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When we mention Chinatown in London (倫敦華埠), we always mean the “leister square Chinatown” or the older “Bayswater chinatown” but did you know that London’s original Chinatown was Limehouse? Limehouse was the site of a short-lived porcelain factory founded by George Wilson in 1746. It was one of many attempts to make a British version of the beautiful, white ceramic …