Brick Lane is a famous street in the East End of London, in the borough of Tower Hamlets. It runs from Swanfield Street in Bethnal Green in the north, crosses the Bethnal Green Road before reaching the busiest, most commercially active part which runs through Spitalfields, or along its eastern edge. Brick Lane's southern end is connected to Whitechapel High Street by a short extension called Osborn Street.
Brick Lane street sign in English and Bengali. The Bengali name is a transliteration, not a translation, of the English name.
The Brick Lane Mosque, used first as a church and then a synagogue, reflecting changing demographics
An elderly Bangladeshi man in Brick Lane
Curry restaurants in Brick Lane
The East End of London, often referred to within the London area simply as the East End, is the historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London and north of the River Thames. It does not have universally accepted boundaries on its north and east sides, though the River Lea is sometimes seen as the eastern boundary. Parts of it may be regarded as lying within Central London. The term "East of Aldgate Pump" is sometimes used as a synonym for the area.
Dorset Street, Spitalfields, photographed in 1902 for Jack London's book The People of the Abyss
The River Lea at Stratford, with the Olympic Stadium under construction in June 2011
Aldgate Pump: the symbolic start of the East End
The Tower of London was the administrative and geographic cornerstone of the Tower Division