![]() ![]() ![]() If you keep your eyes as well as your mouth open and are streetwise, you avoid it. ![]() Actual physical violence has never happen ed to me. We called the police on a group once and when they were caught they admitted to it immediately but replied that they were “bored”. Their parents must be very proud of them. Nearly all these teenagers keep themselves hidden - we have had eggs thrown at us from windows, just seeing the arm with the thrower hidden behind a curtain and water bombs thrown from the balconies of buildings in succession from boys we have seen ducking down again. ‘About once every six months group will be pelted with water bombs if we should stop on the street I have personally never had trouble if we have been on the move. Granted, that incident had to do with concerns of Bangladeshi culture, but what if East End ethnic interests or the local council move against Ripper tours? Tour guide Philip Hutchinson told me in a recent email, ‘The mood towards Ripper guides in the East End is very mixed and such reactions are dependant on several factors - the weather, the actual location, the amount of people on the tour and the amount of other people on the street.’ He confirmed his personal experience of hostility from local youths. In this issue, we report on how the Bangladeshi community in Shoreditch mobilized to stop filming of the movie ‘Brick Lane’ based on the novel of the same name by Monica Ali. ![]()
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