Poverty and Philanthropy in Victorian East End

Photo taken by Marathon.

My number is 07815009191. Please call rather than text if you are running late.

MEET 10.45 for tea Costa Coffee 275 Whitechapel Rd, London E1 1BY
or just outside at 11.15 for the start of the walk.

We're out east today starting in Whitechapel and finishing at Stepney Green.

From one of London's oldest hospitals where we look at some very basic preparations for surgery in the 1700s, to the role it played in the life of the Elephant Man.

We visit the People's Palace which sought to bring education to the workers at the end of the 19th century, great mansions from earlier times when this was a very desirable area even for East India Company directors and the church of St Dunstan's where one of the country's first vegan is buried in its ancient churchyard.

We'll see the Kray's favourite pub and find out why it's called the Blind Beggar, the site of the legendary siege of Sidney Street and where General Booth made his name as saviour of the poor and head of the Salvation Army and the Charrington's owner and his seeing the right path. There's even social housing of all shapes and sizes and splendind water fountains.

The cost of the walk is £12. You can pay cash on the day or to my account sort code 09 01 28 account 75471878.