Mile End Waste was the East End version of Speakers’ Corner in Victorian times. In the 1860s William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army preached here. Dr Alastair Owens explains Booth’s approach to tackling East End poverty and overcrowding; issues that troubled many social reformers of the day.

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

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Mile End

Mile End

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