Brady Street

Brady Street is a road located in Whitechapel, East London. The top ends joins onto Whitechapel Road and the bottom end onto Three Colts Lane, near Bethnal Green railway station. Until the 1970s the Brady Street Dwellings stood in Brady Street. They were demolished and Swanley School now stands on the site. Durward Street, formerly Bucks Row, is a road off Brady Street, where Jack the Ripper victim Mary Ann Nichols was murdered on 31 August 1888. A Sainsbury's, opened in the 1990s stands opposite Durward Street, and recently the car park has been redeveloped into a multi storey. A youth gang known as the Brady Street Massive is known to operate in this area and are linked to the local drug trade, kidnapping and extortion. At the head of the street is the Idea Store, a 12m development opened in 2006. Somerford Street and other roads on the Collingwood Estate are off Brady Street.