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
Brick Lane film, Sarah Gavron, attests on the DVD commentary of the film that genuine footage of Brick Lane does appear in the finished movie. Activists told "The Guardian" they intended to burn copies of Ali's book during a rally to be held on 30 July 2006, but the demonstration passed without incident. Other notable books on the area are "Salaam Brick Lane" by Tarquin Hall, "On Brick Lane" (2007) by Rachel Lichtenstein and "An Acre of Barren Ground" by Jeremy Gavron. A large collection of photographs of the characters and sales people who worked the markets in Brick Lane were taken