Boundary Street Estate, 1989
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Boundary Street Estate, 1989
Image: © Christopher Hilton Taken: 4 Jun 1989
Long before the artists and creative types moved into Hoxton and Shoreditch; the area now (2013) looks considerably more spruce. The Boundary Street Estate, one of London County Council's earliest housing estates, was opened in 1900 on the site of the Jago, one of London's most notorious slums.
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Image Location
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51.525408
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