Labour-yard of the Bethnal-Green Employment and Relief Association, in East London. The stagnation of trade which followed on the commercial crisis of 1866, deprived many thousands of the industrious poor of their ordinary means of livelihood. The effort was originated by Angela Burdett-Coutts, grand-daughter of banker Thomas Coutts, daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, richest heiress in Europe, whoses munificent charties in the east of London were well known. Date: 1868