It is thought the slum house was one part of a wider courtyard dating back to the mid-1800s, but much of this was demolished in the 1930s. Both Leicester Civic Society and the city’s ...
THE UK’s ‘sweatshop village’ has become a ‘ghost town’ after fast fashion outlets feeding our addiction to cheap clothes ...
The much-loved BBC drama Father Brown, now in its 12th series, continues to enthral its dedicated viewers. Birmingham-born ...
Located a stone's throw from Leicester Square and Covent Garden ... It was right in the middle of one of London's most famous slums. READ MORE: London's oldest bus route that has remained unchanged ...
Leicester Square is never mentioned ... of time in Borough and sets the climax of Oliver Twist in the Bermondsey slums, but he rarely strays far from the river. Holmes and Watson, by contrast ...
Dickens rechristened St Olave's as St Ghastly Grim because of its skeletal gateway, while Arthur Morrison rebadged the Old Nichol slum as The ... second Chinatown near Leicester Square, the ...
Sack the board,' they called to those in the directors' box. When Fabio Carvalho completed the rout two minutes from time, Leicester's players argued among themselves. When the final whistle blew ...
Poor people in vast city slums across the Global South are burning plastic to cook their food, warm their homes and boil water for hot showers. Waste plastic is plentiful and highly flammable.