Over the years the street has been the location of various notable buildings and organisations:
The Garrick Theatre, opened 27 December 1830. It was destroyed by fire in November 1846, then rebuilt and opened again as The Albert and Garrick Amphitheatre in 1854. Renamed the Royal Albert Theatre in 1873. Demolished in the 1880s.[2]
The Leman Street Police Station, built on the site of the Royal Albert Theatre and opened in 1891. It was associated with the Whitechapel murders and the Cable Street riots.[3]
In 2002, Trees for Cities, the national urban tree charity, planted over a dozen silver birch, rowan and ornamental pear trees along Leman Street as part of the Whitechapel Street Tree project, which sought to increase tree canopy cover in this area of Tower Hamlets.
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