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- The old Italianate buildings were replaced by Edwardian architecture embellished with theatrical chinoiserie. Chinatown, like the phoenix, rose from the ashes with a new facade, dreamed up by an American-born Chinese man, built by white architects, looking like a stage-set China that does not exist.
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How did the Chinatown we know and love come about? It took centuries of evolution for the small corner of London to become the epicentre of Asian culture that it is today. Along the way, it was the birthplace of the Post Office, Ronnie Scott’s and the playground of the literary elite.
It was made by Chinese artisans and assembled in London. The gate is in the style of the Qing dynasty. [7] There was a Chinese-style pavilion at Newport Place from the 1980s which was a popular meeting point, but it was demolished in 2016 after more than thirty years, despite protests.
By the late 1960s, Chinatown was truly established as the epicentre of London’s Chinese community – now numbering in the tens of thousands as more and more Chinese workers arrived from the British territory of Hong Kong.
Limehouse had been a major port since medieval times, but it wasn’t till the 19th century that the Docklands saw the most expansion. Among the new developments was the marina now known as the Limehouse Basin, initially called Regent’s Canal Dock when it was built in 1820.
- Leaving Limehouse
- Exotic Ingredients
- Celebrating Chinatown’s Story
The Second World War took its toll on the neighbourhood. Many members of the Chinese community were bombed out of what were, even then, sub-standard Victorian tenements. The docks themselves declined over the following twenty years, put out of business not by Hitler’s bombs, but by changes in the shipping industry. The growth of containerised freig...
Not only did we Brits get a unique taste of (what at the time was mainly) Cantonese cooking, the Chinese community introduced us to such exotic ingredients as noodles; garlic; vegetable oil, soy sauce; chilli and ginger. All of these foodstuffs were a revelation to the British palate of the 50s and 60s, accustomed to bland and grey food – justly cr...
The brilliant work done by a range of community organisations, like the China Exchange, has helped tell the story of Chinatown. However, the contributions of the Chinese community to British history – especially during two World Wars – are not as well-known as they might be. A crowd-funding campaign has been launched recently to help record and pro...
Tracing and mapping a history of the lost architecture and community of London's original Chinatown, with in-depth interviews with some of the elderly displaced.
The initial area of Chinatown was located in the east part of London, where thousands of Chinese sailors settled at the end of the eighteenth century. These had been employed in China. However, for several different reasons, had to live in London.
