Brick Lane’s walker-friendly al fresco dining hub?
Brick Lane in London’s Bethnal Green, and Whitechapel, famous for Bangladeshi-Sylheti community associated with authentic highly rated food, is going to be pedestrianised in an effort to cut down on Toxic traffic fumes, and to allow outdoor dining and give 20, 000 daily visitors curry house of their choice.
In the 17th century, skilled weaver and draper, Huguenots arrived after being driven out of France and set up a Brick Lane Mosque and a Huguenot chapel which became a Methodist church. In the 19th-century Jewish people escaping pogroms in the Russian Empire immigrated here and converted the church into a synagogue, and the Irish people came here looking for work.
From the 1950s, for nearly three decades, an animal market used to run in Brick Lane, with caged birds covering all the walls and puppies being sold alongside goats, snakes, Lion cubs, and monkey, prompting the RSPCA to close down the market in 1983 after a law was amended banning the street sale of animals altogether.
According to the Jewish Museum, the Russian Vapour Baths in Brick Lane were more popularly known as “ Schewzik’s “ after their owner Benjamin Schewzik. The steam baths were used by the largely immigrant Jewish community living in London’s East End from the late 19th century and were popular before going to the synagogue on Friday evening for prayers.