The next fact project is about Tower Hamlets, East London. We have to produce a piece of work for the 'Fairness Commission', recording things about the borough, for example the buildings, the people but also considering the inequalities, perhaps the disparity in the distribution of wealth. I have focused on the buildings and went to visit the Bryant and May Match factory in Bow, which is now apartments. I found it interesting that the reasonably expensive housing used to be a factory where the women who worked there were paid very little, treated badly and were also at risk of serious disease. Although this inequality is related very much to the past, it demonstrates how Tower Hamlets and the people living there has changed.
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