Take yourself back 150 years when Whitechapel in East London would have been home to Jewish immigrants escaping religious persecution and economic hardship in eastern Europe.
Thousands would have crammed into ghettos in the area and poverty and malnutrition were rife. Soup Kitchens, like this one on Brune Street, where the Jewish poor would queue for a free bowl of stew and a loaf of bread, would have been a common sight.
The area has always a magnet for immigration, and Jewish people who have long moved out, have been replaced with migrants from Bangladesh, who have in turn made the area their own, opening a multitude of curry restaurants on Brick Lane. Some now call the area ‘Bangla-Town’.
Bangla Town today