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Description: | John Curtis (b 1929) grew up in the East End in the 1930s and 1940s. Here, in conversation with Nancy Langfeldt-Flory of Bishopsgate Institute, he recalls Spitalfields as it was in his childhood. In particular, he describes the area around his home in Flower and Dean Street. Flower and Dean Street had been one of the most notorious slums in London in the late-Victorian period, with two victims of the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888 having lodged there. Although it was substantially cleared and re-developed after this, it remained home to some of the poorest people in London. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | Bishopsgate Institute | Subjects: | Environment Migration and Citizenship Communities Cityscape Home and Family | Temporal: | 2008 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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