Aldgate
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Aldgate was a gate in the former defensive wall around the City of London. The gate gave its name to Aldgate High Street, the first stretch of the A11 road, that takes that name as it passes through t
Print of the Aldgate, around 1609
Yorkist defenders sally from Aldgate, 1471
Aldgate House, Bethnal Green, around 1808
Aldgate Pump, at the junction of Aldgate, Leadenhall Street and Fenchurch Street
Whitechapel
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Whitechapel is an area in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London, England. It is in East London and part of the East End. It is the location of Tower Hamlets Town Hall and the borough town centre
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…the former gate is also usually included. Immediately east of Aldgate High Street the road becomes known as Whitechapel High Street as it enters the Whitechapel area of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The stretch of Whitechapel High Street extending as far as Gardiners Corner, and including Aldgate East…
Entrance to Whitechapel station
Whitechapel High Street, and St Mary Matfelon, in 1905
The London Hospital, Whitechapel in 1753. The Whitechapel Mount stands immediately to the right (west).
Plaque commemorating King Edward VII, with the inscription "erected with subscriptions raised by Jewish inhabitants of East London 1911"