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  Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Bethnal Green
Bethnal Green Road is a wide street; Cambridge Road, through which it passes, is a good thoroughfare; and even Green Street, into which it runs on its way to a bridge leading to the Roman Road of Bow, is not unpleasant.
Bethnal Green is very patient; it endures a lot of misery in silence.
It is the lungs of Bethnal Green, the resting place for the weary, the playground of children; without it conditions would be intolerable.
www.casebook.org /victorian_london/bethnalgreen.html   (3817 words)

  
  Stepney Areas:Bethnal Green
Bethnal Green was one of only two parishes (the other in Liverpool) to have churches dedicated to all of the twelve apostles.
Comment was made of Bethnal Green in 1848 regarding the 'enormous number of dwellings which have been constructed in defiance of every law and principle on which the health and lives of the occupants depend.' Water was only supplied at low pressure for 2 hours three times a week.
It may be remarked that the worst parts of Bethnal Green are not those inhabited by weavers, and that wherever the weaver is found, his general appearance, and the tidiness of his poor room, offer a striking contrast to those of many of his neighbours.
website.lineone.net /~fight/Stepney/bethnal.htm   (725 words)

  
 Bethnal Green - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bethnal Green is an area in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in the East End of London.
By the end of the nineteenth century, Bethnal Green was one of the poorest slums in London.
In the fictious videogame The Getaway, Bethnal Green is presented as the hub of cockney gangster activity.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bethnal_Green   (704 words)

  
 Bethnal Green - LoveToKnow 1911
BETHNAL GREEN, an eastern metropolitan borough of London, England, bounded N. by Hackney, E. by Poplar, S. by Stepney and W. by Shoreditch.
It is a district of poor houses, forming part of the area commonly known as the "East End." The working population is employed in the making of match-boxes, boot-making, cabinet-making and other industries; but was formerly largely devoted to silkweaving, which spread over the district from its centre in Spitalfields (see Stepney).
Among institutions are the missionary settlement of the Oxford House, founded in 1884, with its women's branch, St Margaret's House; the NorthEastern hospital for children, the Craft school and the Leather Trade school.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Bethnal_Green   (289 words)

  
 Bethnal Green in 1871
The authorities of Shoreditch or Bethnal Green ought to see that the back wall of the timber-yard is built of sufficient height and thickness to prevent such another accident as the last.
The Bethnal Green vestry ought to take a walk round this quarter, and see whether its condition will have any effect on stirring them into action; but these last-named places are beauty itself compared with other unmentionable localities, where the "social evil" and the small-pox are killing bodies and damning souls together.
The many small furniture workshops and timber-yards on all sides of Bethnal Green and Shoreditch are another element of danger, and ought to lead to the perfectness of an efficient and ever-ready fire-brigade for the district.
www.doc.ic.ac.uk /~cjh/woodhurst/bethgn1871.html   (2328 words)

  
 Bethnal Green and Bow (UK Parliament constituency) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bethnal Green and Bow is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Bethnal Green North, Bethnal Green South, Bow East, Bow West, Mile End and Globe Town, St Dunstan’s and Stepney Green, Spitalfields and Banglatown, Weavers, Whitechapel.
Bethnal Green and Bow was one of only two constituencies in the country to have any sort of pro-Conservative swing.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bethnal_Green_and_Bow   (701 words)

  
 Bethnal Green Workhouse and Poor Law Union
In January 1866, Bethnal Green was the subject of one of a series of articles in the medical journal The Lancet investigating conditions in London workhouses and their infirmaries.
Despite all these complaints, Bethnal Green was placed in the best of The Lancet's three categories of workhouse, as regards sick care provision, an indication of how bad conditions were in establishments in the other two classes.
In 1867, the Bethnal Green Guardians reported that conditions at Mitcham were unsatisfactory — the children were not clean and tidy, and not enough was being done to find work or apprenticeships for the older boys.
users.ox.ac.uk /~peter/workhouse/BethnalGreen/BethnalGreen.shtml   (4706 words)

  
 Bethnal - AOL Music
Bethnal Green is an area in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in the East End of London.
Bethnal Green and Bow is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Bethnal Green map Bethnal Green is an eclectic neighbourhood, with a lively mix of cultural diversity, markets, eating places, museums and parks.
music.aol.com /artist/bethnal/15791/main   (118 words)

  
 Cleaning Services Bethnal Green E2
Bethnal Green is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in the heart of London's East End.
Bethnal Green is 3.3 miles (5.3 km) north east of Charing Cross.
By the end of the nineteenth century, Bethnal Green was one of the poorest slums in London.
www.anyclean.co.uk /cleaning-services-bethnal-green-e2.html   (689 words)

  
 A brief history of Bethnal Green.
Green Street (renamed Roman Road in the 1950’s) showed buried artifacts from the period, when the Central Line was being excavated in the late thirties.
citizens built their large mansions around the green, and over the centuries it went from pleasant countryside to the filthy overcrowded slums of the Victorian era, full of poverty and disease.
Where once there were a few dwellings and large houses built by the wealthy around the green, now there now began the building of many smaller houses; houses that would be home to the vast influx of weavers that arrived from outside and would eventually dominate the area.
barryoneoff.co.uk /html/history.html   (773 words)

  
 EoLFHS Parishes: Bethnal Green
St John on Bethnal Green was built in 1826-1828 to a design by Sir John Soane and was extensively repaired in 1871 after a fire.
It was in the Bethnal Green Registration District and, in 1965, became part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Baptisms from 1931 and marriages from 1958 are with the incumbent vicar of St Matthew's, Bethnal Green.
www.eolfhs.org.uk /parish/bethnal_green2.htm   (176 words)

  
 Tower Hamlets On-Line: Bethnal Green
By 1550, the name had altered to 'Blethenhale Grene' and had become Bethnal Green by the seventeenth century.
The 'Green' at the heart of this settlement is now Bethnal Green Gardens.
Bethnal Green is well known for many things including the tube station disaster of the Second World War, different housing schemes and the popular working class sport of boxing.
www.raggedschoolmuseum.org.uk /thol/bethnal/intro.shtml   (96 words)

  
 Bethnal Green: Communications | British History Online
Another route, passing through the centre of Bethnal Green as a broad stretch of waste, was mentioned in the 1580s as the highway from Mile End to Cambridge Heath and Hackney.
Lanes that became the eastern end of Old Bethnal Green Road and of Three Colts Lane, and which both led from Cambridge Road, existed in 1388 as New Lane and Water Lane respectively.
78) Control of Bethnal Green Road lay with the parish, which removed the tollgate in 1827, until 1833 when it was assumed by the commissioners.
www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=22742   (2415 words)

  
 BBC Homeground - Bethnal Green Tube Disaster
During the Second World War Bethnal Green was the epicentre of the Blitz with day after day of heavy bombing raids.
When the alert sounded at 8.17 pm, hundreds of people left their homes to run to the Bethnal Green Tube Station shelter where 500 people were already sheltering.
There was only one narrow entrance to Bethnal Green Tube and there were no crush barriers.
www.bbc.co.uk /homeground/archive/2003/bethnal-green-tube-disaster.shtml   (1186 words)

  
 London My Bethnal Green
We are moving to London in September 2006 from Canada and are hoping to move to the Bethnal Green area.
Bethnal Green itself is not the most picturesque place, but it has a young feel to it- It is so diverse- you may hear 10 different languages in the space of 30 mins- it's great for bargains, the daily market on Bethnal Green rd being an example.
Bethnal Green is as safe as anywhere in London, I've lived there for 18 years without any real trouble.
www.movethat.co.uk /London/My/Bethnal_Green   (2447 words)

  
 The Bethnal Green Museum
The Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood has something to interest children and adults alike.
The Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood is free of charge.
It is easy to reach by underground on the Central Line to Bethnal Green Station, or by Bus 8 from Victoria Station to Bethnal Green Station.
www.georgianhousehotel.co.uk /london_hotels/bethnal_green_museum_of_childhood.htm   (178 words)

  
 BBC - London - TV & Radio - Inside Out - Bethnal Green Disaster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
During the Second World War Bethnal Green was the epicentre of the Blitz with day after day of heavy bombing raids.
On March 3 1943, 173 people lost their lives in the worst civilian tragedy of the war at Bethnal Green Tube station.
When the alert sounded at 8.17 pm, hundreds of people left their homes to run to the Bethnal Green Tube Station shelter where 500 people were already sheltering.
bbc.co.uk /london/insideldn/insideout/series3/bethnalgreen_tube.shtml   (1172 words)

  
 EoLFHS Parishes: Bethnal Green St Matthews
St Matthew's is the original parish church of Bethnal Green although it isn't one of the ancient churches of the East End.
It was formed from part of the parish of St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney, in 1746, due to the increase in population.
From 1837 onwards, St Matthew's parish was itself divided into a number of smaller parishes and the Bethnal Green Registration District ended up with 17 churches in its area, the majority of which were built between 1840 and 1845.
www.eolfhs.org.uk /parish/bethnal_green0.htm   (196 words)

  
 In Bethnal Green (1911)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
But this menagerie in a back-yard in Bethnal Green is a surprise to the stranger, even as it appears in the slack season.
I have said that one of the staple industries of Bethnal Green is bootmaking, and the trade is carried on in great warehouses and by small makers innumerable.
Leaving the old Spitalfields weaver of Bethnal Green, and passing through a street of industrial dwellings now occupied principally by Russian Jews who work at the bootmaking and furnishing trades, we enter a house in a street which has also fallen to the alien immigrants.
www.mernick.co.uk /thhol/simsbg.html   (3366 words)

  
 cSPACE - Bethnal Green Hospital Campaign
The Bethnal Green Hospital in East London served the local population as a community hospital valued for its continuity of care and accessibility to local residents.
Dan Jones, local social worker, artist and member of the Bethnal Green Hospital campaign committee, approached them with the offer of the hospital as a 'workshop location', hoping for a resulting video production that could be used by the campaign.
This provided the kind of opportunity the artists had been looking for that would allow them to use their practice in a way that could support issues of relevance to local people.
www.cspace.org.uk /cspace/archive/bethnal/bethnal_arch.htm   (623 words)

  
 Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood, London E2 : tourist information from TourUK
In the 20th century its collection had an increasing number of items related to childhood and in 1974 Bethnal Green became a toy museum.
Bethnal Green's collection includes toys, teddy bears, dolls, puppets, model trains, toy soldiers, games, costumes and nursery furniture.
Although Bethnal Green primarily a toy museum there are exhibits illustrating the social history of childhood.
www.touruk.co.uk /london_museums/bethnalgreenchildhood_museum1.htm   (277 words)

  
 Bethnal Green Flat or House to rent or buy. Bethnal Green Flats or Houses to rent or buy. Letting, Sales and Estate ...
The Lettings and Estate Agents in Bethnal Green, E2, are not shown in any preferential order, except by Premium Agents.
If you want to move to Bethnal Green as an executive or a professional with a family, or you are a student finding somewhere for the first time.
It may be the Bethnal Green property you have been looking for.
www.net-lettings.co.uk /locations/locationview.asp?Area=Bethnal_Green   (665 words)

  
 Discover Tower Hamlets - Area guides - Bethnal Green
Bethnal Green is an eclectic neighbourhood, with a lively mix of cultural diversity, markets, eating places, museums and parks.
Bethnal Green is also well known for its Museum of Childhood.
Bethnal Green is both famous and infamous - for being the birthplace and early home of Carry On film star Barbara Windsor, but also for being the stamping ground of East End gangland bosses Ronnie and Reggie Kray - dubbed the Kray Twins.
www.towerhamlets.gov.uk /data/discover/data/bethnal-green/index.cfm   (334 words)

  
 Tower Hamlets On-Line: Bethnal Green
He was the champion of England and lived in Paradise Row, Bethnal Green.
In Bethnal Green, amateur-boxing contests took place at many youth groups.
Today, many important fights are held at the York Hall in Bethnal Green, where competitors have included Chris Eubank.
www.raggedschoolmuseum.org.uk /thol/bethnal/boxing_2.shtml   (584 words)

  
 Victoria Park - Bethnal Green.
I think this may be due to the recent influx of fairly wealthy 'green' bicycle riding couples moving into the area, which can't be a bad thing.
A little girl was drowning in the boating lake and a dog rescued her at the cost of his own life.
Every child in Bethnal Green was brought up with this story, but as I got older I learned the truth behind them.
barryoneoff.co.uk /html/victoria_park.html   (1299 words)

  
 Bethnal Green estate agents - estate agents in Bethnal Green, Mile End, Shoreditch, Stepney, Stepney Green, London, ...
Bethnal Green estate agents - estate agents in Bethnal Green, Mile End, Shoreditch, Stepney, Stepney Green, London, E2,E12,E13,E15,E14,E3,E2 Estate and Letting Agents : Established 1992
Exit Bethnall Green Tube station from the Bethnal Green Road exit, walk under the bridge and we are about 100 yards down on the right hand side.
Covering:Bethnal Green, Bow, Whitechapel, Stepney, Hackney, Clapton, Spittlefields, Mile End, Shadwell, Wapping, Limehouse, Docklands & City, Aldgate, Shoreditch, Dalston, Stoke Newington, Clerkenwell.
www.spencers-property.co.uk /standard/bethnal_green_office.htm   (122 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Politics | Election 2005 | Gloves come off in Bethnal Green
Bethnal Green is sometimes described as the spiritual home of British boxing.
Miss King said a vote for Respect in Bethnal Green and Bow was a vote for the Tories, citing a recent Conservative win in a local council by-election.
Mr Galloway insisted it was a "two horse race" between himself and Miss King, dismissing the other two candidates as being "not fit to be members of parliament".
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4432191.stm   (997 words)

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