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Limehouse Causeway

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Limehouse Causeway was the heart of Limehouse Chinatown. The area was known as the “Cantonese Quarter” as many of the early Chinese migrants that settled here were from Canton and southern China. Limehouse Causeway was an alley of Chinese stores and cafés and much smaller in size. There were also lodging-houses for the Chinese migrants, which were often run by English women. Limehouse Causeway was widened during 1934, which resulted in a number of businesses, alleys and side streets being wiped out. This was part of a then ongoing 'slum clearance', as Limehouse and Poplar (Pennyfields), were notorious for their

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