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The itinerary is likely to include some (or all) of the following:
The church on Sandys Row, originally Huguenot, refashioned as a still-functioning synagogue formed by Dutch Jewish immigrants of the 1850s/60s
Petticoat Lane which had traders over the last 300 years variously from German, Dutch and East European Jewish communities, Indian and Bengali traders
The site of the Jews Free School from 1822-1839 and find out about the cultural as well as pedagogical approach there
Wentworth street at the heart of the clothing trade in the East End in which Belgians, French, Huguenots, Irish, East European Jewish, Bengali have been working and several cloth and textile shops are now owned and run by West Africans.
Commercial Street where we will see Toynbee Hall - a project of Christian social reformers whose anti-poverty work addressed itself to a diverse populace - addressing some specific cultural linguistic needs, and also reference the small 1920s/1930s Bengali community that existed nearby.
Aldgate East, known then as Gardiners Corner on October 4 1936 - the day of the Battle of Cable Street.
Altab Ali Park highlighting the larger settlement of Bengalis and the events of the 1970s culminating in the murder of Altab Ali
