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Introduction to Chinese London www.cityultima.com/Chinese

By the late 19th century, London had two small Chinese communities in the East End. Chinese sailors from Shanghai had settled in Pennyfields in Poplar. In Limehouse Causeway, another group associated with southern China had settled. Virtually all were single men, some of whom married British women.

By 1914, there were around 30 businesses and 300 people living in these small East End communities. Limehouse and Pennyfields became known as 'China town', and many of its inhabitants made a living through running laundries. In 1937, the first Chinese school opened in Pennyfields......

London's modern Chinese community is concentrated in three boroughs: Westminster, Barnet and Southwark; but there is talk of establishing a new Chinese business and cultural quarter in East London as part of the 'Thames Gateway' regeneration.

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China Town in London http://www.cityultima.com/ChinaTown 

The area in which this new Chinatown would stand had an interesting history: one that stretched back to the terrible Great Fire of 1666 in which London was destroyed by flame. In the aftermath, attention turned west of the old city to the area of present-day Soho which was then mostly farmland with a prime location near the three royal palaces of Westminster, Whitehall and St. James. The area of modern-day Chinatown was a military training ground where soldiers drilled with pikes and primitive muskets.

In 1677, Lord Gerrard, the owner of the area, gave permission to a developer named Nicholas Barbon to build houses on the military ground. Barbon completed Gerrard Street in 1685 and then acquired the adjoining land on the east side from Lord Newport. Here, he built more houses and a livestock market, complete with a market hall and slaughterhouse which stood on the site of the present-day Newport Court. more... ChinaTown covers Shaftesbury Avenue, Gerrard Street, Wardour Street, and Rupert Street as well as Little Newport Street.

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