Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

the "all night beigel shop" at the top of brick lane is still there
as is the "blind beggar" in whitechapel road

I had my offices at the other end of Brick Lane. I used to get food from the beigel shop when my staff were working all night.

i used to work at 1 brick lane
one of my jobs was to go to bloom's for salt beef sandwiches, as i was fit enough to get them back while still hot

I see the Naz is still going strong, used to be cheapest and best at the time and seems standards have not dropped http://www.nazrulbricklane.co.uk/about-us.html

no sign of anything bengali in late 60s early 70s
all still very much a jewish area

I used to lunch at Blooms. It was a very strange place. The service was terrible. The waiters were self employed. They bought the food from the restaurant and sold it to the customers.

it was renowned for its rude waiters
it was also clever - the waiters paid for the food in the kitchen, so if there was a runner, it was the waiter's loss and not the restaurant's

1 Brick lane is still an office block. It is at the south end (low numbers of streets in London are nearest Charring Cross). The bit between Brick Lane and Whitechapel High St is called Osborne Street which is where my offices were.

it was a clothing factory when i was there, and still so when i left in 1978

What did you get the sack for?

East end is ruined now ,totally changed and shot to bits.

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It has just changed that is all. It was always a tip and full of terrible slums. It is becoming gentrified in parts.

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not exactly slums, though it certainly wasn't the sought-after area it now is and ditto spitalfields and docklands

Shoreditch, Spitalfields, Whitechapel, Hoxton, Bethnal Green, Hackney Road were all terrible slums up to almost WWII. Some remained that way into the 1950s.

good grief! i'm not that old .... next you'll be talking about Seven Dials and the Rookeries

I think you are a couple of months older than me.

Where did you live when working at Brick Lane?

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