Bethnal Green is an area in East London. It is in the borough of Tower Hamlets, in London, United Kingdom.[1]
History
Bethnal Green has a wide history. It was the place where over 150 people lost their lives in the underground. This was the worst civilian casualty number in the whole of World War II.[2]
Bethnal Green Media
The wards of the Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green. The Borough corresponded very closely to the area of the Hamlet and later Parish of Bethnal Green.
The Bethnal Green Mulberry, at the former London Chest Hospital.
Bethnal House Lunatic Asylum. A notorious 'private madhouse' from 1727, variously known as Wright's House, The Blind Beggar's House, and Kirby's Castle.
Slum children in bed, Bethnal Green, 1900–1910
Slum street in Bethnal Green, circa 1900
Plaque to the 1943 disaster
Cambridge Heath Road on 25 March 1962.
Bethnal Green Road and market.
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