Whitechapel to Limehouse Basin
Cable Street, a music hall built in 1858, and the water that used to carry the city. Walked and written by the editor. https://walkwalk.org/london/walks/whitechapel-to-limehouse

1. Whitechapel Gallery
Free, ambitious, and reliably showing something that matters. Start here before the walk gets industrial.

2. Cable Street mural
The 1978 mural on the side of St George's Town Hall commemorates the Battle of Cable Street. It's enormous and still powerful.

3. Wilton's Music Hall
The oldest surviving grand music hall in the world. If they're open, have a drink in the Mahogany Bar; even if not, walk round the exterior.

4. Shadwell Basin
An old dock, now ringed with low-rise brick housing and a sailing club. Walk the perimeter; it's flat and brief.

5. Limehouse Basin
End at the basin. Narrowboats, modern flats, a pub or two. The Grapes on Narrow Street is a three-minute walk if you want the Dickensian one.

Whitechapel to Limehouse Basin