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Hace 2 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 · 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 1 día · Spitalfields Market. Th e present site of the market includes the area occupied in about 1680 by the roughly rectangular space known as Spital Field or Spital Square, (fn. n1) bounded by Lamb Street, Crispin Street, Paternoster Row (the present eastern end of Brush field Street, also referred to as Great Paternoster Row or Street) and Red Lion ...
Hace 1 día · 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 · Click for tickets for The Gentle Author’s Tour of Spitalfields on Saturday 1st June. The central contribution of women in the East End to the Suffrage Movement is not always recognised, so we present researcher Vicky Stewart & designer Adam Tuck ‘s map of some key events in the struggle in Bethnal Green, Roman Rd & Bow.
Hace 4 días · It’s 100 years ago this year that the British Empire Exhibition was held in Wembley Park. Located on a more than 200 acre site, the exhibition was designed to showcase the diversity and reach of the empire. It ran for two six-month long summer seasons – first opening on 23rd April, 1924, and running until 1st November that year and then ...
Hace 2 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 ...
