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Latest articles from Gary Haines

1913: Clara Grant starts her 'Farthing Bundles' of toys for children of the poor in Bow

1913: ‘Farthing Bundles’ of toys given out to children in Bow in campaign tackling poverty

Our continuing nightly look the East London Advertiser’s 150th anniversary reaches 1913 and the start of the ‘Farthing Bundle’ for the children of the East End’s poor that is to last the next half century. Historian Gary Haines uncovers the story of the ‘Farthing Bundle Woman of Bow’, Clara Grant, who sets up the Fern Street Settlement feeding hungry children, helping to clothe them and creating her famous ‘farthing bundle’ of toys made from recycled bits and bobs…

1900: World's first social housing estate opens... but at heavy social cost to slum-dwellers of The Nichol

ADVERTISER 150: Thousands evicted to make way for ‘showpiece’ Victorian Boundary Estate

1891-1900: We continue our nightly journey through the pages of the East London Advertiser marking our 150th anniversary this month with a look back to 1900 and creation of the world’s first municipal social housing estate, The Boundary in Shoreditch, opened by the Prince of Wales. The LCC scheme gets rid of London’s worst notorious slums, known as ‘The Nichol’ behind Shoreditch Church, but at enormous social cost to thousands of slum-dwellers evicted from their homes...