Turn right and take the first left turning into the hospital campus. You are now in Turner Street. Head past the Royal London Dental Hospital on your left. Stop outside the entrance to the Garrod Building, which is the old London Hospital Medical College. You may be able to enter the Garrod Building. Continue through the double doors into the hall and stop by the staircase where you can see the portrait of Frederick Treves on the first landing to your left. If you look at your app screen now you can see the portrait.

 In 1785, the first purpose-built Medical College in England opened. In its first century it had trained many notable doctors and surgeons such as John Langdon Down (who classified Down’s syndrome) and Thomas Barnardo (founder of the children’s charity). The College kept an extensive collection of specimens as part of the pathology and anatomy museums. Former curators of the collection include Frederick Treves and Thomas Horrocks Openshaw. Joseph was first taken to this building in 1884 and studied by Treves who was interested in his condition. Joseph’s skeleton is still part of the collection today but only accessible to researchers who have an interest in medical humanities, the genetics of Proteus syndrome (believed to be Joseph’s condition) or the changing social attitudes to disability.

Leave the Garrod building and retrace your steps, walking back up Turner Street to the junction with Whitechapel Road. Stop here and look across to the shops on the other side of Whitechapel Road.

From the corner of Turner Street and Whitechapel Road, turn right to walk along the front of the old Royal London Hospital building. Find a place to stop and begin part 3.

THE OLD LONDON HOSPITAL MEDICAL COLLEGE (GARROD)BUILDING

Museum located in former church crypt which tells the story of England's largest voluntary hospital from 1740 and the history of healthcare in London's East End.

THE OLD LONDON HOSPITAL MEDICAL COLLEGE (GARROD)BUILDING

The Royal London Hospital Museum