cover image: image #1 The abandoned side of North Woolwich

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image #1 The abandoned side of North Woolwich

28 Mar 2023

image #1 The abandoned side of North Woolwich 1 Poverty: reliance on food bank services and cuts to benefits 2 Lack of employment credits #1 and discrimination These are the thoughts, images, and findings of Twinkle and Terry, local residents and citizen social scientists from Beckton and Custom 3 Abandoned and House, Newham. [...] Some of the sites mentioned in the zine are pinned with green flags 6 7 1Poverty: reliance on food image #2 The Food Bank is what brings many people to the RADLAC (Royal Albert Docks Learning bank and Community Centre), just south of the King George V DLR station. [...] Lesley, who has lived in the area since 1987, spoke of how the community had lost several useful businesses, and linked this to gentrification and the construction of new flats: “Shops are closing and we need more shops, and more jobs so people can live a better life. [...] Why are people in the area having Woolwich is across the river and not to struggle to get two buses to get to directly connected. [...] Considering Kathy’s “This is the only part of the Borough comments on the closure of shops, these that needs two buses to get to all the observations on the difficulty of reaching shopping centres.
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