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Hace 5 días · Survey of London: Volume 27, Spitalfields and Mile End New Town. Spitalfields is well known for the handsome silk-weavers' houses in and around Spital Square, Fournier Street and Elder Street, with their distinctive weavers' garret workshops.
Hace 4 días · SPITALFIELDS. The Priory of St. Mary, Spittle—A Royal Visit—The Spital Sermons—A Long Sermon—Roman Remains—The Silk Weavers—French Names, and Modern Versions of them—Riots in Spitalfields—Bird Fanciers—Small Heads—"Cat and Dog Money." The original Priory of St. Mary Spittle was founded by Walter Brune and Rosia his wife, in ...
Hace 3 días · The Spitalfields area in the mid-eighteenth century had acquired a degree of homogeneity arising from widespread dependence on the silk-weaving industry, which had already in the first half of the seventeenth century existed in Spitalfields, where it enjoyed proximity to the greatest centre of consumption and to the landing-places for imported material.
Hace 2 días · Wollstonecraft was born on 27 April 1759 in Spitalfields, London. She was the second of the seven children of Elizabeth Dixon and Edward John Wollstonecraft. Although her family had a comfortable income when she was a child, her father gradually squandered it on speculative projects.
25 de may. de 2024 · The Spitalfields portrayed in these pictures has gone and now – for better or worse – we live in the Spitalfields that Raphael Samuel, who died in 1996, wrote of yet did not live to see. Spitalfields is the oldest industrial suburb in London. It was already densely peopled and “almost entirely built over,” in 1701 when Lambeth was still ...
Hace 3 días · The East London line is part of the London Overground, running north to south through the East, Docklands and South areas of London. It was previously a line of the London Underground . Built in 1869 by the East London Railway Company, which reused the Thames Tunnel intended for horse-drawn carriages, the line became part of the London ...
Hace 3 días · Spitalfields Market – threatened with imminent destruction by a coalition of property developers, City Fathers, and conservationists – is almost as old as Spitalfields. It was already in existence when the area was still an artillery range. In John Stow’s ‘Survey of London’ (1601) it appears a trading point “for fruit, fowl and root.”
