'Trangle Camp Hotel, 4 , July 16th 1906': postcard of the 'Plaistow land grabbers' with a police officer. In 1906 a group of men, led by Benjamin Cunningham, occupied wasteland owned by the West Ham Corporation and began to cultivate it. The 'land grab' was part of a protest against rising unemployment after the end of the Boer War and was supported by the politician Will Crook, playwright George Bernard Shaw and author Henry Rider Haggard

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