Last Thursday I made the trip to East London to a Town Hall to see The Last Days of Limehouse, a work which explored the dismantling of the original London Chinatown and its lost legacy. The play focussed on Eileen Cunningham , who grew up in Limehouse’s Chinatown before moving to New York. When she returns, she finds her childhood home and community facing annihilation under the guise of “slum clearance” and “progress” and so she organises a campaign of resistance. The play centred on Eileen’s attempts to resist the total eradication of the original Chinatown and how the community would cope with the ramifications of the council’s decision.