Custom House, Our House:
A Community Archive of Regeneration, Power and Collective Voices
(Jessie Brennan, 2025)
This book captures over two decades of community-led resistance to gentrification in Custom House, East London. Through 12 oral history interviews and commissioned photography, residents, shopkeepers, and stakeholders share stories of activism, negotiation, and belonging.
A research, knowledge-sharing, and heritage project, it reflects the power of community memory and participatory methods in shaping urban regeneration. Custom House, Our House stands as both an archive and a call to action—demonstrating how local agency can challenge top-down development and imagine more just urban futures.
Custom House, Our House: A Community Archive of Regeneration, Power and Collective Voices book is available at the touring exhibition and book launch, plus online soon.
Custom House, Our House
Exhibition Guide
This exhibition guide tells the story of over two decades of community resistance to gentrification in Custom House, East London. Through interviews and photographs, local voices reveal how collective memory, activism, and care have shaped a powerful grassroots response to urban change.
