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London - LABOURING CITY 3: Building Homes
In this episode, we trace how people have been able to find a home in the East End, finding some space for faith and family, however small.
We start in front of Christ Church Spitalfields and end in Hoxton Square. Already in the early 18th century, the establishment was worried that immigrants were believing the wrong thing. By the late 19th, Protestant chapels and terraced houses were being turned into synagogues. But the authorities also had a housing crisis on their hands. The East End is pockmarked by attempts to put it right, from early cottages, through model dwellings and tenements, to London’s first council estate, on the western edge of Bethnal Green. Its 20th-century successors were less generous, more cramped, even as new waves of immigrants arrived, bringing their own culture and faith. Recent years, though, have seen a tide of wealth flow east, public housing moving into private hands, curry houses turned into coffee shops, factories becoming studios, and street art moving onto gallery walls.
Follow the walk on this map: bit.ly/3FZO1xV
And find the full transcript here: bit.ly/3EdhTps
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WRITER AND PRESENTER: Angus Lockyer
PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic