For those in London who like radical history and good old traditional
pubs: http://tinyurl.com/aon7aq
(it's a similar route to the one i lead for a walking tour at the RGS
2008, and i'd recommend the route as a good walk exploring the past and
present of the area, even if you don't join this particular tour)
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EAST END RADICAL HISTORY PUB CRAWL
Saturday 31st January 5pm
A guided history tour / pub crawl supporting traditional local boozers
and exploring the radical history of the East End
1: Salmon and Ball (5pm)
2: Marquis Of Cornwallis (6pm)
3: Pride Of Spitalfields (7pm)
4: White Hart (7:45pm)
5: Good Samaritan (8:45pm)
6: The George Tavern (10pm)
“Beginning with the sepia faded images of boxers hanging on the walls of
the Salmon & Ball (5pm), the former meeting place of Mosley’s fascists,
where outside gallows once executed rioting Weavers. Along the market of
Bethnal Green Road, pass original Pie and Mash shops, where the 43 Group
began their fight back against anti-semitism, into the Marquis Of
Cornwallis (6pm). Up St. Matthews Row seeing the Krays final resting
place, old faded British Movement graffiti still visible on the school
walls, rotting memories reminding us of the scars of the past. Fast
forward into the future, into Cheshire Street, the number one place to
buy your Dr. Martens, while the invading gentrification glares at us
like the growing gap between rich and poor. Sifting our way through the
trendies of Brick Lane, the sound of former sweatshops, Huguenots in
Banglatown, the National Front being physically defeated by
anti-fascists in the 1970’s. Down Heneage Street, villians garrotting
each other amongst loose women going for cut price, into the Pride Of
Spitalfields (7pm). Onto Whitechapel High Street, dodging Jack The
Ripper tours, where scab trucks heading to Wapping were once attacked by
strikers, into the White Hart (7:45pm) a regular for the visitors of
Freedom Bookshop. Passing Itchychoo Park, the resting place of Charles
1st executioner, down Fieldgate Street and the London Action Resource
Centre, a former anarchist school from the 1920’s, coincidently bought
by those involved in Reclaim The Streets from the 90’s. Pass the doss
house of George Orwell, Jack London and Stalin Into the Good Samaritan
(8:45pm) to ponder the whereabouts of John Merrick’s bones. Enter Sidney
Street ducking the Latvian anarchists bullets from the 1911 Siege, pass
the former Jubilee Street Club hearing the echoes of radical Yiddish
poetry recitals, ending in The George Tavern (10pm) to reminisce about
the old Sutton Street Squat.”
TIMES HIGHLY LIKELY TO CHANGE!!
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Anthony Ince
Research Student
Department of Geography,
Queen Mary, University of London,
Mile End,
E1 4NS
http://www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/staff/incea.html
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