I walked back up New Road, the heart of old Whitechapel and was struck, as ever, by its proximity to the high-rise City, but that it retains an entirely different and still unmodernised character:-
New Road (1)
I walked back up New Road, the heart of old Whitechapel and was struck, as ever, by its proximity to the high-rise City, but that it retains an entirely different and still unmodernised character:-
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Great images and juxtaposition. Like Whitehorse Lane, I guess New Road may have been constructed to connect Whitechapel to the docks, not least as it is the continuation of Cannon Street Road, and Whitechapel was a centre for foundries (as you have documented in almost 100 posts). However, today New Road is also the heart of drug distribution in Whitechapel, according to a former policeman neighbour of ours.
My copy of Laurie’s New Plan of London(1827) has the whole of the thoroughfare from Whitechapel High Street to Cable Street labelled as Cannon Street Road. Is this an anomaly ?