education
E R Robson, 1887
Queens' Building, Mile End Road, E1 4NS
Explore the hidden corners of Queen Mary University's Mile End campus. Guided tour includes the former People’s Palace (1887), Mile End Hospital (1858), and the Sephardic Jewish cemetery (1733), the UK’s second oldest Jewish cemetery.
Stepney Green, Bethnal Green, Limehouse, Whitechapel
Whitechapel
339, 205, 25
The tour will begin outside Queens' Building (E1 4NS) and will end at BLOC, in the ArtsOne building (E1 4PD)
Seating will be available at the end of the tour.
Walking tour
12:00–14:00
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Walking tour
14:30–16:30
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Queen Mary University’s Mile End campus has evolved around pre-existing religious, welfare and educational buildings and institutions. This tour around the campus offers glimpses into the area’s eighteenth and nineteenth-century social history, in particular the lives of migrants, the working poor and the destitute, via these surviving fragments.
Tour includes:
Queens Building (formerly the People’s Palace, (E.R. Robson, 1887) including the Octagon,
Mile End Hospital (formerly parish workhouse, William Dobson, 1858), Novo Cemetery (1733, extended 1855) - one of only two surviving Sephardic Jewish cemeteries in England.
The tour is led by Professor Nadia Valman and Professor Alastair Owens from Queen Mary University of London. The tour will begin outside Queens' Building and will end at BLOC, Queen Mary's inclusive cinema, arts lab & post-production suite, for refreshments, conversation and some screenings of short films about East London.
