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3 unusual facts about Brick Lane


Charles Buxton

Buxton was born in Cobham, Surrey, the third son of Sir Thomas Buxton, 1st Baronet, a notable brewer, MP and social reformer, and followed in his father's footsteps, becoming a partner in the brewery of Truman, Hanbury, Buxton, & Co in Brick Lane, Spitalfields, London, and then an MP.

East London NHS Foundation Trust

In May 2013 the Trust took over the Health E1 clinic in Brick Lane which had been run by nursing staff with GPs and other specialist nurses for those who couldn’t register with a practice because they had no settled address.

Kathleen Bryson

Bryson has done some part-time modeling, and had appeared both in Rankin's SNOG art exhibition in Brick Lane, London 2000 and in his Snog book as well.


Aldgate East tube station

Nearby places of interest to Aldgate East include the Whitechapel Art Gallery (next door to the eastern entrance), Petticoat Lane Market and Brick Lane.

Brick Lane Mosque

During the 1970s, the area of Spitalfields and Brick Lane was populated mainly by Bangladeshis who had come to Britain from the Sylhet region looking for better work.

Dance Umbrella

Recently the festival has also included visits to Laban, Battersea Arts Centre, the Criterion Theatre, TATE Modern, Brick Lane Music Hall and Siobhan Davies Studios.

Dogshitter Wants

Although ostensibly concerned with jokes about cultural figures like Elton John & Michel Gondry, quite large parts of the show were impenetrably obscure, and were probably only fully understood by the creators and their immediate friends and associates, particularly those who were part of the dot com industry centred on Brick Lane in London, England.

International Screenwriters' Festival

Speakers included Michael Goldenberg (writer, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Contact, Peter Pan), Alison Owen (producer, Brick Lane, Shaun of the Dead), and Sarah Smith (head of feature development, Aardman Animations).

Monica Ali

Some groups thought Ali had negatively portrayed people from the Sylhet region, as they constitute the majority of the Bangladeshi immigrants living in the Brick Lane community.


see also

Rachel Lichtenstein

In 1999 she wrote Rodinsky's Room with Iain Sinclair, and since then she has published Rodinsky's Whitechapel (1999) and On Brick Lane (2007).