Distant Place: Tower Hamlets Flashcards
Tower Hamlets borough is in……London and has a population of
East London
300,000
The borough is bordered to the east by the river…..
River Lea
Before it was populated in 43AD by the Romans, the boroigh was built on
Marshland
The area’s geology is
Impermeable clays and alluvium
This has allowed the underground to be built deep beneath the Thames with few leaks
The London Docklands established London as
A global port, giving it the international power to then develop into the financial center
Tower Hamletis …. miles frkm the coast
42 miles away
In the 1700s, ………Huguenot refugees came to Tiwer Hamlets and established……..thanks to tjeir skills in….
50,000
‘Weaver Town’
Skills in fabric making
When Jewish refugees moved from Eastern Europe, they built or converted …… synagogues
40 synagogues, making this one of the kargeat Jewish populatuons in Europe at the time
In the 1970s, many………came fleeing the……….Liberation War
Bangladeshi refugees fleeing the Bangladeshi LE
The most recent arrival of immigrants have brought…….to Tower Hamlets
Sub Saharan Africans brininng African Wax Fabrics to Spitalfields
In the 2016 EU referendum, Tower Hamlets voted……% in favour of…….
67.5% to remain
An article in the Daily Mail commenting on the BBC report titled ‘the Last Whites of the East End’ on cockney culture showed that some white residents felt…………
felt ‘overwhelmed’ by immigration and are moving to Essex to ‘live with their own kind’
……………migrants have moved to Tower Hamlets in the last……….years
70,000
15 years
in the 1960s and 1980s, the London Docklands gradually closed down because:
bigger ships could not reach the upper river
up to 2000, there was …..km2 of brownfield site at the London Docklands
21 km2
