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Synopsis
After Petticoat Lane, Brick Lane is arguably East London’s most famous street. But whereas Petticoat Lane bursts with life on a Sunday and becomes a redundant, litter-strewn gash down the side of the City most other times, Brick Lane seems to be a street that rarely seems to sleep. From Mile End to Whitechapel and on to Spitalfields, John Bennett presents the hidden gems and the well known sites of the core of London’s East End. Through his photographs and essays John Bennett reminds us of the often brutal history of the area – from the squalid slums of the time of William Booth and the Siege of Sidney Street to the violence of the Kray Brothers. Again and again, however, he explores how streets, parks, pubs, neighbourhoods have developed as new migrants have moved in – the Huguenots, the Irish, Jews, Bangladeshis and now, for the first time, well-off City types. John Bennett has been photographing the East End for the last thirty years. He works in London as a despatch driver. He is descended from Huguenots and Sephardic Jewish East Enders. He lives in north London.
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