All photography by Alessandra Chila (except where otherwise credited), taken in 
Tower Hamlets and Leyton, London, March 2006

_{Mural (1976-93) commemorating the Battle of Cable Street in October 1936 when East Londoners, including Jews, Socialists and Communist groups, forced back fascist Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts as they attempted to march through the area under the protection of the police}

_{Monument to Edward VII on Whitechapel High Street (circa 1905). Poor Jewish inhabitants of the East End donated money to erect this memorial as a show of loyalty and gratitude to the Crown in the context of mounting state and informal racism in the UK and Poland}