Brick Lane by Fran May between 1976 and 1978, encouraged by Bill Brandt while Fran was a student of photography at the Royal College of Art. The street has been used for several filming locations for the BBC television show Luther (2013) in its third season. Brick Lane Brick Lane (Bengali: ব্রিক লেন) is a street in the East End of London, in the Borough of Tower Hamlets. It runs from Swanfield Street in Bethnal Green, crosses Bethnal Green Road in Shoreditch, enters Whitechapel and is linked to Whitechapel High Street to the south by the short stretch of Osborn Street. Today,
East End of London in popular culture the Fu Manchu films — based on Sax Rohmer's novels. These began with some short British serials 1923–4 before the first American feature film "The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu" appeared in 1929, followed by many others. Further multi-cultural encounters are featured in the film "Brick Lane" (2007) based on the novel by Monica Ali. The East End is featured as the setting for the Hughes brothers' film "From Hell (film)" (2001) based on the Alan Moore graphic-novel of the same name, providing a modern interpretation of the Jack the Ripper murders. The East End also appears in the film "Mary