Don't expect high rise buildings ala Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore or Bangkok in Leyton even though it has been around for a long, long time. In the morning, it is quiet there at the High Road which is the main route through the town. Said to be a retiring place for wealthy merchants and bankers in the 17th and 18th centuries, Leyton consists mainly of terraced houses built between 1870 and 1910 and modern housing estate. Today, the demographics have changed and one shouldn't be surprised to find Asians plying the street. In fact, while there at Leyton, we almost always bought fruits and drinks from shops run by Pakistani or Bangladeshi, maybe people from the Middle East; but definitely not whites, this I can safely say. And perhaps you would be surprised that the 2011 census revealed that only 66.0% of people living in Leyton speak English. Others speak Urdu, Polish, Turkish, Somali, Romanian, Punjabi, Bengali, Lithuanian or French. 2
In the morning...
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