1. LONDON

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

3. LONDON’s GROWTH 1851 2.5 million inhabitants

5. London’s first underground: 1863

6. Fleet street….1890

7. 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. 

8. London’s East End in Victorian times

9. 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.

10. A Victorian serial killer…..

11. 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