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Aug 11, 2024 · The area was home to a Chinese community as early as the 1880s (Image: Getty) Everyone knows the buzzing Chinatown of today in Soho. But actually, the original Chinatown was all the way on the other side of London in Limehouse.
Before Chinese restaurants, businesses and communities laid down roots in the West End, London’s first Chinatown could be found on the other side of the city. Key location: Tower Hamlets. Key dates: 1800s & early 1900s. A Chinese restaurant in Limehouse Chinatown.
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.
Dec 31, 2016 · Like many other immigrants, settling in the East End create myths – China Town in Limehouse was no different. The mid-1880s had seen the beginnings of a Chinatown in London, with the establishment of grocery stores, eating houses, meeting places and Chinese street names in the East End.
London’s Chinatown is pretty much contained between Shaftesbury Avenue to the north and Lisle Street to the south, just a few metres away from the tourist trap of Leicester Square. However at the start of the 20th century, the East End neighbourhood of Limehouse was home to a very different Chinatown, a much seedier place preceded by tales of ...
Oct 1, 2006 · In popular novels, films, hit records and sensationalist newspaper reports, Limehouse (and its ghostly double ‘Chinatown’) figured as one of the most exciting and dangerous places in Britain. This article explores the Chinese presence in Limehouse and the ways in which it was represented.
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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.
