Walk The Line Movie Cash

Posted on December 09, 2011 by Admin
Walk The Line Movie Cash

Walk The Line Movie Cash

When Westfield opened the second of its shopping malls in London's east end the citizens of Stratford's most deprived boroughs of Hackney and Newham poured in like fans rushing to the front of Wembley Stadium for Live Aid, 1986. On the Mall's opening day alone over 160,000 people crammed into John Lewis and paced the ritzy shopping arcades of Prada and low cost alternatives such as Primark. Never before have so many of London's citizens who have had so little experienced so much luxury and space. According to London Mayor Boris Johnson, who presided over the opening (with pop stars Nicole Scherzinger, retail mogul Phillip Green and former Olympic athletes) the mall represents “the most regeneration east London has seen since the Middle Ages.” For those from the east end it must have come as a remarkable awakening.

From Canada's East Coast to London's East End

As a Canadian living in the East End of London I cannot pretend to be a local who has lived through the worst of the deprivation of the London's East End War years, nor do I have any great inside knowledge of the regions most famous citizens, David Beckham, Alfred HiItchcock, the Krays or Jack the Ripper. What I knew of the east end of London I knew from a creaky 1970's black and white television, books in my father's study and what my father, a native North Londoner, told me as a boy growing up in the maritime provinces in Canada: "The East End of London was a rough place, full of gangsters, thugs, dodgy builders, cheeky chappies who loved a punt at the local bookies." It was a place to go through, not a place to stop and live in! Therefore as a native of Canada and having arrived here at the advanced age of 36, I can not claim to have suffered through the poor transportation links the lack of transport services, the grinding poverty, the bitter lack of hope in the faces of the deprived communities from those times.