Garland Globe | 1907-03-09 | Page 4 | Bethnal-Green

Bethnal-Green. Bethnnl-dreen, whoso lawless stato has just ber- revealed ' -foro tho po-lico po-lico commission, seems, in tho pnst, to havo boon as Idyllic a spot as its rural-sounding name Biigposts, accird-lng accird-lng to tho London Chronicle "By conch," wrote Popys, in Juno, 1C63, "to Bodnall Groen to Sir V. Illdor's to dinner. din-ner. A lino merry walk with tho ladles alono after dlnnor in tho garden; gar-den; tho greatest quantity of strawberries straw-berries I over saw, and good. This very house wns built by tho blind beggar beg-gar of Dothnal-Oreen, so much talked of and Bang In ballads " Rcadars of Porcy's "Hollques" will recall re-call that famous Blind Beggar "That daylyo sits begging for charltlo, "He Is tho good father of pretty Bes-seo." Bes-seo." It Is a far cry from Pepy's strawberry-growing days to Matthow Arnold's Ar-nold's "squalid streets of Botbnal-Green Botbnal-Green I"