Walking Whitechapel with old maps

On Saturday we went on a rather splending guided walk around Whitechapel with "old map man" Ken - the premise is we walk around a modern city using ancient maps to help us find a relationship with the past. It's a wonderful idea which involves you more than just being talked at, and Ken was knowledgeable and engaging... which is just as well because for (most of) this walk we were his only customers!

18th century German church in Alie Street

The Eastern Dispensary in Leman Street

Wiltons Music Hall

St Paul's Mission Room on Wellclose Square and on its last legs

Pigeons on a warehouse built upon a plague pit

Somewhere to go to prove your guns are working

The Whitechapel Bell Foundry - the oldest manufacturing company in Great Britain (sounds of making)

Rowton House