East End of London

The East End of London, known locally as the East End, generally means the area of central London, England, east of the medieval walled City of London and north of the River Thames. It is poorer and is cheaper to live in than the West End, so it has had many immigrants over the years, including Huguenot, Irish, Jews, Germans and more recently Bengalis.

East End Of London Media

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  Dorset Street, Spitalfields, photographed in 1902 for Jack London's book The People of the Abyss

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  The River Lea at Stratford, with the Olympic Stadium under construction in June 2011

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  Aldgate Pump: the symbolic start of the East End

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  The extramural eastern wards of Bishopsgate Without and the Portsoken.

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  The Tower of London was the administrative and geographic cornerstone of the Tower Division

• London in 1300: development is mainly limited to the walled area.

• The first Bethlem (or Bedlam) Hospital, outside Bishopsgate, beside the Deepditch, a part of the Walbrook river.

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  Ogilby & Morgan's 1673 map of London. The East End is developing beyond Bishopsgate and Aldgate and along the river – it is separated from the other extramural suburbs by Moorfields

• The East End in 1741–5, as depicted on John Rocque's Exact Survey of the city's of London Westminster ye Borough of Southwark and the Country near ten miles round. London is expanding, but there are still large areas of fields to the east of the City.

• 1882 Reynolds Map of the East End. Development has now eliminated the open fields shown on the earlier map.