The new line is billed as the regeneration railway, but delis and pilates classes won’t really help those on low wages On builder-ready land surrounding the box-fresh Shoreditch High Street station , a railwayman passed on a piece of lore. In the old days, he said, this had been the scene of routine robbery. All around the place had lived the faceless poor, and when desirable consignments rolled …

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