London - Urban explorers and commentators

Immmigrants

Introduction

James Greenwood was born in London in the 1840s. As a young man he obtained employment on the Pall Mall Gazette and later The Daily Telegraph. Sympathetic to the plight of the working class, he wrote several articles highlighting the problems of poor housing and public health. An Opium Smoke in Tiger Bay offers a graphic depiction of the underworld of opium consumption in Victorian London. It is taken from In Strange Company: Being the Experiences of a Roving Correspondent, published in 1875.

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