Whitechapel
Whitechapel is a district in the East End of London, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
It is 3.4 miles (5.5 km) east of Charing Cross and roughly bounded by Petticoat Lane and Mansell Street to the west, Fashion Street to the north, Cambridge Heath Road and Sidney Street to the east and The Highway to the south.
Because the area is close to the London Docklands and east of the city, it has been a popular place for immigrants and the working class. The area was the centre of the London Jewish community in the 19th and early 20th century. It is where the infamous Whitechapel Murders by Jack the Ripper took place in 1888. In the latter half of the 20th century, Tower Hamlets (including Whitechapel) became the largest settlement for the British Bangladeshi community, particularly on and around Whitechapel Road and Brick Lane.
Whitechapel Media
The daughter-parishes of Stepney that would evolve into the modern London Borough of Tower Hamlets
The parish of Whitechapel formed three of the wards, in the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney, which was created in 1900.
The London Hospital, Whitechapel in 1753. The Whitechapel Mount stands immediately to the right (west).
Part of Charles Booth's map of Whitechapel, 1889. The red areas are "middle-class"; the black areas are "semi-criminal".
Colour key for Booth's poverty map. 
Plaque commemorating King Edward VII, with the inscription "erected with subscriptions raised by Jewish inhabitants of East London 1911"
Royal London Hospital's old building from the 18th century
Home Secretary Churchill observing the events at Sidney Street, Whitechapel
Whitechapel was the centre of British Jewish refugee immigrant life in the late 19th and early 20th century.
