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Tourist attractions in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets

  • Tower BridgeBy the late 1870s, London's East End had swelled to include nearly 40% of the city's population. This demographic shift created an urgent need for a new…
  • Kingsley HallDoris and Muriel Lester grew up in wealth, yet their grandfather Henry Lester began life as a bricklayer's labourer at age eight.
  • Calvert 22 FoundationNonna Materkova established the Calvert 22 Foundation in 2009. She was an economist born in Leningrad and living in London at that time.