Mile End
Mile End is a neighborhood in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in the East End of London. The district goes back to a medieval village, located just a mile away on the road to Colchester from Aldgate City of London was.
History
The origin of the village was located on the street of the Mile End Road. Along this there were a few houses. Until the 17th century here was, however, a well-known and well -used gathering place of the London population. Here practiced the urban militia, markets and shows were held on the fields at the Mile End Road. Historically significant is Mile End, as here took place the meeting between the English king and Wat Tyler during the Peasant Uprising in the 14th century. Only with the population growth in the early modern period began basic speculators and home builder in the fields of Mile End to use. The city extended from Spitalfields from her. Originally a rural place where the rich London as James Cook built their houses, the district experienced the social development of the East End and became the residence for workers and immigrants. Mile End in 1855 came to London and was until its dissolution part of the district of Stepney. The area of the historic Mile End is protected as Stepney Green Cobservation Area since 1973. Its territory extends primarily to the streets Mile End Road and Stepney Green.
Beginning of the 20th century, Mile End a strong proportion of Jewish population from which testify some Jewish cemeteries today. The former electoral district for the House of Mile End was one of only two constituencies in England, where ever a communist won a direct mandate. The first V- 1 rocket, which was fired from Germany to London, suggested in Mile End. In the 1960s this was one of the strongholds of the hooligan scene developed in football. The Mile End transitional attended games of the East - end clubs West Ham United and beating during the week with other gangs in East London. He is now one of the neighborhoods of the United Kingdom with the highest percentage of immigrants, especially people from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Somalia. Member of the successor district Bethnal Green and Bow, previously a bastion of the Labour Party from 2005 to 2010, George Galloway for Respect - The Unity Coalition, also a parliamentarian, who left the incumbent party spectrum locates itself.
Infrastructure
In the neighborhood are the underground station Mile End, Mile End Park and Mile End Stadium. The Queen Mary College, University of London has here a part of their doctrine and their hostels. The Mile End Road is an old main street, and then led by the City of London to Mile End to the east.
Culture
Pop culture of the place is known by a song of the group Pulp, which is on the soundtrack to the film Trainspotter. The content consists of a group of squatters who occupied a dilapidated 15 -story apartment building from the 1970s. The videos for the songs Confusion Girl by Frankmusik and the song Heart Skips a Beat originated in Mile End Park.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Johnny Leach ( * 1922 ), table tennis world champion