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| Picture No | 10222062 |
| Date | 1863 |
| Description | A weaver's garret in Bethnal Green 1863 |
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This is a garrent at No. 10 Hollybush place in Bethnal Green in the East End of London. A weaver and his family live in this one room which is kept as clean as possible in the midst of the squalor and decrepitude of the building and its surroundings. Proprietors like the one in the picture felt no urgency to clean up the area and continued to extract extortionate rents from the poverty-stricken tenants.
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| Source | Engraving in ‘The Illustrated London News’, 24 October 1863, page 424 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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