JEWISH
EAST END OF LONDON PHOTO GALLERY & COMMENTARY
London's East End Synagogues, cemeteries and more......
My personal journey through the Jewish East End of London
Jewish London Walking Tours with
Phil...to
enquire about a tour please email
Phil
It's
my hobby to take
informative and educational
walking tours around London's Jewish East End and London's Jewish West End. I
also have a walk that takes in historic Limehouse and Poplar -
an area of more general interest but with some surprising Jewish
connections.
My tours are reasonably priced and make great presents for
special people. I can usually fit in with your required
dates/times so to enquire about a tour, or arrange one for
yourself or your group please email
Phil
All my customers are entitled to a 10% discount off a
meal at
London's premier Kosher restaurant:
Restaurant
1701 located in the secluded courtyard of
historic Bevis Marks Synagogue, Bevis Marks, London EC3A 7LH.
Ask me for your discount card.
Regrettably I cannot undertake any walks in August
Sandy's Row - a street and a synagogue in London E1
I recently took news reporter Cindy Martin of internet
television channel Jewish News One on a walk around Jewish Spitalfields in the East End of London.
Places visited
included Sandys Row synagogue and the Soup Kitchen for the
Jewish Poor in Brune Street. A very cold day, but great fun! You
can see their video report here:
A
walk through London’s historic East-End Jewish quarter
I also took them on a walk round Jewish Soho in London's West
End, and you can see that video here:
A
Walk through London's Jewish West End
I am a member of the
Jewish East End Celebration
Society
and co-produce their magazine
The Cable with my brother
David.
Best wishes, Phil
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Some recent
letters:
Hi Phil,
Just a quick note to thank you very much for today. My parents
and I really enjoyed ourselves and that you had a personal
connection to what you were talking about was really important
to us.
Thank you
Rick
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Philip
We
just wanted to say thank you again for the great morning you
gave us. Your humour and excellent local knowledge made for a
really memorable day. We will definitely recommend you to others
and will explore the possibility of doing it again with a bigger
group of family.
Best regards
Martin
& Emma
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Hi, Phil!
Thank you so much for taking
us around, and for looking up the London Syatts for us.
We've been back home in San Francisco for a week, and while the jetlag has worn off (at
last), the memories of our meander through Grandma's East
End childhood will stay with us for years to come.
Be well, take care and stay in touch.
Karen
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A
selection of photos from some recent Jewish tours are below:
League of Jewish Women West End Jewish walk in Godwin's Court,
Bedfordbury
American friends inside the former Great Garden Street
synagogue, off Hanbury Street
Hebrew grafitti, Bevis Marks synagogue
Magen David above Alberts, Aldgate East
Soup kitchen for the Jewish Poor, Brune Street
My tour group outside the last Jewish owned Chicken shop in
Petticoat Lane
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Pearly King and
Queen, Covent Garden, London's West End |
The artists
Gilbert and George in Fournier Street off Brick Lane,
London's East End |
My Family group in a hidden
courtyard off Hanbury Street |
My group outside the
Jack the Ripper pub in Gunthorpe Street - this
was a cold day!! |
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Walking the Jewish West End in Great Newport St
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Later we visited Soho Square - hub of Jewish
Soho |
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A walking tour with
a group of drama students at the Cable Street
mural getting a feel for Arnold Wesker's play
Chicken Soup with Barley.
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Rabbinic students from the Leo Beck College
visiting Sandys Row synagogue. |
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A relation of David Brandon Bravo discovers
his grave in the
Novo cemetery, Mile End |
A group of academics from Finland visit Sandy's Row
synagogue on their educational tour |
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Inside Fieldgate Street
synagogue |
Inside Nelson Street
synagogue with Sutton & District synagogue |
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A group from
South London
Liberal Synagogue inside Fieldgate Street synagogue |
A group from South London
Liberal and Kingston Liberal synagogues about to have lunch after a
walk round the East End |
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Inside the former East
London synagogue, Rectory Square, Stepney |
Outside the former East
London synagogue, Rectory Square, Stepney |
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A coach tour of the East
End with residents of the Nightingale Home |
A coach tour
of the East End with residents of the Nightingale Home |
Inside Bevis Marks synagogue, a wedding canopy (chuppah) is
ready for a wedding
Dear Philip,
Thank you so much for a
wonderful and insightful introduction to the Jewish East End.
I
still need to sit down and write up my notes – and then can decide
where and what to review again with you. You found the icons,
markers and site points which I would never have identified on my
own.
You also bought the East End alive for me – and I was really able to
imagine what it would have been like for those early immigrants in
1895. Look forward
to our next jaunt.
Kindest regards,
Tracy H.
January 2013
The streets of the Jewish East End of London:
To enquire about a tour please e.mail
Phil
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