IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Whitechapel Road, LONDON, E1 6TY
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Whitechapel Road, E1 6TY by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (904 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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Whitechapel art gallery
Founded in 1901 to bring great art to the East End, it has a reputation for a progressive outlook and for pioneering exhibitions. In this image (March 2009) the gallery is just about to reopen after a major facelift and expansion into the old Whitechapel library next door.
The original building with its massive, asymmetrically placed arch was by Charles Harrison Townsend, in Arts and Crafts style.
Image: © Natasha Ceridwen de Chroustchoff
Taken: 13 Mar 2009
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The Passmore Edwards Library, Whitechapel
This famous library closed, to much opposition, in the early C21. It opened in May 1892, funded by the philanthropist whose name it bears, and because of the high Jewish population of the area, quickly built up what was the biggest collection of Jewish literature of any British library. It was known as the 'university of the ghetto' owing to its popularity as a meeting place for Jewish intellectuals and Yiddish readers - although by the 1970s Bengali books had become its main stock-in-trade. It has now been incorporated into the Whitechapel Art Gallery next door.
Image: © Natasha Ceridwen de Chroustchoff
Taken: 13 Mar 2009
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7 Whitechapel Road
A 1960s curtain-walled block, now used as the E1 Business Centre, offering "offices, studios and workshop space" in, according to the marketing guff, "a trendy, urban, city-fringe location." From the outside it looks remarkably intact (i.e. unmodernised).
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 12 Mar 2012
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Isaac Rosenberg plaque
Isaac Rosenberg, painter and poet, was born in Bristol in 1890 but his family moved to the East End of London as a child. He was one of a group of young Jewish artists and writers, including David Bomberg, Mark Gertler, John Rodker, Stephen Winstein, Joseph Lefkowitz and Sonia Cohen, who met at the Whitechapel Library where this plaque located. He joined a bantam regiment (for men under 5 feet tall) in order to fight in WW1 and was killed on the Western Front in 1918.
Image: © Natasha Ceridwen de Chroustchoff
Taken: 13 Mar 2009
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View of the Gherkin from Mile End Road #2
This is a view of the Gherkin taken from Mile End Road near Stepney Green tube station, looking south-southwest towards Whitechapel. This was taken a little further west of Image Although it was a nice sunny day, the atmosphere was rather hazy, although this could be pollution, which isn't surprising for such a busy area!
Image: © Robert Lamb
Taken: 26 Jan 2010
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London Cityscape : East Side Of Osborne Street, E1
Image: © Richard West
Taken: 1 Oct 2014
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View of the arch leading from Gunthorpe Street onto Whitechapel High Street
Looking south-southeast.
Image: © Robert Lamb
Taken: 24 Mar 2012
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View of the Walkie Talkie building, the Gherkin and the Cheese Grater from Vallance Gardens
Looking south-southwest.
Image: © Robert Lamb
Taken: 4 May 2014
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