[TV] The Promised Land - A Film About Whitechapel

[Yabs]

Reelstreets is a location-spotter site with a lot of good stills uploaded. There are several films there with actual East-End locations...

Reelstreets | Kid for Two Farthings, A

M.

Hi Mark.

I love that website, I’ve got a bit of a thing for checking out movie and tv programs filming locations.

[Mark J D]

... I love that website, I’ve got a bit of a thing for checking out movie and tv programs filming locations...

:-)

The Vallance Road bits in 'A Kid For Two Farthings' actually show the very house -- north of the railway arch -- where the Krays were growing up...

M.

[DJA]

Diana Dors,Sonia in the movie,was a close friend of the Kray brothers who grew up at 178 Vallance Road from 1938.

Watching the movie now.

[caz]

A fascinating TV documentary of Whitechapel. Not sure if it has been shared before or even what year it was aired.

Many thanks for sharing, ero. Just watched this and found it very moving.

I had a lovely meal in Bloom's Restaurant one lunch hour in 1978, when I was working for a merchant bank near The Monument. I barely knew Whitechapel then, and had no knowledge of JtR, but just loved the atmosphere. I completely disagree with FISHY about the murders defining the area.

Wonderful to see a much younger Bill Fishman in action too. He gave a talk at the old Cloak & Dagger in the early 2000s and only died a few years ago, in his nineties. I note that he was born in London, the son of an immigrant tailor from Russia and his Ukrainian wife. I can't imagine what he'd have thought about the terrible events going on today.

Love,

Caz
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