SHOREDITCH & BRICK LANE UNDER THREAT!

THE CAMPAIGN TO SAVE SHOREDITCH, BRICK LANE & BETHNAL GREEN FROM THE MASSIVE CITY TOWER BLOCK EXPANSION.

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[Bretwalda007]

barrynormal misses the point - it's not the individuals that flock to areas that matter, it's the fabric of the city itself. Villages in London like Shoreditch will continue to go in and out of fashion and that's fine but to bulldoze huge swathes of culturally and historically interesting areas of the city simply so that a relatively small group of people can make huge profits is obscene.

[saveshoreditch]

Good point Bretwalda007! You've hit the nail on the head there.

Areas, like buildings, go in and out of fashion continually but it seems particularly ironic that in the year we're celebrating the wonderful renovation of St Pancras station (thankfully saved from demolition by John Betjeman, Wayland Young and like minded campaigners in the 1960's) certain powers seem intent on repeating the same old mistakes.

Future generations will take a very dim view indeed of the bulldozing of Shoreditch.

[pienliquor77]

So good to see some of our own commenting on here. I completely agree with the comments from the cockneys on here. We were ignored when the asians then the trendies overun the area. There's hardly a cockney lives there now. Fuck them all, both the asians and the trendies. Flatten the gaff and build what the fuck you want on it. There's hardly any East End left anyway.

[ec1yiddo]

save shoreditch-fuck off. the trendies, hippy scum ruined the gaff years ago. your mob have made it worse beyond repair. lcoals who have lived there cant afford it cos all the hippies from the home counites got mummy and daddy to buy them houses there. nothing for any1 normal to do there unless there into shit music shit art and overpriced boozers. barely any true cockneys live there nowadays.

[bowhammer2007]

well said fella

[bowhammer2007]

well said pienliqour.

[shoreditchkick]

i love the bishopsgate tower - crazy perspective.

[espaceman000]

Howard Roark

[MostWantedE2]

they have already built dat thing

[deejayhart]

Is Matt Johnson behind this?

Oh jeez - The The were a big part of my life. No nostalgic bullshit. Brilliant albums.

[deejayhart]

Well, plenty of inflammatory comments for no good reason.

The "gentrification" of the area is absolutely analogous to Williamsburg, New York. And of course, so many other areas that had benefitted from an artistic community. It seems long gone now - Factual Nonsense and all the crazy happenings - but it is not to say that people able enough to remain shouldn't be able to stay!!

Whatever the prices, KEEP the community - and I'm not saying that with my tongue in my cheek. Though, I'm jealous.

[johninoxton]

iyou all might have left 2 late to do much about it

shoreditch was marked down as an area of opportunity immediately after it was almost flattened in the blitz, and the local people , remembered what it was like and wished for it to be rebuilt like it was, which was industrial factories for employment, bars, hospitality, theatre

with theatre playing a huge role in shoreditch past success and economy.

unfortunately we are victims of our own success in selling the place when it was almost dead