Great Britain; London; Limehouse:The proprietor of a Chinese Restaurant at 25 Limehouse Causeway; Limehouse; East London. (Limehouse; in Stepney; was London's first Chinatown. The Chinese began settling in Limehouse before 1850; arriving as seamen or ship's launderers. By 1890 sailors from Shanghai were settling in Pennyfields; Amoy Place and Ming Street; while those from Guangzhou (Canton) and southern China chose Gill Street and Limehouse Causeway; slightly further west. From the 1890s the Chinese community in the East End grew in size and spread eastwards; from the original settlement in Limehouse Causeway; into Pennyfields. The area provided for the Lascar; Chinese and Japanese sailors working the Oriental routes into the Port of London). Photo; c. 1930.