The Whitechapel Bell Foundry was founded in 1570 and is the UK’s oldest manufacturing company
All manner of domestic and exotic creatures including live lion cubs were once for sale at Club Row live animal market
George Orwell spent a few months early in his career living rough in East London. Sixty-five years after the publication of his masterpiece 1984, the East End Review revisits the streets that influenced his writing to see what – if anything – has changed