It is difficult to imagine Mile End Road as anything other than a built up, busy road which forms part of the urban sprawl of East London. However, if you were to take stroll through Whitechapel, east towards Mile End Road during the late 1700s, you would’ve breathed country air and seen open fields, interspersed with farms and rural hamlets.
The East End Maternity Hospital, 384-398 Commercial Road
If you are familiar with the BBC series Call the Midwife, you will know the importance of The Maternity Home, in the fictional location Kenilworth Road, East London. Like the series, the real East End Maternity Hospital was founded to combat the problem of severe overcrowding and insanitary conditions in the Stepney area.