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Description: | London's Chinese community first settled in Limehouse, near London's East End docks. The area was extensively bombed during the Second World War and, from the 1950s, a new Chinatown appeared in Soho.
The move to Soho was influenced by the area's cheap rents and the rising popularity of Chinese food. This was in turn influenced by the return of servicemen at the end of the Second World War. Many who had been based in the Far East had developed a taste for Eastern cuisine.
In this photo from 1985, a young Chinese girl is standing in front of the window of a Chinese restaurant. In the window is an ornate screen decorated with brightly coloured stylised dragons. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Communities Cityscape | Temporal: | 1985 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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