Below is some genealogy information and websites about the history and social geography of London - Bow.

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Description: Located in Greater London, Bow sits in the east-end of London. Bow has always had good transport links, sitting on the River Lee and with connections to the Hertford Union canal from the Lee Navigation and Regent's canal. In 1850 it was connected to the underground. Bow was a centre for the slaughter of cattle and the bones were used to add to clay to create porcelain. The Bow China Works was the biggest of these companies although it had relocated by 1776. Bow held a green goose fair each year until the 1850s. Bow also had a history with the railways. Fairfield Locomotive Works were founded in 1843, which built engines, trolleys and railcars. It closed in 1872. In 1852 the North London Railway's locomotive and carriage works opened. A match factories (Bell & Black and Bryant and May) were founded in the 1800s. There werre strikes held at Bryant and May in 1888. Largely employing women, they were under-paid and worked in poor conditions. These strikes were the fore-runners to the Sufragette movement and Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters were prominent in Bow. Originally the parish of Stepney and later that of Bow in the county of Middlesex, it became part of London in 1889. In 1900 it was renamed the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar. In 1965 it became part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in Greater London.

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