Comments on: Battle For Brick Lane, 1978 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/09/the-battle-for-brick-lane-1978/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 09 Jun 2022 21:26:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Saba https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/09/the-battle-for-brick-lane-1978/#comment-1466803 Thu, 09 Jun 2022 21:26:41 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191952#comment-1466803 Bless these people! I just watched a fictitious USA Public Broadcasting series called Ridley Road — I believe that it was made in England — about the fascists on the East End and their campaigns against the Jews. So heartbreaking and it never ends.

]]> By: Nurjahan Julie Begum https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/09/the-battle-for-brick-lane-1978/#comment-1466794 Thu, 09 Jun 2022 20:36:59 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191952#comment-1466794 Thank you dear friend for highlighting the the stories and voices behind these photographs, many of the people featured came to the private view tonight at four corners and it’s very moving to share the launch of the exhibition with them this evening.

]]> By: achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/09/the-battle-for-brick-lane-1978/#comment-1466728 Thu, 09 Jun 2022 08:18:06 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191952#comment-1466728 I have now taken out my travel diary: 1978 — the year in which I first set foot on British ground. I reached London from the south via the suburbs of Bromley and Beckenham, where David Bowie once lived.

It was Monday, 24 July 1978 at 2.37 pm when I crossed Tower Bridge. One destination was the shop “Musique Boutique” in Shaftesbury Ave, which had already sent me music books to Germany.

I spent my first night in London at 14 Penywern Rd, a student hotel at the time. The East End protests were distant and invisible there, though.

Afterwards I continued my journey and went around the whole British Isle. I was on the road for six weeks and travelled 6,500 kilometres. A wonderful, unforgettable time!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/09/the-battle-for-brick-lane-1978/#comment-1466723 Thu, 09 Jun 2022 06:56:08 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191952#comment-1466723 A moving account, but a shameful story about how immigrants have been treated over the years.

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