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Building a dream in the garden suburbs
In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.
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How to rehabilitate the concrete jungle
A huge concrete housing estate from the 1960s, now seen as an ecological mistake, is being drastically redeveloped, compounding the environmental errors. Owen Hatherley posits a more creative solution.
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Parks and politics in Brixton’s past and present
Gentrification is creeping along Railton Road, but racial inequality still lingers in memories of the 1980s, and in the continuing lack of green-space access.
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Sharing Nature: Parks for people
Paula Broom’s photograph of Sydney’s Centennial Park shows the complexity and joy we find in urban greenery.
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[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green].
St. Matthew (Bethnal Green, London, England). Parish Council.Date: 1892- Books
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A sermon preached at St. Matthew's, Bethnal-Green, on Sunday, Nov. 12, 1775. By John Wesley, M.A. For the benefit of the widows and orphans of the soldiers who lately fell, near Boston in New-England.
Wesley, John, 1703-1791.Date: [1775]- Books
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Trifles: viz. The toy-shop. The king and the miller of Mansfield. The blind beggar of Bethnal-Green. Rex & Pontifex. The Chronicle of the Kings of England. The Art of Preaching in Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry. The Right of Mankind to do what they will, asserted. With several others, not more considerable. The second edition. By R. Dodsley.
Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764.Date: M.DCCLXXVII. [1777]- Ephemera
Certificate of training / Bethnal Green Hospital.
Bethnal Green Hospital (London, England)Date: [approximately 1930]- Books
Programme of Christmas and new year festivities at the Bethnal Green Military Hospital : by kind permission of the Officer Commanding.
Bethnal Green Military Hospital.Date: 1916