Slum housing

A 'court' in Whitechapel, east London. Many poorer families lived in courts such as this one, sharing a toilet and water-tap with many others. Over 80% of Whitechapel's housing stock in 1900 consisted of courts, alleys and tenement houses.

Published in W. Evans-Gordon, The Alien Immigrant in England (n.d., c.1902) Courtesy of Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives