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Place in Tower Hamlets:
1. Bethnal Green
2. Blackwall
3. Bow
4. Bow Common
5. Bromley-by-Bow
6. Cambridge Heath
7. Canary Wharf
8. Docklands
9. East Smithfield
10. Fish Island
11. Globe Town
12. Hackney Wick
13. Isle of Dogs
14. Cubitt Town
15. Millwall
16. Leamouth
17. Limehouse
18. Mile End
19. Old Ford
20. Poplar
21. Ratcliff
22. St George in the East
23. Shadwell
24. Spitalfields
25. Stepney
26. Wapping
27. Whitechapel
Historical landmarks:
1. Brick Lane
2. Cable Street - site of the Battle of Cable Street
3. Hawksmoor's Christ Church, Spitalfields
4. Site of two historic Royal Mints
5. Tower of London
6. Tower Bridge
7. Victoria Park
Schools in Tower Hamlets:
Nursery and primary schools:
1. Alice Model Nursery
2. Arnhem Wharf
3. Bangabandhu
4. Ben Jonson
5. Bigland Green
6. Blue Gate Fields
7. Bonner
8. Bygrove
9. Canon Barnett
10. Canary Wharf College
11. Cayley
12. CET Primary School
13. Children's House Nursery
14. Chisenhale
15. Christ Church CofE
16. Clara Grant
17. Columbia
18. Columbia Market Nursery
19. Cubitt Town
20. Culloden
21. Cyril Jackson
22. Elizabeth Selby
23. English Martyrs RC
24. Globe
25. Guardian Angels RC
26. Hague
27. Halley
28. Harbinger
29. Harry Gosling
30. Harry Roberts Nursery
31. Hermitage
32. Holy Family RC
33. John Scurr
34. Kobi Nazrul
35. Lansbury Lawrence
36. Lawdale
37. Malmesbury
38. Manorfield
39. Marion Richardson
40. Marner
41. Mayflower
42. Mowlem
43. Old Church Nursery
44. Old Ford
45. Old Palace
46. Olga
47. Osmani
48. Our Lady RC
49. Rachel Keeling Nursery
50. Redlands
51. St Agnes RC
52. St Anne's RC
53. St Edmund's RC
54. St Elizabeth RC
55. St John's CofE
56. St Luke's CofE
57. St Mary and St Michael RC
58. St Matthias CofE
59. St Paul's CofE
60. St Paul's with St Luke's CofE
61. St Peter's CofE
62. St Saviour's CofE
63. Seven Mills
64. Shapla
65. Sir William Burrough
66. Smithy
67. Stebon
68. Stepney Greencoat CofE
69. Stewart Headlam
70. Thomas Buxton
71. Virginia
72. Wellington
73. William Davis
74. Woolmore
Secondary schools:
1. Bethnal Green Technology College
2. Bishop Challoner Catholic Collegiate Boys
3. Bishop Challoner Catholic Collegiate Girls
4. Bow School of Maths and Computing
5. Cambridge Heath Sixth Form
6. Central Foundation Girls'
7. George Green's
8. Langdon Park
9. Morpeth
10. Mulberry Girls'
11. Oaklands
12. Raines' Foundation CofE
13. St Paul's Way Trust
14. Sir John Cass Foundation and Redcoat
15. Stepney Green Maths and Computing College
16. Swanlea
17. Wapping High School
Special schools:
1. Beatrice Tate
2. Cherry Tree
3. Harpley School and Inclusion Support Centre
4. Ian Mikardo High
5. Phoenix
6. Stephen Hawking
Tower Hamlets
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a London borough to the east of the City of London and north of the River Thames. It is in the eastern part of London and covers much of the traditional East End. It also includes much of the redeveloped Docklands region of London, including West India Docks and Canary Wharf. Many of the tallest buildings in London are located on the Isle of Dogs in the south of the borough. A part of the Olympic Park is in Tower Hamlets; containing the world's biggest McDonald's and the World Square (one of the four different zones of the park). The borough has a population of 254,000, which includes one of the highest ethnic minority populations in the capital, consisting mainly of Bangladeshis.[2] The local authority is Tower Hamlets London Borough Council.
History City of Tower Hamlets: The London Borough of Tower Hamlets forms the core of the East End. It lies east of the ancient walled City of London and north of the River Thames. Use of the term "East End" in a pejorative sense began in the late 19th century,[9] as the expansion of the population of London led to extreme overcrowding throughout the area and a concentration of poor people and immigrants in the districts that made it up.[10] These problems were exacerbated with the construction of St Katharine Docks (1827)[11] and the central London railway termini (1840–1875) that caused the clearance of former slums and rookeries, with many of the displaced people moving into the area. Over the course of a century, the East End became synonymous with poverty, overcrowding, disease and criminality.[12]
The East End developed rapidly during the 19th century. Originally it was an area characterised by villages clustered around the City walls or along the main roads, surrounded by farmland, with marshes and small communities by the River, serving the needs of shipping and the Royal Navy. Until the arrival of formal docks, shipping was required to land goods in the Pool of London, but industries related to construction, repair, and victualling of ships flourished in the area from Tudor times. The area attracted large numbers of rural people looking for employment. Successive waves of foreign immigration began with Huguenot refugees creating a new extramural suburb in Spitalfields in the 17th century.[13] They were followed by Irish weavers,[14] Ashkenazi Jews[15] and, in the 20th century, Bangladeshis.[16] Many of these immigrants worked in the clothing industry. The abundance of semi- and unskilled labour led to low wages and poor conditions throughout the East End. This brought the attentions of social reformers during the mid-18th century and led to the formation of unions and workers associations at the end of the century. The radicalism of the East End contributed to the formation of the Labour Party and demands for the enfranchisement of women.
Official attempts to address the overcrowded housing began at the beginning of the 20th century under the London County Council. World War II devastated much of the East End, with its docks, railways and industry forming a continual target, leading to dispersal of the population to new suburbs, and new housing being built in the 1950s.[12] During the war, in the Boroughs making up Tower Hamlets a total of 2,221 civilians were killed and 7,472 were injured, with 46,482 houses destroyed and 47,574 damaged.[17] The closure of the last of the East End docks in the Port of London in 1980 created further challenges and led to attempts at regeneration and the formation of the London Docklands Development Corporation. The Canary Wharf development, improved infrastructure, and the Olympic Park[18] mean that the East End is undergoing further change, but some of its districts continue to contain some of the worst poverty in Britain.[19]
Media reports in the 2000s and 2010s suggested that the area was becoming Islamised, and that residents were threatened for behaviour not in accordance with what The Daily Telegraph called "fundamentalist Islamic norms". The Telegraph reported in 2011 that since 2007/2008 there had been an 80 percent increase in homophobic crimes in the area,[20] while The Guardian said there had been a 33 percent increase in homophobic incidents between April 2009 – March 2010 and April 2010 – March 2011.[21] Delwar Hussain, writing in The Guardian, suggests that the perpetrators of such crimes are usually Bangladeshi, a group that faced hostility and violence when they first settled in the area.[22] In February 2011 stickers appeared in the area with the message: "Arise and warn. Gay free zone. Verily Allah is severe in punishment."[23] A man was fined for a public order offence in relation to the stickers in June 2011.[24] In 2007 the Centre for Social Cohesion issued a report saying that libraries in the area contained a large amount of extremist Islamist literature.[25] In 2008 councillors were asked by the council's head of democratic services to observe the Ramadan fast during meetings, a request that angered several of the councillors.[26] In early 2013, there were a number of incidents involving a group of Muslim men, dubbed the Muslim Patrol, who tried to enforce Sharia law on members of the public.....Wikipedia >>
