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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 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 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 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.”
Hace 4 días · These days, with his gentle blue eyes and white locks, Reverend Dr Malcolm Johnson is one of the most even-tempered radicals that you could meet, yet the work he did at St Botolph’s in Aldgate was truly extraordinary in its bold and compassionate nature. From 1974 until 1992, Malcolm was responsible for the ‘wet’ shelter that operated in ...
Hace 1 día · 142 Commercial Street, Spitalfields, Shoreditch Charlie Brown's (Railway Tavern) ***** c.1840 Garford Street and the West India Dock Road. Demolished 1989. George Tavern: Pauline Forster: 1820 II 373 Commercial Road Golden Heart, Spitalfields: Truman's Brewery 1926 II 110 Commercial Street The Gun, Coldharbour: Early 18th century II 27 ...
Hace 2 días · As a consequence, a reader of Spitalfields Life walked into the Institute and donated a series of four group portraits of rope makers at Frost Brothers which I publish here. I find these pictures even more interesting than the ones I first showed because, while the photos in the Album illustrate the work of the factory, in these newly-revealed photos the subject is the rope makers themselves.
