City's Fringe Offers Edgy Living ; Square Mile Professionals Are Heading for Whitechapel. They Love Its Buzz and the Short Walk to Work
Evening Standard - London › May 18, 2007
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AS A staging post for successive waves of newcomers, Whitechapel has a special place in London's history. Today, the Huguenot silk weavers of the 18th century and the Jewish and Bangladeshi settlers of the 20th are being followed by a new group
young professionals, most seeking affordable homes in a part of the capital where the property market is still in its infancy.See the full content of this document
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City's Fringe Offers Edgy Living ; Square Mile Professionals Are Heading for Whitechapel. They Love Its Buzz and the Short Walk to Work
When Docklands was born in the 1980s, businessmen leapfrogged from the Square Mile to the glittering towers of the Isle of Dogs, leaving the old East End to its own devices. The most important change since then has been the resurgence of living on the City fringe.
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