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TENEMENT BUILDING TOWER HAMLETS EAST LONDON 1970S BRITAIN

January 26, 2011
by the gentle author

Peabody Housing Estate. Tower Hamlets Whitechapel east London UK 1975

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  1. steve adams permalink
    August 6, 2014

    I remember visiting my ‘auntie’ Amy in about 1962 to get rid of her upright piano..broken up in the street outside the tenement. All I can recalled is seeing her sitting in a small room at the landing on the first floor I think. She was a silhouette in the darkness and the air of poverty was so evident. Her husband was a docker and she had a wooden leg, we were not rich, we came from Kendal Rise, but this was a good level below us….

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