Brick Lane 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, it is the heart of the city's Bangladeshi community and is known to some as "Banglatown". It is famous for its many curry houses. Winding through fields, the street was formerly called Whitechapel Lane. It derives its current name from brick and tile manufacture
London Brick Company Italians settled in Bletchley as they did in Bedford or Peterborough, there is still a substantial community there. In addition to the Italian communities, workers from the Punjab region of India arrived in the 1950s and 60s to work at the Stewartby brickworks. The majority of the Indians were from the Nawanshahr district of Punjab, and settled with their families in Bedford. The company estimates that 5 million houses in the United Kingdom are built using Fletton brick. London Brick Company The London Brick Company is a leading British manufacturer of bricks owned by Forterra plc. The London Brick Company