Audio walking tour of East London

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Audio walking tour of East London

Discover London's historic East End at your own pace with our free audio tour. Let our academic experts bring more than 300 years of east London's fascinating past to life, using your MP3 player or smartphone. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station. With 12 stops, it takes around one hour to complete the route.

Episodes

  1. 08/27/2012

    Altab Ali Park

    Follow Brick Lane (right past Mosque) for 250m (at the end Brick Lane becomes Osborn Street) to Whitechapel Road. Altab Ali Park on the opposite side of Whitechapel Road, between White Church Lane and Adler Street.

    3 min

  2. 08/27/2012

    Artillery Passage

    Follow Artillery Lane round to the right (approximately 130m). Artillery Passage is at the bottom on the right (Alexander Boyd Tailoring shop is on the corner).

    2 min

  3. 08/27/2012

    Brick Lane

    Go up Wilkes Street. Turn right down Princelet Street. Then turn right on to Brick Lane. The Mosque is 30m up on the right-hand side.

    3 min

  4. 08/27/2012

    Christ Church Spitalfields

    Walk to the far end of Brune Street. Turn left onto Toynbee Street and up to Commercial Street. Christ Church is approximately 50m up on the right.

    2 min

  5. 08/27/2012

    Fulbourne Street

    At the East London Mosque cross over Whitechapel Road at the traffic lights, turn right and walk 100m up to the junction of Fulbourne Street (on the left).

    2 min

  6. 08/27/2012

    Huguenot History

    Walk past Christ Church and turn first right down Fournier Street (The 10 Bells Pub is on the corner). Walk to the junction of Wilkes Street (on the left).

    3 min

  7. 08/27/2012

    Jewish Soup Kitchen

    Turn left up Wentworth Street then turn left up Bell Lane. Turn right up Brune Street (opposite the Sainsbury's Local).

    1 min

  8. 08/27/2012

    Liverpool Street Station

    Exit Liverpool Street Station via Bishopsgate West exit (near WH Smith). You will come out opposite Bishopsgate Police Station. Then cross Bishopsgate. Walk to Artillery Lane, which is the first turn on the right after the Woodin's Shade Pub.

    1 min

  9. 08/27/2012

    Lusby's Music Hall

    Continue 200m up Mile End Road, just past Cleveland Way (on the left). The row of Georgian houses are 25m up from the Genesis Cinema (opposite Stepney Green).

    3 min

  10. 08/27/2012

    Mile End

    Continue walking 280m up Whitechapel Road (past the Blind Beggar Pub and junction of Cambridge Heath Road) until it becomes Mile End Road. Mile End Waste is parallel to the shops on the left-hand side (opposite Nandos). The William Booth statue marks the

    2 min

  11. 08/27/2012

    Petticoat Lane Market

    Walk up Artillery Passage. Continue to the top of Widegate Street (past the King's Store Pub). Turn left onto Middlesex Street (opposite the Shooting Star Pub). Continue to the junction with Wentworth Street (on the left).

    2 min

  12. 08/27/2012

    Trinity Almshouses

    The Almshouses are on the left-hand side of Mile End Road (opposite Mile End Waste).

    1 min
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Discover London's historic East End at your own pace with our free audio tour. Let our academic experts bring more than 300 years of east London's fascinating past to life, using your MP3 player or smartphone. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station. With 12 stops, it takes around one hour to complete the route.

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