From the Mirror archives

July 1962

Angry demonstrators gather at Ridley Road in London’s East End to protest against a rally planned by Sir Oswald Mosley’s far-right Union Movement. The event had to be abandoned after the infamous former leader of the British Union of Fascists was pushed to the ground. The incident brought back memories of the running battles fought between Mosley’s supporters, known as Blackshirts, and anti-facist demonstrators in the 1930s – particularly the Battle of Cable Street which took place in the East End in 1936.