Monday, January 10, 2011

An attic occupied by a family of 10, Bethnal-Green.




Illustrated Times, new series, iii (1863), fromThe Victorian City, Images and Realities, Dyos and Wolff (1973)

2 comments:

Hels said...

Why Bethnal Green? What was it about Bethnal Green that attracted or created such dire misery?

Hermes said...

There were many other areas. But my Mother lived here just before WW2 and it was still a very depressed area. I photographed the cemetary a few years ago and many young graves.