Victorian London's Spitalfields Slum - A History of East End Poverty

Spitalfields was a notorious Victorian London slum, with dark and dangerous courts and alleys. Here, in the late 1800s, the poor lived in dilapidated houses, alongside criminals. But there were also silk-weavers that clung hopelessly to a withering handicraft. It is these people that were the last vestiges of a time before the decent into dystopia. This is the story of the economic decline in their trade, which goes some way to revealing why the fortunes of Spitalfields and its residents declined.
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CC BY - A mechanical Jacquard loom, three-quarter view with spectators, Hospital for Poor French Protestants title page, Samuel Byles, The New Hospital for French Protestants Victoria Park, Ragged school Whitechapel, The sweating system weaving by Wellcome Collection; Silk on a loom close-up, Tying thread on loom CU, Weaving silk focus pull, Traditional silk weaving by Videvo.com
CC BY-SA - Bundesarchiv Bild 183-Z1012-315, Heimarbeit am Webstuhl by German Federal Archive; French Hospital Rochester by Tim Rawle; Hungarian-made jacquard silk weaving machine in the Goldberger Textile Collection in Budapest by Elkágyé; Spitalfields Fournier Street - garret silk-weaving workshops by John Sutton via geograph.org.uk; Weaving demonstrated on a historic loom in Leiden by Shani Evenstein; The Ten Bells Spitalfields by Robin Webster via geograph.org.uk
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