Two years in the making, The East End Then and Now depicts the changing scene from Aldgate to Leytonstone and the River to Whipps Cross. All the major incidents are covered complete with detailed maps — the Ratcliff Highway murders; the sinking of the Princess Alice; the Albion disaster; the Sidney Street siege; the Battle of Cable Street; the Bethnal Green tube shelter disaster — and they are set amidst the wider story, all presented through fascinating 'then and now' comparison photographs linking past with present. These pages bring the East End's history alive. It was here that the suffragette movement was born and where the great Victorian philanthropists first began their good works . . . and it was here that Jack the Ripper stalked his victims in the dark and foggy streets of the last century. The East End was the first area of Britain to suffer from massed bombing, heralded by the daylight raid on Black Saturday in September 1940, and the place which later saw the rise and fall of the Krays.

COMPLETE CONTENTS

• INTRODUCTION
• THE WAY IT WAS - THE RECOLLECTIONS OF A POPLAR BOY - Early Days, Home Life, School Life, Charlie Brown - and others, The Ship Cleaners, A Good Pull-up for Carmen, Food, Glorious Food, Local Shops, Bikes, roads and farm carts, Fire! Fire!, Toshing, Entertainment, The River and Raleigh Park, West to the City, Friends, Clubs and Christmas, Games and Festivals, Sports, Music Hall, The Imperial Theatre, Buses, Trams and Horses, Funfairs, 'Uncle's', Winter Evenings, Home Pride, Down the Markets, Wash-day, Comics, Holidays and Hopfields, War, Found Drowned - or Drunk, Limehouse Central School, Jack Cornwell VC, Air raids, Upper North Street School, Religion and the Workhouse, The Silvertown Explosion, The Woolwich Ferry, Bereavement, The Farrier, The Road to School, Chinatown, Armistice, George Lansbury and 'Poplarism', Into the Working World
• SPITALFIELDS, ALDGATE AND WHITECHAPEL
• THE RATCLIFF HIGHWAY MURDERS
• THE RIVER
• WORST DISASTER - THE PRINCESS ALICE
• THE DOCKS - St Katharine's, Execution Dock, London, Wapping, Shadwell, Limehouse, West India, Docklands, Millwall
• TUNNELS UNDER THE THAMES - Wapping, Blackwall, Rotherhithe
• THE DOCKS CONTINUED - East India, Toll Houses, Royal Victoria, Royal Albert, City Airport, King George V
• THE ALBION - The Thames Iron Works
• THE WHITECHAPEL MURDERS - Emma Smith, Martha Tabram, Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catharine Eddowes, Mary Jane Kelly, Alice McKenzie, Lydia Hart?
• THE PHILANTHROPISTS - William Booth, Frederick Charrington, Reverend Samuel Barnett, Dr Barnardo, Angela Burdett-Coutts, Clara Grant
• PARKS - Victoria, West Ham, Wanstead Flats
• WHITECHAPEL - Salvation Army, Pearlies
• THE ANARCHISTS - The Anarchists' Club, The Tottenham Outrage, The Houndsditch Murders, The Sidney Street Siege
• WHITECHAPEL TO STRATFORD - London Hospital, Mile End Road, The People's Palace, Bow Road
• THE SUFFRAGETTES
• STRATFORD - Bow Bridge, High Street, The Martyrs, The Broadway, Theatre Royal, Sparrows Can't Sing
• ALONG THE ROMFORD ROAD - Forest Gate, Upton Lane, Green Street, East Ham
• WEST HAM - The Abbey, Plaistow
• LEYTON - Railways, Stratford Works, Leyton High Road, Lea Bridge Road
• LEYTONSTONE - High Road, Road Safety, Harrow Green, Maryland Point
• THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND AFTER - The death of Arthur Lovell, Silver Jubilee, The Coronation, Slum Clearance
• SIR OSWALD MOSLEY AND THE BATTLE OF CABLE STREET
• THE SECOND WORLD WAR - Prologue, The Munich Crisis, Air Raid Precautions, Evacuation, Hitler's Secret Weapon, First bombs on the East End, East London's defences
• BLACK SATURDAY - The Prime Minister visits the East End, Agate Street School
• THE WAR ON THE EAST END - Churchill's East End tour, The East End's Battle of Britain casualty, The 'Wednesday', Royal Visit, The 'Dead End Kids' and Hermitage Wharf, Trinity School crash, Street Fighting Training Area, Shelters
• THE BETHNAL GREEN TUBE SHELTER DISASTER
• It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow
• THE WAR CONTINUES - The 'Baby Blitz', Invasion preparations, V1 Flying Bombs, V2 rockets, Middlesex Street, Hughes Mansions, VE-Day
• THE POST-WAR YEARS - The Election, The New Towns, Prefabs, The 1940s
• BOMB DISPOSAL - THE LEGACY - Captain Michael Blaney, Valetta Grove, Beckton Gasworks, The Billingsgate Bomb, Post-war UXBs in East London, The 1950s
• THE KRAYS - Vallance Road, Crime in the East End, The Regal Billiard Hall, The Double R Club, Wellington Way Social Club, Police deaths in East London, The Kentucky Club, The Blind Beggar, The Mitchell Killing, The McVitie Killing
• EAST END ROUND-UP - Teddy Boys, George Davis, Ronan Point, West Ham Stadium, Traditional Food, Whitechapel Bell Foundry, East End Personalities