Charting the colourful history of the East End, this book relives all
the major incidents amid then and now photographs. The Ratcliff Highway
murders, the sinking of the Princess Alice, the Albion disaster, the
Sidney Street siege, the Battle of Cable Street and the Bethnal Green
tube shelter disaster are all featured. The philanthropists,
suffragettes, Jack the Ripper and the Krays are other high profile
characters included in this densely illustrated title.