After their wedding, the couple went to live in a pawnbroker ’ s shop at 1 Commercial Road, Whitechapel.

Out of the 29 stations served, 10 have separate Hammersmith & City line platforms that are wholly or almost wholly below ground, all in cut-and-cover, while those at Paddington, Edgware Road, Farringdon, Barbican and Whitechapel are in cuttings, or under train-sheds but below street level.

Bermondsey had been host to London's first railway, from Spa Road, as part of the London Bridge to Greenwich line, and the junction of lines from Croydon and Kent at South Bermondsey, the Brunel's Rotherhithe foot-tunnel was converted into part of the East London Railway with original connections from Liverpool Street Station via Whitechapel to New Cross and New Cross Gate.

This included parts of both Cambridge Heath and Whitechapel ( north of the Whitechapel Road ) being more associated with the post code and administrative simplicity than the historic districts.

Whitechapel's heart is Whitechapel High Street, extending further east as Whitechapel Road, named after a small chapel of ease dedicated to St Mary.

Whitechapel High Street and Whitechapel Road are now part of the A11 road, anciently the initial part of the Roman road between the City of London and Colchester, exiting the city at Aldgate .< ref >< cite >' Stepney: Communications ', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 11: Stepney, Bethnal Green ( 1998 ), pp. 7 – 13 accessed: 9 March 2007 </ cite ></ ref > In later times travellers to and from London on this route were accommodated at the many coaching inns which lined Whitechapel High Street.

Others joined his Christian Mission, and on 7 August 1878 the Salvation Army was formed at a meeting held at 272 Whitechapel Road .< ref >< cite > 1878 Foundation Deed Of The Salvation Army accessed 15 February 2007 </ cite ></ ref > A statue commemorates both his mission and his work in helping the poor.

Part of Charles Booth ( philanthropist ) | Charles Booth's poverty map showing Commercial Road in Whitechapel 1889.

The " Elephant Man ", Joseph Carey Merrick ( 1862 – 1890 ) became well known in Whitechapel — he was exhibited in a shop on the Whitechapel Road before being helped by Dr Frederick Treves ( 1853 – 1923 ) at the Royal London Hospital, opposite the actual shop.

Whitechapel Road was the location of two 19th century theatres: ' The Effingham ' ( 1834 – 1897 ) and ' The Pavilion ' ( 1828 – 1935 ; building demolished in 1962 ).

The premises at Stepney consisted of two large houses near Whitechapel Road.

After touring the East Midlands, Merrick travelled to London to be exhibited in a penny gaff shop on Whitechapel Road which was rented by showman Tom Norman.

The shop on Whitechapel Road where Merrick was exhibited.

Nevertheless, he exhibited Merrick in the back of an empty shop on Whitechapel Road.

The shop on Whitechapel Road was directly across the road from the London Hospital, an excellent location, as medical students and doctors visited the shop, curious to see Merrick.

Not long after Merrick's last examination with Frederick Treves, the police closed down Norman's shop on Whitechapel Road, and Merrick's Leicester managers withdrew him from Norman's care.

Ever since Joseph Merrick's days as a novelty exhibit on Whitechapel Road, his condition has been a source of curiosity for medical professionals.

By then, Tom Norman's shop on Whitechapel Road had been closed, and the Elephant Man had moved on.

There are buildings located at Minories, Jewry Street, Central House, Moorgate, Whitechapel High Street, Calcutta House, Commercial Road and Goulston Street.

The town itself is made up of areas such as Moorend, Whitechapel, Whitcliffe, Moorbottom, Moorside, the Marsh and Rawfolds.

The locomotives were originally numbered between 35 and 84, and most were given names of London boroughs or other areas of local importance which were served by the LB & SCR suburban trains they were built to operate ( such as Whitechapel, Surrey and Thames ), and indeed also after areas around Brighton itself, such as Kemp Town.

In 1911 a plan evolved to build an underground railway 6½ miles long from Paddington to Whitechapel serving the main sorting offices along the route ; even then, traffic congestion was causing unacceptable delays.

Pepys was born in Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, London on 23 February 1633, to John Pepys ( 1601 – 1680 ), a tailor, and Margaret Pepys ( née Kite ; d. 1667 ), daughter of a Whitechapel butcher.

The concept of a fish restaurant was introduced by Samuel Isaacs ( born 1856 in Whitechapel, London ; died 1939 in Brighton, Sussex ) who ran a thriving wholesale and retail fish business throughout London and the South of England in the latter part of the 19th century.

In 1882 the Met extended its line from Aldgate to a temporary station at Tower Hill, the District completed its line to Whitechapel and on 6 October 1884 the temporary station was replaced with a joint station and the inner circle was complete.

From October 1900 additional capacity was offered by a wagon lift, carrying two ten-ton wagons, from the Great Eastern coal depot at Spitalfields to a siding on the ELR near Whitechapel station.

In 2005 funding was announced for the East London Line Extension which would extend the existing line from Whitechapel tube station bypassing Shoreditch tube station ( which closed in June 2006 ) and creating a new station titled Shoreditch High Street at the site of the old Bishopsgate Goods Yard which was demolished in 2004.

The church's earliest known rector was Hugh de Fulbourne in 1329 and around 1338 it became the parish church of Whitechapel, called, for unknown reasons, St Mary Matfelon.

In 1797 the body of the sailor Richard Parker, hanged for his leading role in the Nore mutiny, was given a Christian burial at Whitechapel after his wife exhumed it from the unconsecrated burial ground to which it was originally consigned.

The ring of bells was cast by Whitechapel Bell Foundry of London, and presented as a gift by the American Friends of St David's Cathedral.

Damon Albarn was born on the 23rd March 1968 in Whitechapel in East London, to Keith and Hazel Albarn.

The only true replica, uncracked, of the Liberty Bell cast as the original at Whitechapel foundry in England, was dedicated by actor John Wayne in September 1960 in association with Sally and Nadine Woods fight against muscular dystrophy.

Bailey was a Seventh Day Baptist, admitted 1691 to a congregation in Whitechapel, London.

Formerly placed in the steeple of the Pennsylvania State House ( now renamed Independence Hall ), the bell was commissioned from the London firm of Lester and Pack ( today the Whitechapel Bell Foundry ) in 1752, and was cast with the lettering ( part of Leviticus 25: 10 ) " Proclaim throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.

The Whitechapel Foundry, still in business today, takes the position that the bell was either damaged in transit or was broken by an inexperienced bell ringer, who incautiously sent the clapper flying against the rim, rather than the body of the bell.

Located east of Aldgate, outside the City Walls and beyond official controls, it attracted the less fragrant activities of the city, particularly tanneries, breweries, foundries ( including the Whitechapel Bell Foundry which later cast Philadelphia's Liberty Bell and London's Big Ben ) and slaughterhouses.

Whitechapel remained poor ( and colourful ) through the first half of the 20th century, though somewhat less desperately so.

Commercial Street is a road in Tower Hamlets, east London that runs north to south from Shoreditch High Street to Whitechapel High Street through the East End district of Spitalfields.

Aldgate was the eastern-most gateway through London Wall leading from the City of London to Whitechapel and the East End of London.

The Whitechapel and Bow Railway allowed through services of the Metropolitan District Railway to operate through West Ham to Upminster from 1902.

From the beginning various railway companies provided services through Whitechapel including the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway ( LB & SCR ), the London, Chatham and Dover Railway ( LC & DR ) and the South Eastern Railway ( SER ).

When, in 1913, the tracks of the ELR were electrified it ended services to the MDR station and extended its ELR service through Whitechapel to ( then the terminus of the line but now closed ) The change of service took place on 31 March 1913.

It runs from Swanfield Street in the northern part of Bethnal Green, crosses Bethnal Green Road, passes through Spitalfields and is linked to Whitechapel High Street to the south by the short stretch of Osborn Street.

Winding through fields, the street was formerly called Whitechapel Lane but derives its current name from former brick and tile manufacture, using the local brick earth deposits, that began in the 15th century.

The A11 passes through Whitechapel, past Whitechapel tube station and the Royal London Hospital.

The Whitechapel and Bow Railway opened in 1902 and allowed through services of the Metropolitan District Railway to operate over the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway tracks to Upminster, which became the eastern terminus.

The Whitechapel and Bow Railway opened in 1902 and allowed through services of the Metropolitan District Railway to operate to Upminster.

In the later 1960s and through the 1970s, the critical importance of the Whitechapel Gallery was displaced by newer venues such as the Hayward Gallery, but in the 1980s the Gallery enjoyed a resurgence under the Directorship of Nicholas Serota.

Although Whitechapel was an impoverished area and violence there was common, these murders can be linked to the same killer through a distinctive modus operandi.

It is an audio tour that leaves from the Whitechapel Library, next to the Whitechapel tube stop and snakes its way through London's East End, weaving fictional narrative with descriptions about the actual landscape.