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    Whitechapel is an area in London, England, and is located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.It is in east London and part of the East End.It is the location of Tower Hamlets Town Hall and therefore the borough town centre. Whitechapel is located 3.4 miles (5.5 km) east of Charing Cross.. The district is primarily built around Whitechapel High Street and Whitechapel Road, which extend from the City of London boundary to just east of Whitechapel station.These two streets together form a ...

  2. Whitechapel is a British police procedural, produced by Carnival Films and distributed by BBC Worldwide, in which detectives in London's Whitechapel district deal with murders which replicated historical crimes. The first series was broadcast in the UK on 2 February 2009 and depicted the search for a modern copycat killer replicating the murders of Jack the Ripper.. A second series was commissioned by ITV in September 2009 with the focus on the Kray twins.The first episode of this second ...

  3. Whitechapel: Created by Ben Court, Caroline Ip. With Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davis, Steve Pemberton, Sam Stockman. A fast-tracked inspector, a hardened detective sergeant, and an expert in historical homicides investigate modern crimes with connections to the past in the Whitechapel district of London.

  4. Jun 16, 2020 · The 19th century in Whitechapel was filled with poverty, murder, and destitution, and the first half of the 20th century was no different. In 1902, the American author Jack London, famous for his novels The Call of the Wild and White Fang, moved to Whitechapel in order to experience a life of poverty in London.He then wrote about his experiences in a novel called The People of the Abyss.. In 1911, the Siege of Sidney Street occurred.

  5. Jul 31, 2018 · You wouldn’t know it from visiting Whitechapel these days, but this used to be one of the dodgiest parts of London. Go back in time just a few decades and Whitechapel was the heart of the East End of London, once known for poverty and unsavoury behaviour.

  6. Mar 20, 2019 · Whitechapel Bell Foundry. This famous bell foundry that had been open since 1570 and cast everything from handbells to church bells. Unfortunately, it has been closed since 2017, but you can still stop by and look at the outside of the place where America’s own Liberty Bell was first cast in 1752, Big Ben in 1856, and the Olympic Bell in 2012. The buildings were purchased by a developer who plans to turn the oldest parts of the foundry into a museum, so it will still be worth visiting in ...

  7. Once upon a time, Whitechapel served as the stage on which notorious slasher Jack the Ripper played out his grisly prostitute murders under the cover of late 19th-century London nights.Today, it’s a multicultural hub and has come rather a long way from its overcrowded, dank and dangerous slum days.

  8. Jul 10, 2020 · Most visitors to London miss Whitechapel, an area of East London located near Spitalfields Market and Bethnal Green. There's a lot of history in the streets (especially when it comes to Jack the Ripper), and today the neighborhood is home to one of the city's best art galleries.

  9. Situated smack bang at the heart of London’s East End, Whitechapel is one of the capital’s most vibrant and multicultural districts, steeped in history and brimming with contemporary culture.

  10. Whether it's a Jack the Ripper copycat committing horrific murders in the Whitechapel district of London, or gruesome crimes in the East End prompting a look back at 300 years of history, it's up ...