Bow Common
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Bow Common is a locality that includes part of the Mile End and Bromley-by-Bow areas of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London.
The area takes its name from a common that lay off of Bow Common Lane, and which survived until the mid-nineteenth century.
Historically it has been an industrial district producing and supplying Londons town gas demands - The former Victorian Gas works site at Bow Common is one of a few scares remaining following the areas ongoing transformation. In 1883 anti-poverty campaigner Andrew Mearns commented on the lack of church attendance amongst locals, and Charles Booth described it as 'worse than almost any district in London.' Slums were cleared during the course of the 20th century, most hastened by bomb damage in the Second World War when Bow was targeted for it being an important artery, to feed the demands of the city, at that time.St Paul's Church was rebuilt in the fashionable 'new brutalism' style of1960 (replacing one damaged in the war) and is now a Grade II* listed building.
