4. On the Waterfront
Tasks 4.2

1a. What impression does the artist of Picture G give us of the immigrants arriving at Irongate Stairs?

b. How useful is this source as historical evidence?

2.What can we learn from Sources K and L about:

a. why people from West Ham were emigrating?

b. which countries they were going to?

c. what sort of people were going?

d. what was provided for them when they arrived?

3. Do you think that Sources I, K and L taken together are very reliable/fairly reliable/not very reliable sources for historians studying emigration from West Ham? Give reasons for your answer.

4. What thoughts and feelings do you think the people in Pictures G and I might have had at the time shown in the pictures?