For her degree show, London Metropolitan University fine art graduate Anna Hamilton constructed a three-dimensional version of the Old Nichol. Anna lived for several years in Sclater Street, Bethnal Green, and became fascinated with the area and its past. After reading The Blackest Streets, she decided to recreate the Old Nichol as an installation called Slum. “I wanted to give my slum dwellers something they would never have had – Victorian luxury. Using pencil and watercolour, I created a comfortable home that the inhabitants of the Nichol deserved but could only dream of.”