| Description | This collection consists of papers relate to community campaigns and local government responses mainly around housing.
CATALOGUE STATUS: This collection is currently uncatalogued, consisting of two deposits:
Accession reference TH/9474:
3 boxes. No box list is available.
Includes in Box 2 the background papers and supporting documents to the report he co-authored 'The Race for Power: an investigation into the racist housing policies of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets', April 1994 (published by Tower Hamlets Unison); and also a collection of internal Tower Hamlets Labour Party documents from the period 1981-85 during which the party was in transition.
Accession reference TH/10702: mainly printed material.
6 boxes. A box list is available as follows:
Boxed in newspaper box as TH/10702: BAG 1 Box 1 of 2:
His set of 'East End News' (from East End News Cooperative) 37 issues 1979-1984:
[These complement tightly bound reference versions in Local History Library]
Issue 1 24 February 1979
Issue 1 13 March 1981 (missing pages)
Issue 2 20 March 1981 - Issue 12 29 May 1981
Issue 15 19 June 1981 - Issue 16 26 June 1981
Issue 21 31 July 1981 - Issue 30 16 October 1981
Issue 32 30 October 1981
Issue 36 27 November 1981
Issue 38 11 December 1981
Issue 48 September 1982
Issue 57 August 1983
Issue 63 May 1984
Issue 66 August 1984
2 sheets of pages loose from issues to be reunited with issues
Also further amalgamated issues from first deposit TH/9474. A list of these will be added shortly.
Boxed as TH/10702: BAG 1 Box 2 of 2:
'Jewish East End Education Pack'
Auschwitz and East London booklet by Tower Hamlets Arts Project 1983
Community Alliance for Police Accountability (CAPA) Annual Reports 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987/88.
Newham Monitoring Project - as follows
Annual Reports 1985,1988, 1989, 1990, 10 Years of Report, 1994/95,1995/96
Racism and Racist Violence in Schools - Ten Years of Newham Monitoring Project 1990
Policing the Police by Newham Monitoring Project 1995
Wallet including:
'The Docklands Voice' Issue 2, March/April 1995 relating to Newham area
Newham Monitor Spring 1995
The Enemy in Our Midst 1995 by Newham Monitoring Project
Boxed as TH/10702: BAG 2 Box 1:
'Ocean New Deal for Communities Delivery Plan 2000-2010' by London Borough of Tower Hamlets.1999: report, House of Commons programme 29 March Oona King MP. 'What is New Deal' information sheet; Invitation to 'Shaping Your Future. The Ocean Estate New Deal Community Conference' 11 March, Stepney Green School. 1999.1 file
'Ocean New Deal for Communities Phase 1 Bid Submission' December 1998
'Stepney New Deal for Communities Household Baseline Survey' March 2000 by User Research
'Ocean Health and Social Care Plan' by Taylor Made Solutions April 2001
'Ocean New Deal for Communities Community Engagement Strategy' by CSC Consultants 2001
'Limehouse Fields - Estate Racial Harassment and Regeneration ' - internal London Borough of Tower Hamlets officer's report by Mark Adams SRB Co-ordinator sent to London Borough of Tower Hamlets legal Department. 1998
'Final Evaluation of Heart of the East End Urban Initiative' (EU) Report published by CSC Consultants February 2002. Photocopy (1 envelope)
'Stepney Voice' community newspaper - 12 issues from c2000 to June 2003
including Visit of Prime Minister and Cabinet to Stepney in 2001, and residents opposition to invasion of Iraq in 2003
Issues:
1 circa 2000
4 July 2000
7 December 2000
8 February 2001
9 March 2001
10 May 2001
12 September 2001
13 October 2001
16 April 2002
23 February 2003
26 May 2003
27 June 2003
Stepney Housing and Development Agency (SHADA):
SHADA Newsletter Aug/Sep 1998
SHADA Annual Reports 1997/98 and 1998/99
'Central Stepney SRB Delivery Plan - Year 7 : 2001-2002' London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Mark Adams contact as Central Stepney SRB Co-Ordinator
Central Stepney SRB Audit and Evaluation - LBTH Scrutiny Committee Agenda Item 5.2 Report 6 March 2001 by Mark Adams [Central Stepney SRB Co-Ordinator]
Series of Central Stepney SRB Health and Regeneration Reports, as follows:
'I Mustn't Laugh Too Much - Housing and Health in the Limehouse Fields and Ocean Estates in Stepney' by Peter Ambrose, Centre for Urban and Regional Research, University of Sussex November 1996. Covers 'London Borough of Tower Hamlets SRB Programme First Report of Project HC4 - The 'Health Gain' Survey' 1 volume
'A Drop in the Ocean - The Health Gain from the Central Stepney SRB in the context of national health inequalities' by Peter Ambrose, The Health and Social Policy Research Centre, University of Brighton June 2000 1 volume
'For Richer for Poorer - Counting the costs of regeneration in Stepney' by Peter Ambrose and Dee MacDonald, University of Brighton June 2001 1 volume
'Second Best Value - The Central Stepney SRB and how non-joined up Government policies undermine the cost effectiveness of regeneration' by Peter Ambrose, University of Brighton May 2002
Mark Adams, Central Stepney SRB Co-ordinator's correspondence, briefings and press coverage on the above 4 reports, 1997-2000
Map of 'Community Resource Centres and Regeneration Projects' in Central Stepney and Locksley - by London Borough of Tower Hamlets 2000. Includes list of regeneration projects and contact details. Mark Adams listed as LBTH contact. 1 map
Boxed as TH/10702: BAG 2 Box 2 (Extra Batch):
Regeneration and Black and Minority Ethnic Communities Conference 2000 - Notice and Programme 1 file. Arranged by Mark Adams, Stepney SRB, sponsored by London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Homeless Families Campaign Poster 1987 Plus 'Out in the Cold' Briefing Pack and Racist Authorities Attach Homeless Families Note.
Ocean Youth 'Annual Report 1991-93' 1 volume
Stepney Festival 'Bandig' Poster 2001. 'Oasis presents
' Held at Stepney Green, Stepney Way 5 August
Tower Power (NALGO Newsletter) Number 240 April 2001
NALGO 1984 Strike Documents including cuttings, open letter and Tower Power (NALGO Newsletter) Number 101 July 1984. Relates to 50 library workers sent home without pay
NALGO Strike 1978 memorandum letter relating to social workers in Tower Hamlets. 2 pages
Reports from Bow and Poplar Labour Party (by Mark Adams) 1983 1 file
Mohammed Abdur Rob Obituary from Guardian 4 May 2000. Photocopy
Tower Hamlets Housing cuttings and documents includes 'Development Progress' on Greater London Council housing and manuscript 'Report back from Tower Hamlets Fightback Housing Sub-committee'. 1980 1 file
BBC 'Open Door' Programme. Original correspondence of Mrs B Powis, Spitalfields Housing and Planning Rights Service, Spitalfields Centre with British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). 1982. 1 file
Series of Black and white photographs of development sites, housing demonstrations including residents with placards - Great Eastern Buildings Slum Clearance area; and Hulton Picture Library image of East End Slum dwelling
Tower Hamlets Community Workers Report July 1979 titled 'London Borough of Tower Hamlets Working Party on Social Services Re-organisation. A Report by the Community Workers Team'
'Tower Hamlets News' Volume 4 Number 7 February 1969
Also:
'Local Struggles in Tower Hamlets 1985-1986 press cuttings and reports' - press cuttings and reports on Tower Hamlets, Housing and Politics 1 file [formerly in blue lever arch file]
Boxed as TH/10702: BAG 3: 1 of 2:
Evidence to the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee on Race and Immigration by Tower Hamlets Association for Racial Equality - June 1986 1 file
Employment in Docklands - by Docklands Forum and Birkbeck College 1990 1 volume
30 Reasons why Tower Hamlets Social and Liberal Democrats Council is Racist - unpublished draft Report by Gary Hewett 1994 1 wallet
'Race for Power II used information': Housing and Anti Racist reports, press articles and other documents - 1970s-1980s 1 file
'Local Housing Struggles' cuttings and other articles, with manuscript bibliography of relevant reports 1980s 1 file
'Local Housing Struggles 2' cuttings and other articles, with manuscript bibliography of relevant reports 1980s 1 file
Boxed as TH/10702: BAG 3: 2 of 2:
Housing Issues on the Isle of Dogs (Background information) - published by Isle of Dogs Neighbourhood Committee of LBTH - Date ? 1 volume
42-66 Hanbury Street Closing Orders File including interviews with residents - compiled by Spitalfields Housing and Planning Rights Service and Spitalfields Housing Cooperative. 1 folder
Princes Lodge Hostel Campaign ('Living Hell' ) - various press cuttings (including national Daily Mirror coverage by John Pilger) and campaign documents. 1 wallet
Isle of Dogs Neighbourhood Committee Reports - 1990 1 bundle. Includes other material to sort
'Speaking Out' Report of London Housing Inquiry by London Housing Forum- features Tower Hamlets pages 70-75 . Date ? 1 volume
'Urban Development Corporations - 6 Years in London Docklands ' report by Docklands Consultative Committee 1988 1 volume
'Taking Stock - the State of Housing in Tower Hamlets' published by THIRRC 1985 1 pamphlet
Also enclosing: 'Housing Halted - a Special Report' by Association of Island Communities (island Resource Centre) Date ? 1 volume
London Borough of Tower Hamlets Annual Housing Report to Residents 1994. 1 folder
'Out in the Cold' report and briefing pack by Tower Hamlets Homeless Families Campaign on use of 'intentionality', 1987 1 briefing pack
Spitalfields a Housing and Planning Rights Service Annual Report 1983 1 booklet
'Race and Housing Policy in Tower Hamlets' - by Rushanara Ali, unpublished Oxford University thesis 1 wallet
The Match Girls Strike 1880 by Reg Beer - Labour History Museum 1 volume
London County Council's Reconstruction of Stepney and Poplar 1945-65 by Andrew Moye - Central London Polytechnic. 1 volume
'Save Spitalfields' - A Photographic Exhibition Phil Maxwell 1989 1 pamphlet
St Mary's Centre, Whitechapel reports 1 bundle
Unsorted - cuttings, newsletters and annual reports [to be listed] |
| AdminHistory | Mark Adams (born c1956) worked as a law centre worker, community activist and local government officer/regeneration co-ordinator in Tower Hamlets.
He first came to Tower Hamlets in Spring 1978 on an anti-Nazi League demonstration, which was a national demonstration against the rise of the National Front. At the time he was a student, studying at Cardiff, Wales training as a town planner.
He then moved to and lived in Tower Hamlets from 1980-1993, first in Spitalfields, then Mile End.
Mark Adams worked in the borough from 1979-1993 and 1996-2002 as follows:
1979-1986: Worker at Spitalfields Housing and Planning Rights Service (SHAPRS), Spitalfields Centre, 192 Hanbury Street. The service was funded by the Greater London Council (GLC) initiative called the Spitalfields Neighbourhood Committee. SHAPRS had Bengali people at its centre, run by and employing Bengali staff including social workers serving the local community. Ahmed Fakhruddin was a founding member.
- one of the first initiatives was the Tower Hamlets Homeless Families Campaign (HFS) around 1979-1980 - to support homeless Bengali families living in unsecured buildings in and around Brick Lane and put into hotels by the council around Finsbury Park. At one point the Campaign took over the Homeless Persons Unit in Commercial Road to run the unit and make demands for improvements.
- another was to tackle the worst housing around Brick Lane and Hanbury Street including Great Eastern Buildings at the north end of Brick Lane. All had been declared official slum clearance areas under the Housing Act.
SHAPRS closed down in 1986 with the abolition of the GLC.
1983: involved in the Bow and Poplar Labour Party.
From 1986: After closure of SHARPS, he worked at St Mary's Centre which covered the ward around Myrdle Street and Parfett Street. The centre was set up mainly by Saiful Alam and Tassaduq Ahmed.
1994: co-authored 'Tower Hamlets the race for power : an investigation into the racist housing policies of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets' by Gary Hewett and Mark Adams, 1994. Published by Tower Hamlets Unison.
1994-1995: Director of Holloway Tenant Co-operative Housing Association Limited
1997-2001: London Borough of Tower Hamlets (LBTH) working as Central Stepney SRB [Single Regeneration Bid] Co-Ordinator. He was based in the Urban Regeneration Section of LBTH, Tower Hamlets Town Hall, Mulberry Place.
He later became Regeneration Manager in South Kilburn (working there in 2006). |