Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . -, is anexample. It is formed on a similar modelto that of the Institute for Seamen at a fine frontage and fi\e store_\-s, itsmiles cheerfully on carters, costers, loafers,and wear\^ toilers in Commercial Road surrendered cosh, a specimen of the. FACTORY GIKLS FIGHTING short iron walking-stick easily concealed upa sleeve, and intended to strike down anunwary stranger, hangs in tlie Vicars is an eloquent though silent advocatefor providing cheap and respectable accom-moda
Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . -, is anexample. It is formed on a similar modelto that of the Institute for Seamen at a fine frontage and fi\e store_\-s, itsmiles cheerfully on carters, costers, loafers,and wear\^ toilers in Commercial Road surrendered cosh, a specimen of the. FACTORY GIKLS FIGHTING short iron walking-stick easily concealed upa sleeve, and intended to strike down anunwary stranger, hangs in tlie Vicars is an eloquent though silent advocatefor providing cheap and respectable accom-modation for the night in poor districts. St. James-the-Less, Bcthnal Cireen, has aworking mens hotel which already pa\sa profit of i,ioo a year, and the people ofthis district invest annually i^2,ooo in pro\i-dent clubs. A parish in Shoreditch, describedby newspapers in 1886 as the sink ofLondon, is well known through A Child ofthe Jago, b\ Mr. Arthur Morrison, who livedfor a time on the spot. The Jago, with itsawful record of a mortality four times thatof the Metropolis generally, is gone. On itssite stands Holy Trinity Church and at hand are model dwellings ; but in lirick Lane and other parts of the originalparish the teeming po])ulation makes ithard to realise that any dispersion hastaken place. In Slum-land open hostilityto religion
Size: 1959px × 1276px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublisherlondo, bookyear1902
