What Was Life Like In Whitechapel?

What Was Life Like In Whitechapel? It was an area of doss houses, sweatshops, abattoirs, overcrowded slums, pubs, a few shops and warehouses, leavened with a row or two of respectably kept cottages. Whitechapel housed London’s worst slums and the poverty of its inhabitants was appalling. What was Whitechapel like in the 1880s? Whitechapel offered