East End 1900s - 1930s DVD clip

The East End in 1900 - a world of cobbled streets and thick fog. Thousands of Londoners live in cramped, sooty tenements. Their homes are lit by gas and infested with lice.

Amidst this dire poverty is a close-knit community defined by resilience, kindness and humour.

Children play in the streets and the men crowd to the dock gates for work.

From the match factories of Bow to the hop fields of Kent, see how London's East End lived in the years before the Second World War.

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[VirgLondon2]

What wasn't mentioned in this, the building caught fire and churchill stopped the fire brigade from going in and letting them burn. Yep, things were very different back then, now it would be negotiators and police snipers

[RoN1S]

Haha 2 latvians taking holding off an army. Latvian power!! noob brits :D

[JollyRodders]

Britain used to take in the unwanted from other countries back then too. Anarchists and Jews. The only difference was that the next generation fitted in and were regarded as British.

[baterijuSkabe]

there were only two Latvians in that building, holding off most of london`s police force.

[itkapatanka]

priceless... thanks!