Unit 27:Task 2A Research

During the war Bethnal green station was used as an air raid shelter during the war, on the 3rd of march 1943, 173 people were killed by the falling station while trying to enter, it still stands today with most of the original design.​

Edith Louisa Cavell a British nurse born in Brussels. At aged 30 she worked at the royal London hospital. November 1914 Cavell was moving British and French soldiers from Belgium to the Netherlands. She was arrested on the 3rd of august 1915 charged with harbouring allied soldiers. On the 12th October 1915 Cavell was 49 years old when she was shot for her crimes.​


Joseph Carey Merrick also known as elephant man was an English man born with severe deformities was exhibited at a freak show as elephant man. On the 11th April 1890 he died in the royal London hospital aged 27.​


Ronald and Reginald born on the 24th of October 1933, were English gangsters feared throughout the east end. The Krays were known for their armed robberies, arson and murders.​ ​The Krays were leaders of an east end gang called the firm, known meeting points of the gang were places like pelliccis a workers café in Bethnal green road.​ ​On the 9th of March 1966 Ronnie Kray had shot George Cornell an associate of a rival gang called the Richardson's. Kray shot Cornell in the head after finding out he had called Ronnie a fat poof.​ ​Both brothers then spent the rest of their lives behind bars. Ronnie dies on the 17th of March 1995 at the age of 61 from a heart attack. Reggie had died on the 1st of October 2000 at the age of 66 from bladder cancer.​

Established in 1974 they create beigels in the traditional Jewish style and the shop produces 7,000 beigels a day.​