Mile End Road ( Historical ) Mural: East London.
Image by Loco Steve
This mural on Mile End Road was painted back in 2011 by Mychael Barratt, James Glover & Nicholas Middleton and depict historical events and people that lived or visited the area.
Starting on the bottom right and working up the painting from right to left "like a snake"…you can make out the following…
George Bernard Shaw was an early member of the Fabian Society who regularly met on the Whitechapel Rd
William Booth started The Christian Mission and The Salvation
Army on the Mile End Rd
Captain James Cook lived at 88 Mile End Rd when not at sea
Prince Monolulu was a gambling tipster who frequented Petticoat Lane and Mile End Market with his famous call “I gotta horse!”
Frederick Charrington turned his back on his family’s brewery to start a temperance mission. He is here depicted taking a dray horse out of service
Dockers – This is loosely based on the statue of dockers at Victoria Dock
Vladimir Lenin planned the Russian Revolution in Whitechapel
Joseph Merrick also known as The Elephant Man was first publicly exhibited in London in a shop on the Whitechapel Rd across the street from the London Hospital
T V Edwards started the law firm T V Edwards in 1929
Anthony Edwards is the senior partner of T V Edwards. As a young boy he would accompany his uncle on his rounds, carrying his briefcase
Bushra Nasir studied at Queen Mary University and became the first Muslim headteacher of a state school
Mahatma Gandhi stayed at Kingsley Hall in 1931 when he came to London to discuss Indian independence
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II visited the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in 2009
Samuel Pepys frequented the Mile End Rd, as his diary attests
and his mother was the daughter of a Whitechapel butcher
Isaac Rosenberg was a First World War poet and a painter who was one of a group of artists known as The Whitechapel Boys
Mark Gertler was another of The Whitechapel Boys
Edith Cavell trained as a nurse at London Hospital before working in German-occupied Belgium during World War I
Reggie & Ronnie Kray frequented The Blind Beggar.
David Hockney had his first exhibition at The Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1970
Scout This is my dog
Eric Gill’s sculptures grace the New People’s Palace on the Mile End Rd
Gilbert & George live nearby in Spitalfields
Market stalls that line the Mile End Rd
reference to London’s docks
30 St Mary Axe also known as the Gherkin
Christ Church, Spitalfields, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor
House by Rachel Whiteread was a cast of the inside of a house on Grove Rd
The East London Mosque
Clock tower from in front of The People’s Palace
The Royal London Hospital
Guernica by Pablo Picasso was displayed at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1939
The Whitechapel Art Gallery
Blooms, famous kosher restaurant on Whitechapel Rd
The Whitechapel Church Bell Foundry
Trinity Almshouses, Mile End Rd
The first V1 flying bomb or Doodlebug fell in Whitechapel in 1944
