London Behind the Scenes: Brick Lane

This alternative tour of Brick Lane and the Whitechapel area transports you through time and examines the changing attitudes and ideas about race and the impact of immigration over the centuries. This programme of online, on foot and on film alternative tours promises a fresh look at the capital’s rich history and to take us behind the scenes. Here is a glimpse of where the inimitable guides will take us on our PC screens or on foot. To book a place on an alternative tour or find out more about the tours on offer visit www.worldwrite.org.uk/londonbehindthescenes

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[theestever]

@albion2742 You should win a prize or something, along with all the other racist filth here, for totally missing the point. The East End has been drawing immigrants to it for long before your father was a twinkle in his fathers eye. Grow up. It's no more your East End than it is theirs.

[albion2742]

Its about my old east end and what do I see narrating Foreigners

[TheErcan86]

@clazza01 i am sure you are jewish , jews come to europa and usa and speak for the real innhabitans .

[ThomasAUSTRALIA1]

@DontTrustAMan...... So what do we do with all the Poms who migrate to other countries? I'm an Aussie living and working in Hong Kong, a densely populated "country". There are thousands of Poms living here permanently, taking jobs form the locals, like I am. So what do we do? Send all the Poms back? Global migration is in full force and there is nothing we can do about it.

[trippy119]

@clazza01 ha ha...well at least kick em out, i dont like them either and britain would be far better off without them

[clazza01]

@trippy119 all muslims should be gassed

[DontTrustAMan]

The real problem of immigration is numbers. There is no space for more to come and live here. Over crowded buses/trains, schools, hospitals, shortage of housing etc. We have enough living in UK do we really need anymore coming in. And still there are so many people but not enough working and paying taxes to cover the costs of everything to run in the UK. What a shame. The welfare bill is far too big to even mention.

[trippy119]

@DontTrustAMan our problem isnt islam, its thick uneducated pakistanis who have a warped distorted concept of islam, basically britain accepted the worst kind of muslim, the wrong muslims, who give islam a bad name unfortunately and they also piss off decent muslims. we fucked up!

[lonelytravel21]

Citizens of the world! Immigrants aren't taking anyone's job. Most companies have sweat shops overseas - where the people there are oppressed. Those are the people who took the jobs, the owners! And what troubles me, is that many young people are becoming anti-immigrant, and blaming them for the credit crisis. The BNP is getting more and more young recruits, for their racist, anti-immigrant agenda. Remember, we're all from somewhere! One day they're be passports to central London!