Brick Lane and Heneage Street , 1974–5
49 x 46.2 cm (h x w)
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© John Allin estate

Allin depicts the intersection between Brick Lane and Heneage Street in Spitalfields, the area which has housed successive generations of immigrant textile makers: from the French Huguenot refugee weavers in the 17th century, to the Jewish tailors who settled in the 19 th -20 th century - giving rise to the 'Schmattes' (rag trade) - later succeeded by the Bangladeshi community. Drawing on memories of his East End childhood, he includes a rabbi chatting to a group of young men outside the Heneage Street Synagogue (which closed in 1972), with Pendora's 'universal' fashions above, and a horse-drawn cart trundling slowly down Brick Lane in the background.

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