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BETHNAL GREEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 830 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GREEN , an eastern See also:metropolitan See also:borough of See also:London, See also:England, bounded N. by See also:Hackney, E. by See also:Poplar, S. by See also:Stepney and W. by See also:Shoreditch. Pop. (1901) 129',680. It is a See also:district of poor houses, forming See also:part of the See also:area commonly known as the " See also:East End." The working See also:population is employed in the making of match-boxes, See also:boot-making, See also:cabinet-makingand other See also:industries; but was formerly largely devoted to See also:silk-See also:weaving, which spread over the district from its centre in See also:Spitalfields (see STEPNEY). This See also:industry is still maintained. The Bethnal Green museum was opened in 1872. It contains exhibits of See also:food and See also:animal products, formerly at See also:South See also:Kensington, entomological collections, &c.; and various See also:loan exhibitions are held from See also:time to time. The Museum also housed the See also:Wallace collection until the opening of See also:Hertford See also:House, and the pictures now in the See also:National Portrait See also:Gallery. It stands in public gar-See also:dens; there are several other small open spaces; and some 7o out of the 217 acres of See also:Victoria See also:Park are within the borough. See also:Close by the park there stood, until the 19th See also:century, a house believed to have belonged to the notorious See also:Bishop See also:Bonner, the persecutor of Protestants in the reign of See also:Mary; his name is still attached to a See also:street here. Among institutions are the missionary See also:settlement of the See also:Oxford House, founded in 1884, with its See also:women's See also:branch, St See also:Margaret's House; the See also:North-Eastern See also:hospital for See also:children, the See also:Craft school and the See also:Leather See also:Trade school. The See also:parliamentary borough of Bethnal Green has two divisions, each returning one member.

The borough See also:

council consists of a See also:mayor, 5 aldermen and 30 councillors. Area 759.3 acres.

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We are looking to find any records of the Scots kirk in Bethnal Green where we believe our family were baptised, married or their funerals occurred. They had come from Scotland about 1630 from we believe Kintyre but we do not know for how long this church existed. The first Alexander in the area was almost certainly a horseman carrying the goods of James VI of Scotland, by now James I of England. Andrew Alexander
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