Royal Foundation of St Katharine
The Royal Foundation of St Katharine is a religious charity based in the East End of London. The Foundation traces its origins back to the medieval church and monastic hospital St Katharine's by the Tower, established in 1147, next to the Tower of London.
East end of St Katharine's Church, the chapel of the hospice before its removal in the 19th century
Parish Boundary Marker for St Katharine by the Tower
St Katharine's Church, Regent's Park (now the Danish Church)
The current home of the Royal Foundation of Saint Katharine, Butcher Row, Ratcliff
The East End of London, often referred to within the London area simply as the East End, is the historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London and north of the River Thames. It does not have universally accepted boundaries on its north and east sides, though the River Lea is sometimes seen as the eastern boundary. Parts of it may be regarded as lying within Central London. The term "East of Aldgate Pump" is sometimes used as a synonym for the area.
Dorset Street, Spitalfields, photographed in 1902 for Jack London's book The People of the Abyss
The River Lea at Stratford, with the Olympic Stadium under construction in June 2011
Aldgate Pump: the symbolic start of the East End
The Tower of London was the administrative and geographic cornerstone of the Tower Division
