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Brick Lane
Historical factors
Sally Flood
She was a poet and made uniforms during WWII based in brick lane most of her life. She was inspired for her poems by looking out of her factory window whilst working but didn’t publish them until she was 50 years old.
Poems: Window on Brick Lane, Generations between, The Factory closes
One poem describes the different cultures of Brick Lane and how different shops are owned by different cultured people from the ‘Pakistani restaurants’ or the ‘Jewish Trimming shops’.. She describes Brick Lane as being quite a dirty place with lots of people doing drugs.
Adam Dent
a local cartographer and artist from 2011. He made a map of Brick lane and the surrounding area. It holds value because it provides historical background of the area.
It includes characters such as Tracey Emin and Fred the chestnut seller. It also includes the French style buildings and the French church on Fournier street.
It provides a strong sense of place and is a good example of counter mapping which is a bottom up process by which people produce their own maps, informed by their own local knowledge and understanding of places.
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1670
40,000 to 50,000 huguenots sought refuge in London from France. The area became known as the weaver town, due to the skills that huguenots brought to this area
1700
approximatily 5% of the population were hugeunots, with about 23,000 in Spitafields
Late 18th century
huguenots operated 12,00 silk lumes in the area
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1860 - 1880
Huguenots moved into the wealthy areas of London, making way for new immigrants
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1950s - 1960s
Labour shortages within the UK coupled with the economic hardship that was facing east Pakistan encouraged Banglideshi males to move to Britain
Late 1960s
Banglideshi families began to join the male members of the family in Britain which led to a rise in the Banglideshi community
1961
Banglideshi popukation in Britain is approx. 6,000
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1971
The war of independance in Bangladeshcaused the country to become unsatble. This encouraged more male Banglideshis to migrate to Britain for work
1991
Bangladeshi population in Britain is 162,835
2001
Bangladeshi population in Britain 275,395. Bangladeshi population in Tower Hamlets in 65,553
2005
The estimated Bangladeshi population in England is 324,300
The estimated Bangladhesi population in London is 166,900
The estimated Bangladeshi population in Tower Hamlets is 63,800
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Investment
Anti-Gentrification
National newspapers reported on a series of anti-gentrification protests in and around Spitalfields in September 2015
Gentrification can bring great wealth to an area but can also lead to the displacement of original residents, as house prices rose, and shops and services change to suit the tastes of the evolving socio-economic composition of the area
A series of letters written to the Guardian newspaper highlight major concerns about the impacts of gentrification in East London at this time
Anti-gentrification protests have taken place in areas such as Brixton, Hackney and Tower Hamlets as increasing numbers of low-income families have been displaced by gentrification.
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Regeneration
The Old Truman Brewery
Founded in 1666 and was one of the largest brewers in london by the 18th century. By 1989, it closed down due to a lack of business.
It has been regenerating fro roughly 20 years now. Today it is an 11 acre site filled with retail land, office space, leisure space and event space. The site was the location for the second 'Summer of Sonic', a convention for Sonic the Hedgehog fans which took placein August 2009
Land-use
predominantly on the ground floor there is retail shops, pus, restaurants, cafes,
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