LONDON

Among the nerves of the world, C.R.W. Nevinson, 1930

LONDON’s GROWTH 1851 2.5 million inhabitants

London’s first underground: 1863

Fleet street….1890

THE WEST END : the theatre Londoners could attend one of the growing number of theatres that were popping up across London’s urban sprawl, particularly in the West End. 

London’s East End in Victorian times

Opium dens “It is a wretched hole... so low that we are unable to stand upright. Lying pell-mell on a mattress placed on the ground are Chinamen, Lascars, and a few English blackguards who have imbibed a taste for opium.” So reported the French journal 'Figaro', describing an opium den in Whitechapel in 1868.

A Victorian serial killer…..

Crime in the East end…. Crime, immorality, drunkenness and violence... Gangs, prostitutes and robbers.... Unlit alleys that, by the late 19th century, had become known as ‘The Abyss’. late summer and early autumn of 1888: Jack the Ripper carried out a series of murders on Whitechapel prostitutes. He was never caught