When researching the East End, the first thing I found was an article explaining the characteristics of the place.
London’s East End has always had a dark side. On the surface, we imagine chirpy Cockney boys and flower girls, playfully peppering their sales patterns with rhyming slang. But beneath as you continue digging deeper you see a sinister side that isn't visible through naivitee, one of overcrowding, poverty, violent crime, grimy industry and social unrest. This is the East End that emerged in the Victorian Age and that lingers still in the popular imagination.
As the British Empire expanded under Queen Victoria, so did trade and heavy industry. In 1827, the new St Katherine Docks opened, and with it, the need for large numbers of dock workers. There was no shortage in the East End. Alongside a swelling local population, the area had long attracted immigrants fleeing political unrest and religious persecution: most notably, Jews and the French. Between 1870 and 1914 they were joined by thousands of Jewish settlers from Poland, Romania and Russia who fled to England to escape hardships.
The elegant Huguenot houses of Spitalfields were divided up into tiny, inadequate dwellings, and even newly-built housing soon became over-crowded and run down. Wages were pitiful, thanks to unscrupulous employment practices such as casual labour and piecework. Disease was evident : in 1866, a cholera epidemic swept the East End, killing 3,000 people.
Those who could claw their way above the poverty line soon moved out – aided by the arrival of the railways – leaving behind the highest concentration of the poor and underprivileged anywhere in London.
London’s East End has always had a dark side. On the surface, we imagine chirpy Cockney boys and flower girls, playfully peppering their sales patterns with rhyming slang. But beneath as you continue digging deeper you see a sinister side that isn't visible through naivitee, one of overcrowding, poverty, violent crime, grimy industry and social unrest. This is the East End that emerged in the Victorian Age and that lingers still in the popular imagination.
As the British Empire expanded under Queen Victoria, so did trade and heavy industry. In 1827, the new St Katherine Docks opened, and with it, the need for large numbers of dock workers. There was no shortage in the East End. Alongside a swelling local population, the area had long attracted immigrants fleeing political unrest and religious persecution: most notably, Jews and the French. Between 1870 and 1914 they were joined by thousands of Jewish settlers from Poland, Romania and Russia who fled to England to escape hardships.
The elegant Huguenot houses of Spitalfields were divided up into tiny, inadequate dwellings, and even newly-built housing soon became over-crowded and run down. Wages were pitiful, thanks to unscrupulous employment practices such as casual labour and piecework. Disease was evident : in 1866, a cholera epidemic swept the East End, killing 3,000 people.
Those who could claw their way above the poverty line soon moved out – aided by the arrival of the railways – leaving behind the highest concentration of the poor and underprivileged anywhere in London.
Reading this made me think of the East End as a really dangerous place and quite unpleasant to live in.
During the Victorian age, the East End was known as the melting pot of cultures. It attracted lots of immigrants. As the trade industry expanded, the need for dock workers rose, and these were found in the East End because the population was high. The houses in the East End were tiny, over crowded and run down. This part of London hd the highest concentration of the poor and underprivileged, leading to a rise in crime, violence, prostitution and gangs.
During WW2, the East End was targeted because the area was a centre for imports and storage of raw materials for the way. The effect of intense bombing encouraged evacuation of children and women, By the end of the war, the East End was badly battered, with large areas depopulated.
Now the East End is home to a number of attractions such as Brick Lane, Old Spitalfields market and various art galleries. In 2012 it was home to the Olympics and Paralympics, the idea was to leave a legacy of new sports facilities, housing and industrial and technical infrastructure that will help regenerate the are.
Banana Nyte is a social enterprise which is campaigning to tackle child obesity in the East End. It does this by showing local schools how to create their own healthy eating campaigns using digital media. Banana Bytes has also had celebrity endorsement by the likes of Rakesh Nair, a chef who showed his cooking skills to children and mums in Poplar's Woodmore Primary School.
http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/news/education/celebrity_chef_rakesh_ravindran_uses_banana_bytes_to_fight_east_end_s_child_obesity_1_3835420
In the fifth tale, domestic abuse makes an appearance, there is an organisation called The Retreat, in the East End working to prevent this from happening. Recently they have received a grant of £75, 250 which will be used to support bilingual services, including a hotline counsellor, logic advocate and general counsellor.
In the fifth tale, domestic abuse makes an appearance, there is an organisation called The Retreat, in the East End working to prevent this from happening. Recently they have received a grant of £75, 250 which will be used to support bilingual services, including a hotline counsellor, logic advocate and general counsellor.
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