Bringing the Cable Street Mural to life

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The Cable Street mural was painted to celebrate the victory against fascism and the Blackshirts on 4th October 1936. This became known as the Battle of Cable Street.


	Find out more about what happened at the Battle of Cable Street

The mural was planned in 1979 and finally finished in 1993. The mural features some of the people who actually took part, as well as other figures who ‘ represent’ people from the East End today. The shops you can see existed, and all the activities taking place happened. More about who painted the mural>>

THE CHARACTERS SPEAK OUT

Pupils from Year 5&6 from Mayflower, Bygrove, Culloden, Manorfield and Lansbury Lawrence primary schools in Poplar have done some work on the mural using history and ITC. They used empathy skills to think about what the people shown in the mural might have been feeling and thinking at the time.


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These are some of the comments so far:

Your Comments:

I think the mural is a shameful whitewash by people who were not there and who want to avoid the ugly reality of anti-Semitism in London`s East End. Moseley and his 3,000 men marched throughout the East End in 1936, smashing the shop windows of every Jewish merchant on Mile End. It is no wonder the Jews who survived the Blitz moved from the area. I give walks around the markets in the East End, and was told by more than one Jewish trader about the reasons why so few remain. One trader was kicked to death. In trying to make `genocide` an universal term, let us try not to forget what really has happened and is happening to the Jews.

Sandra Shevey on 08/03/2006

EET says: I am sorry that you think that the mural is a whitewash by people who were not there. The images and events portrayed in the mural were taken directly from witnesses who were at the Battle of Cable St, interviewed and tape recorded by Dave Binnington and Desmond Rochford in 1976 by the Tower Hamlets Arts Project. For more detail see "The Battle of Cable Street 1936" by the Cable Street Group, published 1995 ISBN number 0 9526827 0 2

I am overwhelmed with the depth of feeling in your stories. May you be blessed for your efforts to bring all races, colours and creeds together in peace and health.

Louis Dias Stepney Jewish on 08/12/2004

EET says: Thank You for your lovely comment, Louis.

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