LONDON was not always throbbing with City cash, oil money and Russian oligarch grease. Celebrity colonialists looking for a cause in Africa need only to look back 100 years to see images of grinding poverty in London, beacon of empire. Wandsworth museum is staging a fantastic exhibition of photographs from 1857 to 1965:
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