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Description: | This photograph shows the industrial side of the East End in the early decades of the 20th Century. This van works is on Hanbury Street, a street in Spitalfields which is intersected by Brick Lane. As well as this kind of industry, the area has long been known for its associations with the clothing (or rag) trade. Much of the work in the rag trade has been associated with the successive waves of immigrant communities who have settled in Spitalfields. The area has been home successively to the Huguenots between the 17th and 19th Centuries, East European Jews in the 19th and 20th Centuries, and the Bengalis from the 20th and into the 21st Centuries. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | Bishopsgate Institute | Subjects: | Environment work Cityscape | Temporal: | c1920 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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