Globe Town
Globe Town is an area southeast of Bethnal Green in East London. It is in the borough of Tower Hamlets, in London, United Kingdom.
Globe Town can be described as being east of the rest of Bethnal Green.[1] It features a parade of shops, several social housing estates (primarily high-rise) and Bow Post office.
Large metal statues of globes were built as part of a Tower Hamlets council scheme known as "Tower Hamlets' Neighbourhoods", trying to build a sense of community in poorer areas of London's East End.
The area centres on Roman Road, providing access to neighbouring Bethnal Green and Bow, with many bus routes between these bigger neighbourhoods stopping in Globe Town.
South of the main area are a primary school and pedestrian and cycle access towards Queen Mary University Of London.
Globe Town 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.
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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