Brick Lane Market Brick Lane Market Brick Lane Market is a London market centred on Brick Lane, Tower Hamlets in east London. It is located at the northern end of Brick Lane and along Cheshire Street, in the heart of east London's Bangladeshi community. It operates every Sunday from around 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The market sells a diverse range of items, from antique books to eight-track cartridge decks, and for many years it hosted a stall selling nothing but rusty cog wheels. The market has always been popular with and much photographed by art students, and bargain hunters from across London
Monica Ali Lane community. In 2007, the book was adapted as a film of the same name. Starring the Indian actress Tannishtha Chatterjee, the film was distributed both in the UK and internationally. When production was underway in 2006, some of the Bangladeshi community opposed Ruby Films' intention to film parts of the novel in the Brick Lane area. They formed the "Campaign Against Monica Ali's Film Brick Lane". The writer and activist Germaine Greer expressed support for the campaign, writing in "The Guardian:" As British people know little and care less about the Bangladeshi people in their midst, their first appearance