Bethnal Green

Bethnal Green is an area in East London. It is in the borough of Tower Hamlets, in London, United Kingdom.

Bethnal Green
London borough	Tower Hamlets
Ceremonial county	Greater London
Region	London
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LONDON
Postcode district	E1, E2
Dialling code	020
Police	Metropolitan
Fire	London
Ambulance	London
EU Parliament	London
London Assembly	City and East
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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.

Bethnal Green Media

• The former Bethnal Green Town Hall

• 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.

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  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.

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  Slum children in bed, Bethnal Green, 1900–1910

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  Slum street in Bethnal Green, circa 1900

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  Plaque to the 1943 disaster

• Entrance to Bethnal Green Underground Station - geograph.org.uk - 1793740.jpg

  Cambridge Heath Road on 25 March 1962.

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  Bethnal Green Road and market.