Background

Three unique walking tours of the Jewish East End.
These are the only tours we do, so you can gather we're in love with our subject.
Let our enthusiasm rub off on you.

1. The area of Whitechapel and Spitalfields covers barely a square mile yet, out of the poverty surrounding the Jewish immigrants of the late 19th century and early 20th century, have come luminaries in the area of literature, science, entertainment and business, such as Isaac Zangwill, Jacob Bronowski, Jack Cohen (Tescos), Alan Sugar, Bud Flanagan, Joe Loss, Harold Pinter, Lew Grade, Bernard Delfont, Vidal Sassoon, Lionel Blair, Claire Rayner etc.

2. These immigrants were escaping the pogroms in Russia and Eastern Europe. One such traveller was Morry Cohen, my great grandfather

He arrived on a boat from Hamburg in 1893 from a small stetl, called Nashin, near Kiev. He settled in 43 Plumbers Row, Whitechapel.

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