eBook ´ On Brick Lane Ý Hardcover Read

ePub On Brick Lane

eBook ´ On Brick Lane Ý Hardcover Read À [Read] ➵ On Brick Lane Author Rachel Lichtenstein – Dogsalonbristol.co.uk Brick Lane today is a place of extremes – a street that's constantly reinventing itself Blending history and reportage with personal testimony and urban myths and interspersing these with maps and p BrBrick Lane today is a place of extremes – a street that's constantly reinventing itself Blending history and reportage with personal testimony and urban myths and interspersing these with maps and pho I picked this up at a charity shop somewhere around Portobello Road Market It was interesting overall but the author organized it by topic instead of by time which made it all a little confusing She talked to a lot of people most of whom love the area as much as she does and document it as she does and did a lot of research which I commend it for Her grandparents Polish Jewish refugees once had a shop on Brick Lane and this explains her love for the area As she writes in the introduction “I have heard how the street has changed from a thriving Jewish community to an area abandoned to violence and vandalism to Banglatown and currently a tourist and heritage site” There’s a walking tour in the back that I will take a picture of in case we ever make it back to London