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)
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2 comments:

  1. HelsJanuary 11, 2011 at 12:38 AM

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

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  2. HermesJanuary 11, 2011 at 8:34 AM

    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.

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