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| Cable Street Mural |
| The Cable Street Mural commemorates the 1936 Battle of Cable Street. In a deliberately provocative move, Oswald Mosley's 2,000 Blackshirts (BUF) tried to stir up anti-Jewish feeling with a march through the East End. 500 anti-Fascists and local Jewish residents confronted them in Cable Street. A pitched battle ensued, Blackshirts got the worst of it and the police ordered Oswald Mosley to retreat. |
| The mural, painted on to the side of the old St George's Town Hall in 1982, was inspired by artist Dave Binnington. A special varnish has been applied to help ease the eradication of pro-Fascist graffiti. |
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100 and D3 go along Cable Street. |
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Cable Street is so named as ships' cables were made here during the 18th Century. |
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