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The Environs of London
… Bethnal Green BETHNAL-GREEN. Bethnal-Green made a parish. THE very populous and extensive parish of Stepney having before suffered some … the art of well speaking and civil conversation, history, constitutions, and maxims of state, and particular …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bethnal Green Building and Social Conditions after 1945 Social and Cultural … Activities BUILDING AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS AFTER 1945. The immediate problem after the war was to house those whose … 24 Mansford, Greenways, 25 Waterlow, and Cranbrook. 26 The history of Bethnal Green since 1945 has been determined by …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bethnal Green Building and Social Conditions from 1837 to 1875 BUILDING AND SOCIAL … 11 At Victoria's accession tradesmen's houses lined all the main roads in the west: Cambridge, Bethnal Green, and … privies in Lamb's Fields and around Virginia Row. 34 A survey of the weaving districts in 1838 and published in 1840 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bethnal Green Building and Social Conditions from 1876 to 1914 BUILDING AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS FROM 1876 TO 1914. 60 The population reached its peak, 129,727, in 1901. 61 … below, church. Booth, Life and Labour: above. W. Besant, Survey of Lond. ix. 614-15. E. Lond. Rec. iv. 30-5. Medhurst, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bethnal Green Building and Social Conditions from 1915 to 1945 BUILDING AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS FROM 1915 TO 1945. 54 The population continued its decline, both because the birth … and local criminals hoping for trouble. 63 The New Survey of c. 1930 classed 80 per cent of the population as …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… HEATH CAMBRIDGE HEATH was an area of gravel spanning the Hackney boundary, between marshland to the east and west which is included in the district described below. … of waste S. of Old Bethnal Green Rd. Gascoyne, Map; Stow, Survey (1720), map between pp. 46 & 47. 1 st Rep. Com. Char. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bethnal Green Charities for the Poor CHARITIES FOR THE POOR As a hamlet of Stepney parish Bethnal Green was a beneficiary of early … Stepney charities, 31 including Prisca Coburn's (1701) and Dame Sarah Pritchard's (1718), and shared in Fuller's, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… A pre-Roman road following a route from Oxford Street and Old Street to Old Ford and Essex crossed Bethnal Green, probably in part along the line of Hackney Road and Old Ford Lane (later Road). 20 … G. Black, Archaeol. of Tower Hamlets [1977], unpag. Survey in Robinson, Hist. Hackney, i. 326. Illus. Lond. News, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bethnal Green Economic History ECONOMIC HISTORY AGRICULTURE. Possibly excepting … than 10 a. each, three with 11-20 a., two with 41-50 a., and one (Treadway, with 61 a.) with more than 50 a. When the demesne was divided and sold a few years later, only one …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… St. George's chapel could be obtained as a schoolhouse for the poor of Bethnal Green. 80 It was, however, apparently … used only for the dissenting academy at Bishop's Hall 81 and the first public school was Parmiter's, built in St. John … who paid 2 d.4 d. a week to be taught book keeping, history, geography, and English besides the elements. I sch., …