Club Row, Shoreditch, East London
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Image: © Dr Neil Clifton Taken: 13 Feb 2008
Looking northwards towards Arnold Circus from the junction of Club Row with Old Nichol Street. In Victorian times, this area was one of London's most notorious slums, inhabited, according to Alan Jackson, almost entirely by criminals. It was all cleared away before 1900 and the area was rebuilt.