Bidding FOR BEAUTY
In 2005, two terraces of modest late-Georgian houses in Whitechapel, once part of the Royal London Hospital estate, seemed destined for demolition. These small houses were built between 1809 and 1815, for lower-middle-class families. Their first residents included a surgeon who prepared for his day’s work at the hospital here, a sea captain sojourning between passages, a plumber, a shopkeeper and a Chelsea pensioner who surely spent hours at the window watching life pass by in the bustling streets.
These same terraced houses told a rather more forlorn story when they came to Tim Whittaker’s attention. Derelict and
