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Before the Olympics: London's East End

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The 21st-century sharpness of <a href='http://www.london2012.com/spectators/venues/' target='_blank'>London's Olympic venues</a> stands in stark contrast to these photographs: 20th-century images of the East End neighborhoods that stand in the shadow of the Games. Here, two workers survey the reconstruction of Poplar in April 1951 following the devastation of World War II. All the images that follow are taken from Getty.

The 21st-century sharpness of London's Olympic venues stands in stark contrast to these photographs: 20th-century images of the East End neighborhoods that stand in the shadow of the Games. Here, two workers survey the reconstruction of Poplar in April 1951 following the devastation of World War II. All the images that follow are taken from Getty.