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Brick Lane - Changing Places
Informal Represention
Textual refrances
Book, Monica Ali, Brick Lane, plot is about a bangladeshi girl moving to brick lane, unpleasant experince
Poem, Sammy Brough, 'well adored with art lane', 'come for the best curry lane' pleasant experince
Newspaper, evening standard, 'controversy after shopping centre approved for Brick Lane'
Poet, Sally Flood, wrote poems from her window facing Brick Lane, mainly focusing on the unpleasant 'meth drinkers mixes with the down and out' and pleasent characteristics 'mixture of aromatic spices' of Brick Lane
Street art, ranges from cartoons to political and controversial art, popular artists such as Bankey have painted here
Social media
More tousim than insider experince
Hashtags for Brick Lane on instagram include fashion, street art and food
local artist Adam Dant paints maps detailing Spitalfields area with a strong sense of place
Change
Demographic
Economic
Locale & Location
location
Latitude- 17.38, longitude- 18.24, county- Tower Hamlets, country- England,
locale
Brick Lane Jamme Masjid Mosque
Biegal Bake, traditional jewish beigals
FOurniere Street Hugenout Chuch
Spittlefields Market
Brick Lane Vintage Market
Experience of Place
Insider / lived experience
Oustider
Media
Formal Representation
GIS
Population Density-
145ppl per ha which is higher than the borough average of 129
Life Expectancy at Birth-
Highest 83yrs & Lowest 72yrs
Index of Multiple Deprivation-
Between 2010 & 2019 there has been a massive reduction in the level of deprivation however much of the area sits between the 2nd most deprived decile & the 4th.
Ethnicity-
Between 1997 & 2016 there has been a massive reduction in the proportion of white ethnic people & a massive increase in the proportion of people whoch are Bangladeshi
Census Data
Mean Age-
29.3yrs
41% Bangladeshi
% of people with level 4 qualification or above-
38%
Economic Activity-
344ppl economically active & 98ppl economically inactive
Religion-
52.6% Muslim & 19.7% with no religion
Historic
Immigration to the area
17th Century- Influx of the French Hugenouts
Became Well known for weaving & tailoring
19th & 20th Century- Area was known for it's Jewish & Irish populations
The Battle of cable street (1936) was a battle of the Irish & the Jewish against the fascists
Jewish population brough rag workers & artisans such as bakers who produced the famous Jewish 'Beigels'
Many left following the Industrial revolution
1930s - 1950s- Many Bengaliu people started to settle in the area & moved to Brick lane in the 1970s
There was alot of racial violence in the 1970s
Community came to call the area 'Banglatown'
Poverty / Crime
Jack the Ripper was believed to have found many of his vivtims in the area. It is believe that many of his vitims were establishe in the local, 'Ten Bells pub'.
Due to the lack of money in the area due to the nature of the jobs that people worked in, there was high levels of crime and there were many brothels in the area, including on the site of the founier street Hugenout church prior to it's construction
Brick Lane used to be called 'Whitechapel Lane' but was renamed some time in the 15th century as a result of the brick & tile manufacturing that used local brick earth deposits
The
Truman Brewery
was founded in 1666 when Brick lane was jsut a dirt track with fields either side
The Brewery Grew as east London grew. At one point in the 1800s it was the biggest brewery in the world producing 400,000 barrels of beer a year.
The Brewery & company remained independent until the 1980s when a merger was formed.
The Brewery shut in 1989. Howevr, the building remaned in tack & is currently the creative heart of East London
Truman's was re-established by 2 local beer enthusiasts in 2013 with the opening of a brewery in Hackney
Factors influencing the built envrioment
Exogenous
Endogenous
Transport
Put this ALL UNDER THE BYULT ENVIRONMENT SECTION!
Exogenous transport
Endogenous transport
Demographics
Population density - 145 people per hectare (higher than average of 129 people per hectare)
Age - over 10,000 of the residents from Banglatown and Spitalfields were aged between 16-64 accounting for 80% of the population of the ward, fewer than borough average residents aged 0-15
Ethnicity - Bangladeshis accounted for 41% of the population (higher than borough average)
Religion - 41.5% of the population identified as Muslims higher than borough average, 18.4% are Christians
Housing - proportion of socially rented houses in the borough was almost double that of the London average
Household size - 13.3% of the households had 5 or more people living in them, average household size was 2.65 compared to borough average of 2.51
Unemployment - 7.5% of people living in Spitalfields and Banglatown were unemployed (above the average in London, 5.2% and England 4.4%)
Qualification levels - 11% had no qualifications in Spitalfields and Whitechapel below Englands average 15%
Future plans for Regeneration & Gentrification