An industrial hub for 200 years, the area’s historic workshops are being turned into flatsIn the dusty workshop basement of luxury jeweller Deakin & Francis, grooves have been worn into the wood of workbenches used by generations of skilled hands t…
Priced out of Lewisham: the bus driver who beat the bailiffs to stay in his borough – video
When Anthony Brathwaite was told he and his two children were no longer eligible for council housing in Lewisham, south-east London, and was offered a property he could not afford outside the borough, he decided to fight back. Having left a council pro…
Huguenots, Jews, Bengalis … now developers size up London’s Brick Lane
Locals, hipsters and councillors are at odds over glossy plans to revamp the Truman Brewery in London’s East End enclaveFor more than 300 years, it was the industrial heart of Brick Lane in east London, a vast rat-ridden edifice in which thousands of w…
The Pinball Wizard of Illinois
“McLean, Illinois, has a population of 750 people and 100 pinball machines.” The tiny Illinois town, 15 miles outside Bloomington-Normal, is experiencing a downtown revival after a pinball collector opened not one but two pinball arcades. He has also r…