Although there are now few signs of its past, the area surrounding Vetro was London’s original Chinatown. In the late 19th Century, Chinese employees of the East India Company settled on the edge of the world’s busiest docks and set up businesses to cater for their home sailors. By 1910, a thriving community had formed creating the first Chinese quarter in the capital. Today, traces have all but disappeared but there is romance in the notion that these streets once echoed the sounds of spice traders from the ancient Orient.