Whitechapel High Street
133 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QA.
Whitechapel High Street & Students' Union accommodates:
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Whitechapel High Street is one of the shortest high streets in London but a major traffic route through the East End. The street was developed during the sixteenth century as part of the main route between London and Essex and was lined with coaching inns that closed when the railways were built in the mid nineteenth century.
Its two best-known buildings, Whitechapel Art Gallery and Whitechapel Library (now closed and soon to be part of the gallery), date from the end of the nineteenth century when great social improvement was made in the area. The outline of where the original white chapel stood has been marked with paving stones in Altab Ali Park.
