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Topic: Spitalfields


In the News (Mon 20 May 13)

  
  Around Spitalfields
Spitalfields, famous for its market and rambling Victorian lanes, is at the heart of the East End.
Spitalfields has always attracted an artistic community and remains a vibrant centre for the arts.
Spitalfields is an area steeped in diversity, both in the community it supports and the variety of entertainment it has to offer.
www.spitalfieldsfestival.org.uk /area.htm   (517 words)

  
 Spitalfields Market - Visit London
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With an International line-up of established and emerging photographers, photomonth offers a comprehensive programme of talks and events designed to promote interest and participation in contemporary photography and focus attention on the changing face of East London.
www.visitspitalfields.com   (0 words)

  
  Discover Tower Hamlets - Area guides - Spitalfields and Banglatown
Spitalfields lies at the heart of the East End of London and is famous for its bustling street markets.
Spitalfields covered market was built in 1682 and is a fine example of the hamlet's architecture.
To the south of Spitalfields is Whitechapel Road, which is world famous as the only East End street on the Monopoly board.
www.towerhamlets.gov.uk /data/discover/data/spitalfields/index.cfm   (589 words)

  
 New Spitalfields Market
New Spitalfields houses the largest number of wholesalers and has the highest turnover, making it the UK's leading horticultural market.
The continuing specialisation by wholesalers in exotic fruit and vegetables means that New Spitalfields provides the greatest choice of these products of any market in Europe.
Operating under a Royal Charter granted in 1682, Spitalfields moved out of the City in 1991 and now occupies a purpose-built 31 acre site in Leyton, East London.
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk /our_services/markets/spitalfields.htm   (312 words)

  
  EoLFHS Parishes: Spitalfields
Spitalfields: the fields to the east of medieval priory and hospital of St. Mary Spital.
Christ Church Spitalfields was erected in 1714-1729 to cater for the rapidly growing population and as an attempt to combat the nonconformity of the area that had existed from 1612 with the first Baptist church in England.
Spitalfields gained the reputation in the 18th century as the centre of production of fine silks and in 1807 the population had reached over 15,000.
www.eolfhs.org.uk /parish/spitalfields.htm   (349 words)

  
 Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Spitalfields (Part II)
In 1682 Spitalfields had grown to some size and in that year Charles II granted a Charter to hold a market.
When Spitalfields came to be constituted a parish, this neighbourhood on its east side was called the "New Town," although in it was included Black Eagle Street, where as early as 1669 Truman's brewery was established.
With the gradual intermingling of the foreign with the native population, and by the influx of new inhabitants and the removal of the old, the French element became lessened.
www.casebook.org /victorian_london/spital2.html   (1192 words)

  
 Tarn & Tarn Welcome you to visit the Spitalfields area of Londons East End:
Spitalfields has a vast and multi-cultural history, its name was derived from a hospital and priory known as St. Mary's Spital, founded in 1197, but it wasn't until after the Great Fire of London in the mid 17 th Century that Spitalfields began to take shape as the cosmopolitan place it has become today.
Spitalfields has gone through substantial regeneration in recent years, this is epitomised with the regeneration of Spitalfields market and Bishops Square ; the new home for leading lawyers Allen and Overy.
Spitalfields houses a rich and eclectic mix of people, attracted to Spitalfields because of the area's unique character coupled with the stunning ‘loft' apartments and beautifully restored Georgian houses that still line the streets.
www.tarn-tarn.co.uk /visit-spitalfields   (440 words)

  
 Properties to rent in Spitalfields
Spitalfields, E1 Enviably located just off fashionable Brick Lane, this breathtaking two bedroomed interior designed apartment enjoys a luxurious attention to detail and a high specification finish throughout.
Spitalfields, E1 This is a fantastic, two bed pad, with plenty of space for entertaining friends and family, the reception room leads onto a private balcony with great views.
Spitalfields, E1 This property is set in a fantastic location moments away from a fantastic selection of shops, bars and restaurants.
www.foxtons.co.uk /properties/uk-london-spitalfields-215/properties-to-rent-in-spitalfields.html   (183 words)

  
 spitalfields
Spitalfields takes its name from a hospital and priory known as St. Mary’s Spital founded in 1197.
Industry and “dirty trades” developed in Spitalfields and the area beyond Aldgate outside the City boundaries – these included the leather industry and brewing.
Spitalfields was known for its music halls, which grew out of music rooms at the back of pubs.
www.spitalfields.org.uk /didyouknow.html   (961 words)

  
 Spitalfields Mathematical Society (London)
The Spitalfields Mathematical Society was founded in 1717 by Joseph Middleton who taught mathematics to sailors who required mathematical skills for navigating.
It met in a public house, the Monmouth's Head, in Spitalfields which is a district just outside the east side of the city of London.
In the year 1772, another Mathematical Society, then held at the Black Swan, Brown's Lane, Spitalfields was, at the request of its members (who brought with them their books and instruments, etc.) incorporated into the Society: and in the year 1982 the Society removed to the aforesaid Black Swan...
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Societies/Spitalfields.html   (817 words)

  
 London Shopping: Spitalfields Market
A recent marketing campaign comes as the market is set to undergo minor structural development, and the Spitalfields Marketing Group, a board made up of retailers and restaurateurs, hopes to raise its profile amongst the rubble of nearby building work.
Spitalfields is mainly known for its daily markets, where aspiring artists and designers hawk makeshift stalls full of their crafts.
What Spitalfields is doing that Camden and Covent Garden are not, is holding on to its grassroots with a white-knuckled-death-grip, and the result is a flourishing arts community with the twinkle of growing crowds and frequent celebrity clientele.
www.londonnet.co.uk /ln/guide/about/shopping_spitalfields.html   (555 words)

  
 London Apartments: Spitalfields
Spitalfields, an area in Tower Hamlets, east London near to Liverpool Street station and Brick Lane which gets its name from a contraction of 'hospital fields', as there used to be a major hospital in the area.
Today, Spitalfields is home to a vibrant Jewish community.
Spitalfields was long associated with the silk industry, established by French Protestant (Huguenot) refugees who settled in the area after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685).
www.2-londonapartments.com /london-apartments/2006/04/spitalfields.html   (169 words)

  
 Spitalfields Pt 5 (1932)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Until then, the magistrates had the power of limiting the number of threads to an inch in the fabric, of deciding the widths of many sorts of work, and of determining the quantity of labour not to be exceeded without extra wages.
That the operation of these Acts was confined to a prescribed locality was extremely unfavourable to Spitalfields; for manufacturers were at liberty to undertake elsewhere the same kind of work and pay for it, without breaking the law, at a great reduction.
In 1831 there were working 14,000 to 17,000 looms in the Spitalfields district, which had a population of about 100,000 persons, half of which number were entirely dependent on the weaving industry.
www.mernick.co.uk /thhol/spital5.html   (1091 words)

  
 Christ Church, Spitalfields, London E1 : tourist information from TourUK
London E1 The 225 foot triangular spire of Christ Church, Spitalfields, dominates the surrounding area.
Christ Church, Spitalfields was commissioned by parliament under the Fifty New Churches Act of 1711, aimed to combat the spread of Non-Conformism (to the established Church of England).
As a result Spitalfields became too poor to maintain Christ Church and the building fell into disrepair.
www.touruk.co.uk /london_churches/christchurch_church1.htm   (391 words)

  
 SMUT: Spitalfields Market Under Threat Website   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Spitalfields is the venue for one of Britain's longest-running planning disputes.
WALK into Spitalfields, on the achingly trendy frontier of London's East End and the City, and you cannot miss the signs that one of the country's epic planning battles is approaching its endgame.
Similar agonising is going on at the Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust, which is anxious not to kill off a half-good scheme if that would simply lead to a worse one.
www.smut.org.uk /smut_press.asp?link=press&id=20021105   (1188 words)

  
 Official Guide to Spitalfields Shops, Restaurants and Events
The latest addition to Spitalfields Fine Food Market is getting pulses racing - and queues forming.
Give your afternoon a boost and try a fantastic live oyster or two for lunch from McManus Brothers.
Spitalfields health and beauty shop SEN is offering a free consultation (worth £20) to all hair loss sufferers.
www.spitalfields.co.uk   (0 words)

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