Whitechapel

See COVE Master Map entry: https://editions.covecollective.org/place/whitechapel

In London Labour and the London Poor edition:

Phase 1

Of the Publishers and Authors of Street-Literature. (Volume 1): "The present street literature printers and publishers are, Mrs. Ryle (Catnach’s niece and successor), Mr. Birt, and Mr. Paul (formerly with Catnach), all of the Seven Dials; Mr. Powell (formerly of Lloyd’s), Brick-lane, Whitechapel; and Mr. Good, Aylesbury-street, Clerkenwell. Mr. Phairs, of Westminster; Mr. Taylor, of the Waterloo-road; and Mr. Sharp, of Kent-street, Borough, have discontinued street printing. One man greatly regretted Mr. Taylor’s discontinuing the business; 'he was so handy for the New-cut, when it was the New-cut.'"

Of the Low Lodging-Houses. (Volume 1): "I have slept in a room in Brick-lane, Whitechapel, in which were fourteen beds. In the next bed to me, on the one side, was a man, his wife, and three children, and a man and his wife on the other. They were Irish people, and I believe the women were the men’s wives—as the Irish women generally are. Of all the women that resort to these places the Irish are far the best for chastity. All the beds were occupied, single men being mixed with the married couples. The question is never asked, when a man and woman go to a lodging-house, if they are man and wife."

Of the Street Sellers of Live Birds. (Volume 2): "The price of a canary of an average quality was then from 5s. to 8s. 6d., and a fair proportion were street-sold. At that period, I was told, the principal open-air sale for canaries (and it is only of that I now write) was in Whitechapel and Bethnal-green. All who are familiar with those localities may smile to think that the birds chirping and singing in these especially urban places, were bred for such street-traffic in the valleys of the Rhætian Alps!"

A Visit to the Rookery of St. Giles and its Neighbourhood. (Volume 4): "Here we saw another young man, a burglar, pass by. He had an engaging appearance, and was very tasteful in his dress, very unlike the rough burglars we met at Whitechapel, the Borough, and Lambeth."

Phase 2

Of Cats’ and Dogs’-meat Dealers. (Volume 1)

Of the Publishers and Authors of Street-Literature. (Volume 1)

Meeting of Thieves. (Volume 1)

Of the Children Street-Sellers of London. (Volume 1)

OF THE WOMEN STREET-SELLERS. (Volume 1)

Of the Trades and Localities of the Street-Jews. (Volume 2)

Of the Pursuits, Dwellings, Traffic, etc., of the Jew-Boy Street-Sellers. (Volume 2)

Bone-Grubbers and Rag-Gatherers. (Volume 2)

Of the “Pure”-Finders. (Volume 2)

An Old Street Showman. (Volume 3)

The Whistling Man. (Volume 3)