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16 unusual facts about East End of London


Aladdin

In pantomime versions, changes in the setting and story are often made to fit it better into "China" (albeit a China situated in the East End of London rather than Medieval Baghdad), and elements of other Arabian Nights tales (in particular Ali Baba) are often introduced into the plot.

Arbeter Fraynd

In 1898, Rudolf Rocker, a German non-Jewish anarchist who had immersed himself into the Yiddish radical culture of London's East End, became the editor of the paper.

Brock Norman Brock

He lives in the East End of London with his partner Cara Konig-Brock and their two children.

Brodie's Law

Brodie's Law is a comic book series created by Daley Osiyemi and David Bircham which tells the story of anti-hero, Jack Brodie, East end Gangster, expert thief and professional killer, who in a twist of fate gains the ability to steal his victims' souls and take on their appearance, memories and feelings.

Cheli

Cheli, according to the Royal Spanish Academy, is the jargon with elements of certain traditional working class districts of Madrid, Spain, such as Lavapiés and Atocha in the southern part of the old city (close to cockney culture of London's East End), together with marginal and counter-cultural elements.

Darrell Lea

Darrell Lea has been in the ownership of the Lea family since it was founded by Harry Lea, who was born on 15 February 1876 in the East End of London, migrated to Australia in 1888, and started making confectionery in 1917 at the back of his Manly Corso fruit shop.

Detleff Neumann-Neurode

She opened a clinic for children of poor families in the East End of London, and kept it going through the years of the Blitz, insisting on crediting Neumann-Neurode despite pressure to avoid using the German name.

European eel

Eels have been important sources of food both as adults (including the famous jellied eels of East London) and as glass eels.

Irving Rosenwater

Born in the East End of London to a Polish father, Rosenwater initially had two birth certificates.

Muslims Against Crusades

The group suggested the towns of Bradford, Dewsbury, and Tower Hamlets in the East End of London as the possible first test beds for these entities.

Northern Future Forum

On the 19–20 January London hosted the inaugural UK-Nordic-Baltic meeting at Whitechapel Gallery in the East End of London.

Rhaune Laslett

Rhaune Laslett was born in the East End of London to an Native American mother from North Carolina and a Russian father.

Smiggle

The first store will open in February 2014 within Westfield Stratford City, located in the East End of London.

The Showroom

For many years, and until 2008, the gallery was based at a site in East London.

Urban Learning Foundation

The Urban Learning Foundation (ULF) was an educational outreach charity on the East India Dock Road, Poplar in London's East End.

Wendy Ewald

Ewald was one of the founders of the Half Moon Photography Workshop in the East End of London; and in 1989 she created the "Literacy through Photography" programmes in Houston, Texas, and Durham, North Carolina.


59 Club

The 59 Club started as a Church of England-based youth club founded in Hackney Wick on 2 April 1959, in the East End of London, then an underprivileged area suffering post-war deprivations.

Cockneys vs Zombies

In a building site in the East End of London, two construction workers discover a 17th-century graveyard ordered sealed by Charles II and are bitten by zombies, setting off a zombie outbreak in the area.

Cris Rogers

In September 2010 he moved to Devons Road, Bow in the East End of London, where he is Associate Vicar at All Hallows Church.

Grodzinski Bakery

In 1888, (although this date is still used in all publicity material and for Centenary celebrations, research at Public Records Office in Kew has indicated that they arrived in 1890) Harris and Judith Grodzinski, bakers by trade, joined many members of the Jewish community in Tsarist Lithuania in migrating westward from Voronova - a shtetl near Lida, currently Belarus, establishing themselves in the East End of London.

Hilde Bruch

She stayed in London for a year, working at the East End Maternity Hospital, which served the Jewish immigrant community in London's impoverished East End, .

Journey Through a Small Planet

In "Journey Through a Small Planet" (1972), the writer Emanuel Litvinoff recalls his working-class Jewish childhood in the East End of London: a small cluster of streets right next to the city, but worlds apart in culture and spirit.

Kiera Bennett

After Leaving The Royal College in 2002 Bennett was involved in creating Rockwell, an artist run gallery and studios in the East End of London (other founding members include Alex Gene Morrison, Reece Jones, Gavin Nolan, Chris Davies).

London Buddhist Centre

The London Buddhist Centre (LBC) in Bethnal Green, East London, is the main London base of the Triratna Buddhist Community, formerly known as the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order.

Oxford and St Georges Old Boys and Old girls Clubs

The first club in the East End of London was held in Cannon Street Road and it expanded into bigger premises in Betts Street where the Girl's Club was added.

Philip Hardwick

In 1994 the historian Dan Cruickshank discovered 4,000 tons, or about 60%, of the arch's stones buried in the bed of the River Lea in the East End of London, including the architrave stones with the gilded EUSTON lettering.

The Last of the Famous International Playboys

The song mythologizes the notorious pair of vicious London gangsters known as the Kray twins (Ronnie and Reggie Kray), who held a tight rein on the East End of London during the 1960s.