Battle of Cable Street

Battlefield in/near St George in the East, existed in 1936.

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The Battle of Cable Street was a series of clashes that took place at several locations in the East End - notably Cable Street - on Sunday 4 October 1936.

It was a clash between the Metropolitan Police - sent to protect a march by members of the British Union of Fascists - and various anti-fascist demonstrators, including local trade unionists, anarchists, communists, socialists, British Jews and even gangsters led by Jack ’Spot’ Comer.

It had become known that the British Union of Fascists (BUF) were organising a march to take place through the heart of the East End, an area that then had a large Jewish population. The planned route would take the Blackshirts from Tower Hill through Limehouse, Bow, Mile End to Bethnal Green and Shoreditch, with open-air meetings of local BUF supporters along the way.

Anti-fascist demonstrators - maybe 100 000 in number - were met by 7000 policemen (including mounted police), who attempted to clear the road to permit the march of 3000 fascists to proceed.

Barricades were constructed near the junction with Christian Street (Stepney) but the main confrontation took place around Gardiner’s department store in Whitechapel. Police attempted to clear a route, but the demonstrators fought back with improvised weapons.

The BUF marchers were dispersed towards Hyde Park while the anti-fascists fought with police. About 150 demonstrators were arrested, although some escaped with the help of other demonstrators. Around 175 people were injured.

Following the incident, the Public Order Act 1936 outlawed the wearing of political uniforms.


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Gillian   
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No 36 Upper East Smithfield
My great great grandfather was born at No 36 Upper East Smithfield and spent his early years staring out at a "dead wall" of St Katharine’s Docks. His father was an outfitter and sold clothing for sailors. He describes the place as being backed by tenements in terrible condition and most of the people living there were Irish.

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Whilst clearing my elderly Mothers house of general detritus, I’ve come across original plans (one on acetate) of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street. Might they be of interest or should I just dispose of them? There are 4 copies seemingly from the one single acetate example. Seems a shame to just junk them as the level of detail is exquisite. No worries if of no interest, but thought I’d put it out there.

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My great grandparents x 6 lived in New Inn Yard. On this date, their son was baptised in nearby St Leonard’s Church, Shoreditch

Source: BDM London, Cripplegate and Shoreditch registers written by church clerk.

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The postcode is SE15, NOT SE1

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Interestingly South Lambeth derives its name from the same source as Lambeth itself - a landing place for lambs.

But South Lambeth has no landing place - it is not on the River Thames

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George Gut (1853 - 1861)
George Gut, Master Baker lived with his family in Long Lane.
George was born in Bernbach, Hesse, Germany and came to the UK sometime in the 1840s. In 1849, George married an Englishwoman called Matilda Baker and became a nauralized Englishman. He was given the Freedom of the City of London (by Redemption in the Company of Bakers), in 1853 and was at that time, recorded as living at 3 Long Lane. In the 1861 census, George Gut was living at 11 Long Lane.

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William Sutton Thwaites was the father of Frances Lydia Alice Knorr nee Thwaites�’�’she was executed in 1894 in Melbourne, Victoria Australia for infanticide. In the year prior to his marriage, to her mother Frances Jeanette Thwaites nee Robin, William Sutton was working as a tailor for Mr Orchard who employed four tailors in the hamlet of Mile End Old Town on at Crombies Row, Commercial Road East.

Source: 1861 England Census Class: Rg 9; Piece: 293; Folio: 20; Page: 2; GSU roll: 542608

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