Birthing pains

2011-10-25T08:47:00

Boots is grateful to the blog Spitalfields Life for highlighting the plight of the area’s former Jewish Maternity Hospital, where Alma Cogan, Arnold Wesker and Lionel Bart were all born, and which is threatened with demolition by the Peabody Trust to make way for a 14-storey tower.

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