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      • Walk: The Inns of Court
      • Walk: The Square Mile
      • Walk: St. Pauls - Heroes and Executions
      • Walk: The Heart of the City
    • East London >
      • Walk: Tower Hill & Shadwell
      • Walk: Bethnal Green
      • Walk: Sailing to Stepney Green
      • Walk: On the trail of Street Art: Hoxton to Shoreditch
      • Walk: The many faces of Dalston
      • Walk: Walthamstow Village
      • Walk: Spitalfields
    • North London >
      • Walk: Hampstead Village and Heath
      • Walk: Kilburn to West Hampstead
      • Walk: Old Street to Angel
    • South East London >
      • Walk: Bermondsey & Rotherhithe
      • Walk: Borough
      • Walk: Elephant & Castle
    • West London >
      • Walk: Fulham Broadway to Imperial Wharf
      • Walk: Hammersmith
      • Walk: Turnham Green to Chiswick Park
    • South West London >
      • Walk: Barnes Bridge to Fulham Palace
      • Walk: Last stop on the Victoria Line: Bustling Brixton
      • Walk: Richmond - River-views and royal connections
      • Walk: Vauxhall to Battersea
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The East End

_We usually call East London 'The East End'.

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London's first Yiddish theatre, Princelet Street.
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It is the area east of the City of London and north of the Thames.







Since the 17th century immigrants have come to the East End. They include:
  • French Huguenots established a major weaving industry in Spitalfields.  
  • Irish weavers
  • Ashkenazi Jews
  • Bangladeshis, who arrived in the 20th century.





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Hackney Peace Mural, 1985
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The majority of immigrants worked in the clothing industry. They had low wages and poor conditions. In the 18th century, trade unions and workers’ associations were formed. The radicalism of the East End led to the formation of the Labour Party and the vote for women.

A lot of the East End was destroyed during World War Two. Afterwards, new public housing estates were built. More recently, Canary Wharf, the Olympic Park and many other places have changed the East End again.


During the 18th century the Port of London was the largest port in the world. It specialised in luxury goods such as ivory, tobacco, spices, coffee, cocoa, wine and wood. Shipping ended here in 1969 and today, the docks have become expensive apartments.

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Walks in the East End.

A staircase to Bethnal Green

The many faces of Dalston

A place where travellers are welcome: Walthamstow Village

On the trail of street art: Hoxton to Shoreditch

Sailing to Stepney Green


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Mural of Charles Square, Hoxton
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Whitechapel Bell Foundary
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Limehouse Basin (where the Regent's meets the Thames in East London)




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Trinity Almshouses, 1695, built to provide housing for ship's captains or their widows.