jjfadaka
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g :
what about the communities that was in Lewisham before the Nigerians
2026-02-26 16:35:34
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jojokoru 🍿📺🎬 :
ahhhh growing up in lewisham... yh they moved us to birmingham. didnt realise mine was not a unique experience, going back as an adult is crazy cuz of the gentrification, we count all the shops that closed down which is like 90%
2026-02-26 16:21:24
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TKEM :
Same happened to the cockneys and the working class of London. Places evolve ❤️❤️
2026-02-27 13:15:45
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luxuryblogger | UGC CREATOR :
and now the luxury flats are empty
2026-02-27 06:39:29
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jauntyangle :
Gentrifier = white person with a job. They are also moving for economic reasons.
2026-02-27 03:09:00
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ez.joy :
This so awful but such an important story.
2026-02-26 16:28:26
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Marissa Ombugabe :
I think it’s very complex my love. I have friends grandparents/parents from Croydon and Lewisham who lived there in the 1940s/50s way before we had black people living in these areas. They say it was extremely different. Are these people just coming back to their roots? Or were they regentrified and then regentrified again ?
2026-02-26 21:38:49
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Kalierin :
What about the people in London before your family moved in
2026-03-01 20:18:23
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lapsang & earl grey :
there was an deliberate government policy of kicking those on low incomes and housing benefit out of london after the 2009 election.
2026-02-26 17:39:10
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jjfadaka :
Also sorry I’m not saying gunshots are exciting, I mean Lewisham/peckham had a soul and was a complex, real place holding multiple lives
2026-02-26 17:45:42
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Georgia :
Exact same as east ldn, I was born in hackney and live in tower hamlets and I always feel like I’m in an episode of black mirror the area and the community has completely changed sadly 😔
2026-02-26 22:25:32
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lissia1302 :
I 100% agree with you. I’m a born and bred North Londoner and it has changed so much. 15 years ago, the middle class wouldn’t dream of living where I do and now all the gentrifyers have taken over. I used to live so close to my cousins, uncles, aunties and now know my nephew won’t because he’s in Surrey, my other brother lives in Essex and my other lives in Barnet. So sad really
2026-03-02 16:22:00
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🇵🇸 moop 🇸🇩 mooop 🇨🇩 :
this is morbidly interesting and well explained 💔
2026-02-26 16:08:26
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Niamh - cultured childhood 🌍 :
I work with families in temporary accommodation in South London already housed maybe 40 mins from their network and child’s school who are then offered permanent accommodation but it’s in Hull etc!
2026-02-26 21:35:42
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snoozes on cruises :
not even an hour away 😳. we had to move from London to Lancashire , knowing no one. its what we do
2026-03-06 08:32:16
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AnnieBee :
How did you get on in Essex
2026-02-27 08:03:31
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LondonCityRoller :
I had to move away from my part of the Uk to come to London to get a job as the country is so London centric - long way from family and networks.
2026-02-26 23:06:41
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restless_oat :
I like to joke about how London is becoming 'white' again for all the wrong reasons...
2026-02-27 21:23:36
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Mia 🌱 :
Thank you for sharing this!
2026-02-26 17:11:32
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burna man :
So what?
2026-03-16 02:36:37
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g :
why dont you espire to be upwardley mobile
2026-02-26 18:40:34
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g :
doesn't appear to much fun for non Nigerian residents back in the day
2026-02-26 16:37:19
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jauntyangle :
Communities change all the time due to economics and migration. Your community was no more special or deserving to be preserved than those it replaced.
2026-02-27 03:06:18
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