Cable Street is a road in the East End of London, England, with several historic landmarks nearby.
It was made famous by the Battle of Cable Street in 1936.
Read more about Cable Street: Location, History, Landmarks, Transport, People, Neighbouring Streets
Famous quotes containing the words cable and/or street:
“To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars.”
—Douglass Cross (b. 1920)
“The sturdy Irish arms that do the work are of more worth than oak or maple. Methinks I could look with equanimity upon a long street of Irish cabins, and pigs and children reveling in the genial Concord dirt; and I should still find my Walden Wood and Fair Haven in their tanned and happy faces.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)