Whitechapel
Written by the History Prefects,
"On 20th and 22nd March, 2 groups of Year 10 students journeyed to Whitechapel, in the East end of London to learn about the living conditions and issues with crime & policing Victorian England along with information on Jack the Ripper. On both occasions, students were toured by professional tour guides with extreme expertise on the topic.
Starting at Liverpool Street Station, the tour guides led students around the East End and allowing the students to have lunch at Spitalfields market. The tour consisted of visits to areas with large Jewish and Bengali populations, walks down dark, dingey alleys giving students an idea of the areas Londoners had to walk down on a day to day basis. The tour took students down streets where Henry VIII had soldiers train then they viewed former residences housing up to 20 people.
The tour guides frequently pointed out areas of interest like street art, synagogues and other places of worship along with showing students that the money produced within the City of London had no effect on the poverty stricken parts of Whitechapel.
The experts additionally signified areas of crime like “itchy park” named after diseases often transmitted it there and places related to the Ripper murders like residences and crime scene locations."
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