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What was the rookery in Whitechapel?

Flower and Dean Street

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How many people (%) were living in poverty?

37.5%

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x people relied on 200 lodging houses?

8000

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Peabody estate

  • Built in 1881

  • Too expensive for inhabitants

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Where did people work?

  • Bell Foundry

  • Worked in sweated trades

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What was the main workhouse in Whitechapel?

South Grove workhouse

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How many people did the South Grove workhouse hold?

400

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Dr Barnardo orphanages

  • 1870- opened first orphanage for boys

  • 1905- 100 Barnardo homes nationally

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Irish immigrants

  • Settled in 1840s

  • Violence and drunkness common

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Fenians bombed Clerkenwell prison

1867

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Dynamite Saturday

  • 1885- tried to bomb key sites across London e.g Houses of Commons

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By 1888 what % of the population in whitechapel were Jewish?

95%

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When did anarchists from France flee to London?

1871

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SDF founded in Britain

1881

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How many were homeless in Whitechapel?

1000 out of 30,000

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What was the gang in Whitechapel?

Bessabarian

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What was the number of people vs number of houses?

30,079 vs 4,069