Charting the colourful history of the East End, this book relives all the major incidents amid "then and now" photographs. The Ratcliff Highway murders, the sinking of the "Princess Alice", the "Albion" disaster, the Sidney Street siege, the Battle of Cable Street and the Bethnal Green tube shelter disaster are all featured. The philanthropists, suffragettes, Jack the Ripper and the Krays are other high profile characters included in this densely illustrated title.