"Brick Lane (2007 film) Brick Lane is a 2007 British drama film directed by Sarah Gavron, at her directorial debut, and adapted from the novel of the same name by the British writer Monica Ali, published in 2003. The screenplay was written by Laura Jones and Abi Morgan. The Indian actress Tannishtha Chatterjee played the lead role of Nazneen. The film had its first public screening at the Telluride Film Festival in the United States. The film tells the story of Nazneen, who grew up in rural Bangladesh, in the district of Mymensingh. At 17 she has an arranged marriage"
"is the location for Monica Ali's book ""Brick Lane"", published in 2003, and the film of 2007 starring Tannishtha Chatterjee. The novel provoked a controversy with some of the local South Asian community because of a perceived negative portrayal of them. Parts of the Bengali community were particularly opposed to plans by Ruby Films to film parts of the novel in the Brick Lane area and formed the ""Campaign Against Monica Ali's Film Brick Lane."" Consequently, the producers of the film used different locations for certain scenes, such as that depicting Brick Lane Market. Despite this, the director of the"
"dog-free area and a flower garden. The neighbouring areas of London are Brixton, Camberwell, Denmark Hill, Herne Hill, North Dulwich and Stockwell. The area features in the novel by Stella Duffy ""The Room Of Lost Things"", set in a dry cleaners on Coldharbour Lane. In a 2003 London Evening Standard journalist David Cohen described Coldharbour Lane, on which Loughborough Junction is situated, as the most dangerous street in the most dangerous borough in London. The headline asked whether the street is 'the most dangerous in Britain'. Three graffiti artists died when they were hit by a train at Loughborough Junction"
"as ""White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings"" (1987). A more realistic fictionalisation on the contemporary gentrification of the area, and the rise of the yuppie, is provided by Penelope Lively in ""Passing On"" (1989) and ""City of the Mind"" (1991) and by P. D. James in ""Original Sin"" (1994). Emblematic of the current worldwide clash of civilisations between West and East, of which the East End has historically been a microcosm, are Monica Ali's (1967– ) novel ""Brick Lane"" (2003), and Salman Rushdie's fantastic and controversial ""The Satanic Verses"" (1988) which also uses Brick Lane as a location. One of the earliest"
"Earls Terrace Earls Terrace is a street in Kensington, London, W8. It has houses on one side only, a terrace of 23 Georgian houses, all of which are Grade II listed. The street overlooks Kensington High Street, with a grass and garden in front, and backs onto Edwardes Square. The entire terrace of 23 houses was redeveloped by Northacre, adding underground garages, and in 2001 sold for a total of £95 million. The communal garden is in size, and is not open to the public. The pop singer Madonna once rented there, and children's author J. K. Rowling had a"
"Lordship Lane, Southwark Lordship Lane is an ancient thoroughfare, once rural, in East Dulwich, a suburb of the London Borough of Southwark in southeast London, England, and forms part of the A2216. It runs north-south from Goose Green to Wood Vale. The Lordship Lane & North Cross Road area now has a wide selection of bars, restaurants and specialist retailers for the 'foodie' market. The architecturally meritorious Dulwich Library, which opened on 24 November 1897, is on the lane. Lordship Lane is also home of the unusual listed building, the so-called ""Concrete House"". The children's author, Enid Blyton was born"
"describing the commercialization of these practices. In 2013, Ali was announced as one of several new models for Marks & Spencer's 'Womanism' campaign. Subtitled ""Britain's leading ladies"", the campaign saw Ali appear alongside British women from various fields, including pop singer Ellie Goulding, double Olympic gold medal winning boxer Nicola Adams, and actress Helen Mirren. Ali lives in South London with her husband, Simon Torrance, a management consultant. They have two children, Felix (born 1999) and Shumi (born 2001). Monica Ali Monica Ali (born 20 October 1967) is a Bangladeshi-born British writer and novelist. In 2003, she was selected as"
"of a march composed in 1951 by Arnold Steck. It was the name of a street in Bethnal Green, now called Columbia Road, and is also the name of a road on the Mackworth Estate in Derby. ""Birdcage Walk"" is also the name of a novel by Helen Dunmore, first published in 2017, although here the ""Birdcage Walk"" in question is located not in London but in Clifton, Bristol. Birdcage Walk Birdcage Walk is a street in the City of Westminster in London. It runs east-west as a continuation of Great George Street, from the crossroads with Horse Guards Road"
"in 2004. The Altab Ali Park near Adler Street was formerly a church site but was destroyed during the Blitz. It was renamed to 'Altab Ali Park' in memory of a Bangladeshi clothing worker who was the victim of a racially motivated murder on 4 May 1978, and of other victims of racist attacks during the 1970s. A library, the Whitechapel Idea Store, constructed in 2005 at a cost of £12 million by William Verry to a design by David Adjaye, was nominated for the 2006 Stirling Prize. Whitechapel features in Charles Dickens's ""Pickwick Papers"" (chapter 22) as the location"
"""Rumpole's Last Case"" by John Mortimer; in a The Matrix-based story, ""Goliath"", by Neil Gaiman. It features often in novels by Mark Billingham and in ""The Lonely Londoners"" by Sam Selvon. Sherlock Holmes once said that he purchased his Stradivarius from ""a Jew broker in the Tottenham Court Road."" It is mentioned briefly as the location where 'I' was allegedly arrested for 'toilet trading' in the 1986 Bruce Robinson cult-classic movie ""Withnail and I"". Mrs. Eysnford-Hill, Freddy's mother, lives in Tottenham Court Road, according to Professor Henry Higgins (""My Fair Lady""). Also it is where one person becomes victim to"
"King's Road King's Road or Kings Road (or sometimes the King's Road, especially when it was the King's private road until 1830, or as a colloquialism by middle/upper class London residents), is a major street stretching through Chelsea and Fulham, both in west London. It is associated with 1960s style, and fashion figures such as Mary Quant and Vivienne Westwood. Sir Oswald Mosley's Blackshirt movement had a barracks on the street in the 1930s. King's Road runs for just under through Chelsea, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, from Sloane Square in the east (on the border with"
"trilogy, and was the setting for George and Weedon Grossmith's ""Diary of a Nobody"". A row of Victorian houses, numbers 726–732, opposite Upper Holloway station, stands at the described location of the fictional Brickfield Terrace in ""Diary of a Nobody"". The architecture is typical for buildings on this stretch of the road. Holloway Road Holloway Road is a road in London, in length. It is one of the main shopping streets in North London, and carries the A1 road as it passes through Holloway, in the London Borough of Islington. The road starts at the Archway, near Archway Underground station,"
"of the selections have been prescient. At least 12 of those identified have subsequently either won or been short-listed for major literary awards such as the Man Booker Prize and Whitbread Prize. The recognition of Adam Thirlwell and Monica Ali on the 2003 list was controversial, as neither had yet published a novel. Thirlwell's debut novel, ""Politics"", later met with mixed reviews. Ali's ""Brick Lane"" was widely praised. Dan Rhodes contacted others on the 2003 list to try to persuade them to make a joint statement in protest against the Iraq War, which was gaining momentum at the time. Not"
"Rossetti to The Rolling Stones and Vivienne Westwood. Jane Austen stayed in Sloane Street with her brother Henry whilst writing Pride and Prejudice, and poet and writer Oscar Wilde called the borough his home. The estate includes one of London's most upmarket retailing districts, based on Sloane Street, and also contains some very expensive residential property in some of central London's most sought after residential locations. Originally commissioned by Charles, 1st Earl Cadogan in the 18th century, Sloane Street has evolved to become one of the world’s most exclusive retail destinations – the epitome of London luxury. An impressive list"
"is depicted as a major setting in the bestselling novel by Maria McCann, ""As Meat Loves Salt"", a historical feature set against the English Civil War. Cheapside today is a street of offices and developments of retail outlets. It can no longer be described as ""the busiest thoroughfare in the world"" (as in Charles Dickens, Jr.'s day) and is instead simply one of many routes connecting the East End and the City of London with the West End. Cheapside was extensively damaged during The Blitz in late 1940 and particularly during the Second Great Fire of London. Much of the"
"Finish Productions ""Torchwood"" audio drama ""Ghost Mission"", written by James Goss and released in May 2016. Norton Folgate Norton Folgate is a short length of street in London, connecting Bishopsgate with Shoreditch High Street, on the northern edge of the City of London. It constitutes a short section of the A10 road, the former Roman Ermine Street. Its name is a reminder of the tiny ancient Liberty of Norton Folgate situated in and around the area. The nearest London Underground station is Liverpool Street, also a National Rail mainline railway station. The nearest London Overground station is Shoreditch High Street."
"Road, by St Mary's Churchyard. This murder mobilised the Bangladeshi community in Britain. Demonstrations were held in the area of Brick Lane against the National Front, and groups such as the Bangladesh Youth Movement were formed. On 14 May, over 7,000 people, mostly Bangladeshis, took part in a demonstration against racial violence, marching behind Altab Ali's coffin to Hyde Park. Some youths formed local gangs and carried out reprisal attacks on their skinhead opponents The name Altab Ali became associated with a movement of resistance against racist attacks, and remains linked with this struggle for human rights. His murder was"
"by author Monica Ali. In the 1970s, there was a large rise in the number of attacks on Bangladeshis. Racial tensions in the area had been simmering for 40 years, since Oswald Mosley incited attacks on the older Jewish communities in the 1930s. White power skinhead gangs began to roam the Brick Lane area, where they vandalised property and spat at Bengali children. In Bethnal Green, National Front members handed out leaflets on the streets and assembled people at a pub in Cheshire Street. Bengali children were allowed out of school early, with their mothers walking to work in groups"
"Norton Folgate Norton Folgate is a short length of street in London, connecting Bishopsgate with Shoreditch High Street, on the northern edge of the City of London. It constitutes a short section of the A10 road, the former Roman Ermine Street. Its name is a reminder of the tiny ancient Liberty of Norton Folgate situated in and around the area. The nearest London Underground station is Liverpool Street, also a National Rail mainline railway station. The nearest London Overground station is Shoreditch High Street. It lends its name to a character – played by Samuel Barnett – in the Big"
"home there in 2001. Earls Terrace Earls Terrace is a street in Kensington, London, W8. It has houses on one side only, a terrace of 23 Georgian houses, all of which are Grade II listed. The street overlooks Kensington High Street, with a grass and garden in front, and backs onto Edwardes Square. The entire terrace of 23 houses was redeveloped by Northacre, adding underground garages, and in 2001 sold for a total of £95 million. The communal garden is in size, and is not open to the public. The pop singer Madonna once rented there, and children's author J."
"Cock Lane Cock Lane is a small street in Smithfield in the City of London, leading from Giltspur Street in the east to Snow Hill in the west. In the mediaeval period, it was known as ""Cokkes Lane"" and was the site of legal brothels. 25 Cock Lane is the site where the supposed Cock Lane ghost manifested itself at in 1762, and is also the place where writer John Bunyan, who wrote England's first best-seller, died from a fever in 1688. The junction of Giltspur Street and Cock Lane was known as Pye Corner, famous as marking the furthest"
"now hangs at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Lordship Lane, Southwark Lordship Lane is an ancient thoroughfare, once rural, in East Dulwich, a suburb of the London Borough of Southwark in southeast London, England, and forms part of the A2216. It runs north-south from Goose Green to Wood Vale. The Lordship Lane & North Cross Road area now has a wide selection of bars, restaurants and specialist retailers for the 'foodie' market. The architecturally meritorious Dulwich Library, which opened on 24 November 1897, is on the lane. Lordship Lane is also home of the unusual listed building, the"
"Bolton, England. Her father is originally from the district of Mymensingh. She went to Bolton School and then studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Wadham College, Oxford. ""Brick Lane"" – named after Brick Lane, a street at the heart of London's Bangladeshi community – follows the life of Nazneen, a Bangladeshi woman who moves to London at the age of 18, to marry an older man, Chanu. They live in Tower Hamlets. At first her English consists only of ""sorry"" and ""thank you;"" the novel explores her life and adaptations in the community, as well as the character of Chanu,"
"Cecil Court Cecil Court is a pedestrian street with Victorian shop-frontages in London, England, linking Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. Since the 1930s, it has been known as the new Booksellers' Row and it is sometimes used as a location by film companies. One of the older thoroughfares in Covent Garden, Cecil Court dates back to the end of the 17th century and earlier maps clearly identify a hedgerow running down the street's course. A tradesman's route at its inception, it later acquired the nickname Flicker Alley from the concentration of early film companies in the Court. It"
"lived or practised in Harley Street, including the Victorian Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, the artist J. M. W. Turner and the speech therapist Lionel Logue. Queen's College, founded in 1848 and one of the oldest girls' schools in England, is situated on Harley Street. Fictional References In Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility (1813), the Dashwood sisters, Lucy Steele, Mrs Jennings, Edward Ferrars, and others spend some of their free time there while in London. P.G. Wodehouse’s Sir Roderick Glossop, the “nerve specialist, was said to maintain a practice on Harley Street. In Agatha Christie’s The Secret of Chimneys (1925),"
"Portobello (novel) Portobello is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, published in 2008. It is set in and around the Portobello Road in Notting Hill, London. Written in the third-person narrative mode, it follows the lives of a number of Londoners—rich and poor alike—living near the Portobello Road Market whose paths cross by accident rather than design. In other words, ""Portobello"" is about ""the destinies of an oddly assorted group of people, whose only common characteristic is their postcode."" Throughout the novel, something menacing seems to lurk behind every street corner, and the suspicion that something awful or sinister"
"In 2003 Forster took her Capri onto the streets of London on the day the congestion charge was brought into effect. She had the car pulled by six women from east London to Trafalgar Square while rose petals and the dawn chorus came from the interior. The nature of Pauline Forster's work has led it to be labelled by some of her critics as publicity stunts. Pauline purchased The George Tavern in 2003. The Georgian public house (formerly The Halfway House) is situated in the East End of London in Stepney and is a Grade II listed building. Pauline has"
"2006 the singer Madonna owned a house in The Boltons. The Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind lived in Boltons Place in the 19th century. The Boltons The Boltons is a street and ""Garden Square"" of symmetrical lune shape in the Brompton district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (postcode SW10). The opposing sides of the street face the communal gardens (as two non-semicircular crescents) with large expensive houses, in what is the third-most expensive street in the country. The gardens of the Boltons are Grade II listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. The"
"area features in the 2008 novel by Stella Duffy The Room Of Lost Things, set in a dry cleaners on Coldharbour Lane. Oladipo Agboluaje set a play referencing the street in 2007 ""The Christ of Coldharbour Lane"", about the sudden reappearance of Jesus Christ in Brixton. ref>https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2007/jun/08/theatre1</ref> Parts of Honeytrap, a 2015 film directed by Rebecca Johnson and starring Jessica Sula, were filmed on the street. The rare migrant butterfly, the Camberwell beauty (""Nymphalis antiopa"") was so named after the discovery of two specimens in Coldharbour Lane in 1748. The butterflies had probably arrived as stowaways on ships delivering timber"
"Shaftesbury Avenue Shaftesbury Avenue is a major street in the West End of London, named after Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. It runs north-easterly from Piccadilly Circus to New Oxford Street, crossing Charing Cross Road at Cambridge Circus. From Piccadilly Circus to Cambridge Circus, it is in the City of Westminster, and from Cambridge Circus to New Oxford Street, it is in the London Borough of Camden. Shaftesbury Avenue was built between 1877 and 1886 by the architect George Vulliamy and the engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette to provide a north-south traffic artery through the crowded districts of St."
"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"
"at that early date into peaceful country. Knightsbridge and Sloane Street were not at war, but Chelsea was, and Battersea was in the front line"" The 1978 Dire Straits song ""Wild West End"" (about the London area of the same name) contains the line ""And my conductress on the number 19..."". The route is also referenced in the first line of ""Rudie Can't Fail"" by The Clash. In November 2007, the route was featured in ""Vogue"" as ""one of the 14 most stylish locations in Britain"" The opening pages of Linda Grant's novel ""The Dark Circle"" (published in 2016) describe"
"1943 novel of London during the Blitz, ""The Ministry of Fear"", and later in ""The End of the Affair"". Opposite Northside, on Clapham Common, is Holy Trinity Church, the place of worship that was home to 'The Clapham Sect' the abolitionist group; one of whose members was William Wilberforce. The Clapham Sect was popularised in the 2006 film 'Amazing Grace'. Clapham Common Northside Clapham Common Northside is a road in South West London. One part of it is the A3 which leads to Portsmouth. The 19th-century composer Edvard Grieg stayed in a hotel there while performing in London. The architect"