Squatters Walk Project


Developed by the Community Participants


  1. Start at Altab Ali Park – the location of the 1978 murder of Altab Ali
  2. Pelham Buildings – the first organised BHAG squatting
  3. Nelson Street – Bangladeshi squatters
  4. Verdan Street – Bangladeshi squatters
  5. Rampert Street – Bangladeshi squatters and Prince Charles visit in 1987
  6. Whitechapel Centre – training and cultural activities
  7. Fieldgate Mansions – Squatters
  8. Tayyeb Restaurant (former Queen’s Head Pub, George the Pole)
  9. Tower House – single person accommodation
  10. Myrdle Street and Parfett Street – famous squatter resistance and eviction, creative squatters and Sylhet Housing Cooperative properties
  11. Kobi Nazrul School – the school founded through the struggles unleashed by the Bangladeshi squatters
  12. Finish at Stepney Community Trust (St Mary’s Centre)
Struggles of Bangladeshi Squatters

Struggles of Bangladeshi Squatters of Myrdle Street and Parfett Street (1975-1995)

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