Features Archives — Whitechapel LDN

Saif Osmani, Save Brick Lane coalition, on Brick Lane

Saif Osmani of the Save Brick Lane coalition. Photo by Christopher Spring, © Social Street CIC

What the Save Brick Lane campaign is really fighting for

April 22, 2022April 22, 2022 Lily Wakeley 95 Views 1 Comment Features 10 min read

Why is the Save Brick Lane campaign fighting the redevelopment of the Truman Brewery? Brick Lane holds a furtive place

A view of the SCT community gardens behind Shoreditch Church.

Campaigns Good causes Local Society

Spitalfields Crypt Trust: using social media to support homelessness and addiction

April 12, 2022April 12, 2022 Gulistan Elidemir 41 Views 0 Comments Features 5 min read

How East End charity Spitalfields City Trust is using social media to stay relevant to GenZ and teach the world

Market stalls along the pavement with the cityscape of London towering behind it, Whitechapel.

Cultural heritage Local Society Whitechapel Market

The history of Whitechapel Road Market and its impending transformation

March 21, 2022April 4, 2022 Gulistan Elidemir 82 Views 0 Comments Features 7 min read

The centuries-old market has been a staple in Whitechapel’s identity. Now, with the opening of the Elizabeth Line in 2022,

People queueing in the snow for a PDSA mobile clinic

People queueing with their pets in the snow for a PDSA mobile clinic. © PDSA Archives

Cultural heritage Local Society

Maria Dickin and the history of the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals

February 20, 2022March 4, 2022 Gulistan Elidemir 108 Views 0 Comments Features 7 min read

One woman overcame all odds, including a World War, to set up the veterinary charity that has now treated over

A black and white photo of the entrance of The George Tavern, Whitechapel.

Buildings & landmarks Cultural heritage Local

The resilient history of The George Tavern and its battle to stay

February 6, 2022February 28, 2022 Gulistan Elidemir 126 Views 0 Comments Features 6 min read

Predating the East End itself, The George Tavern’s centuries-old reign evolved from an inn to one of London’s most important

A painting of the view from the Idea Store, Whitechapel.

'Rooftops over Whitechapel,' © Marc Gooderham

Arts & artists Local Society

Painter Marc Gooderham: pausing the bustling streets of Whitechapel

January 21, 2022January 27, 2022 Gulistan Elidemir 106 Views 0 Comments Features 2 min read

Marc Gooderham’s paintings of Whitechapel and the East End provide a moment of stillness to appreciate our city architecture hidden

The infectious smile of Rahemur Rahman, sitting inside the installation he created with collaborating artists.

Arts & artists British Bangladeshi Local Society

My Home, My Bari: Rebuilding the loss of home through community

December 30, 2021January 5, 2022 Gulistan Elidemir 118 Views 0 Comments Features 6 min read

British-Bangladeshi fashion designer Rahemur Rahman’s My Home My Bari exhibition explores the theme of home, what it means to be

Shot of the Bell Foundry entrance, Whitechapel Road.

This picture depicts a high street shot of the entrance on 32–34 Whitechapel Road. Although the windows are on display, it seems as though the premise is empty, almost as though nothing exists past the door, echoing its consequential end. © John Claridge, 1982

Arts & artists Local Society

Photographer John Claridge: remembering the Whitechapel Bell Foundry

December 10, 2021December 16, 2021 Gulistan Elidemir 147 Views 0 Comments Features 3 min read

Remembering the legacy of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry through photographer John Claridge’s photos taken in 1982 and 2016. The manufacturing

Taj Stores butcher at his work station, cutting up some meat, as he poses for the camera, Brick Lane, Whitechapel.

The warm smile of the Taj Stores butcher Muhammed lights up the room as its neon signs do. © Gulistan Elidemir

Lifestyle Local

A day in the life of Taj Stores butcher Muhammed Khalilur Rahman

November 26, 2021November 26, 2021 Gulistan Elidemir 83 Views 0 Comments Features 3 min read

Working at one of Banglatown’s staple locations, Taj Stores, butcher Muhammed Khalilur Rahman gives us an insight into his working

Arts & artists Local Society

Photographer Syd Shelton on the vanishing East End and what it is becoming today

November 2, 2021November 3, 2021 Gulistan Elidemir 155 Views 0 Comments Features 8 min read

Syd Shelton shares his ‘lifelong commitment’ of trying to ‘reinvent the caricature of East Enders’ through his photographs The streets

A black and white photo of Petticoat Lane Market in history on a busy day in Whitechapel, East London, 1920.

Petticoat Lane Market captured on a busy market day in the 1920s, East London.

Cultural heritage East End Jewish Local Places to visit Whitechapel Market

Petticoat Lane Market – one of the oldest markets in London

October 18, 2021January 12, 2022 Gulistan Elidemir 148 Views 0 Comments Features 4 min read

From the Tudor Times to the bombing of World War II, this is the story of Petticoat Lane Market’s refusal

Local Society

“Like ghosts coming back to life”: An interview with East End historian David Rosenberg

May 21, 2021June 3, 2021 Albert Toth 124 Views 0 Comments Features 7 min read

David Rosenberg is a radical historian whose work focuses on London and the East End. He has a long personal

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