Editing Bethnal Green (section)

===Post-war===
[[File:Entrance to Bethnal Green Underground Station - geograph.org.uk - 1793740.jpg|thumb|left|Cambridge Heath Road on 25 March 1962.]]
Bethnal Green tube station opened on 4 December 1946 on the [[Central line (London Underground)|Central line]] and is between [[Liverpool Street station|Liverpool Street]] and [[Mile End tube station|Mile End]] on the [[London Underground]], however construction of the Central line's eastern extension into then-[[Essex]] was started in the 1930s, and the tunnels were largely complete at the outbreak of the Second World War although rails were not laid.

The book ''[[Family and Kinship in East London]]'' (1957) shows an improvement in working class life. Husbands in the sample population no longer went out to drink but spent time with the family. As a result, both birth rate and infant death rate fell drastically and local prosperity increased.

The famous criminals, the [[Kray twins]], lived and operated in the area during the 1950s and 1960s, with a gang known as The Firm.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/kray-twins-legend-tom-hardy|title=14 amazing facts about the Kray twins|first=Arya|last=Chopra|date=21 September 2017}}</ref>

[[File:Market, Bethnal Green Road, E2 - geograph.org.uk - 2952362.jpg|thumb|right|Bethnal Green Road and market.]]
[[File:Ezra Street, Bethnal Green.jpg|thumb|left|Ezra Street.]]

In 2015, three children Amira Abase, [[Shamima Begum]], and Kadiza Sultana appeared in the press, referred to as the [[Bethnal Green trio]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/jihadi-bride-shamima-begum-bethnal-green-trio-fled-britain-with-help-from-isis-s-best-female-recruiter-vcvxzrvgj|title=Bethnal Green trio fled Britain with help from Isis's best female recruiter|last=Defence&nbsp;Correspondent|first=Lucy Fisher|date=2019-02-13|work=The Times|access-date=2019-02-23|language=en|issn=0140-0460}}</ref> All three had attended the [[Bethnal Green Academy]] before leaving home to join the [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]] (ISIL).<ref name="TMDUPGIP">{{cite book| last1 = Saltman | first1 = Erin Marie | last2 = Smith | first2 = Melanie | title = 'Till Martyrdom Do Us Part' Gender and the ISIS Phenomenon | date = 2015 | publisher = Institute for Strategic Dialogue | page = 4 |url=http://www.strategicdialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Till_Martyrdom_Do_Us_Part_Gender_and_the_ISIS_Phenomenon.pdf| access-date = 25 February 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160330210121/http://www.strategicdialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Till_Martyrdom_Do_Us_Part_Gender_and_the_ISIS_Phenomenon.pdf | archive-date = 2016-03-30 | url-status = dead }}</ref>