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Walk Further information 5 A walk in For more detailed information take a look at www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/data/discover Places to go, things to do To find out more about eating, drinking and shopping in Spitalfields look for the Secrets of to the right. This is close to the 18th Century Stop and look at number 4 (14), which Cross Commercial Street at the pub (16) to get Spitalfields Guide or visit Truman’s brewery complex (10), the chimney of was built in 1726 by Marmaduke Smith, a local carpenter, to . The pub is so named because Christ www.spitalfields.org.uk which can be seen from the street. The brewery brewed as his own residence. The front of the house is framed by Church originally had only ; more bells were added beer from 1666 to 1989 and is now a haven for small two brick pilasters, and the door case, more typical of the as competition started with St Brides, over who Eating and Drinking designer and media businesses and is also home to two of period than next door, has brackets carved had the finest peal of bells. When the church Give your taste buds a treat in the many ’s trendiest nightspots – 93 Feet East and The Vibe with ears of wheat and scallop shells. The scallop shells commissioned its tenth bell the pub became known as the restaurants, bars and . To find out more Bar. Spitalfields was popular with brewers, as there is a refer to the pilgrim badge of St James and are the 18th Ten Bells. The church now has twelve bells. look for the ‘Waterside restaurants, bars large artesian well under . Century equivalent of ‘welcome’ on the doormat. Textile and pubs guide’ or visit merchants specialising in denim and stretch fabrics Spitalfields Market (17) was originally a mixed market www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/data/discover/ Stop at the corner of Brick Lane and Fournier Street. The currently occupy the building. with livestock, and vegetables, which moved in 1992 to data/eating-drinking/data/waterside.cfm London Jammie Majid (11), the local mosque, currently Temple Mills in the Lea Valley. This building is now a crafts occupies this building. The building has always been a Christ Church (15) and organic food market which is also home to a fantastic Brick Lane Restaurants place of worship and has catered for the changing spiritual is situated at the top of food court, selling everything from Tandoori to Thai. The www.bricklanerestaurants.com needs of the local community since its completion in 1743. Fournier Street on market is busiest on Sundays when it competes with Brick The exterior of the building remains as it was, and is quite Commercial Street and Lane, Columbia Road and Petticoat Lane markets. Make the Shopping different from Christ Church at the other end of Fournier was designed by most of your visit here Tower Hamlets is a great place to shop. Street. Fournier Street (12) survives as one of the finest , today by taking in any one For a definitive guide to the more unusual complete early 18th century streets in London. an assistant of Sir of our fantastic markets. and unique shops in the area, pick up a copy Christopher Wren. To find out how to join in of the Quirky Shopping Guide or visit Walk down Fournier Street to number 2, the Minster’s It is one of the finest on the bustle and banter www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/data/discover/ House (13), built by Nicholas Hawksmoor, in the same Baroque churches see overleaf. downloads/quirky-shopping-guide.pdf style as Christ Church beside it. A very modern house for in Europe. It closed its day it was built in accordance with building regulations in 1957 for 30 years At 42 Brushfield Street (18) the boundary mark of the Markets to prevent the spread of fire and has its windows set back 9 until an extensive old artillery ground may be seen. While the boundary of Some of the best street markets in London are inches from the façade. It has always been the Minster’s restoration the and Tower Hamlets may be seen a few based in the east, find out where they are by House and has never had any other use, a rarity for programme metres further on. At the end of Brushfield Street turn left visiting www.eastlondonmarkets.com Spitalfields and its propensity for change. began. The for . church is now open on Getting here Tuesday from ‘A walk in Spitalfields’ is one of a series of 11am-4pm walks produced by Tower Hamlets. All walks and on start at a /mainline Sunday station and/or Docklands Light Railway for (DLR) station. church services. With thanks to Gareth Harris for devising this

walk in Spitalfields. Hamlets 020 7364 4274 Design by CTR Tower East End Markets Walk 5 Spitalfields Spitalfields is a haven for traditional East End markets. Make the most of your walk today and join in on the Starting and Liverpool Street Station bustle and banter of street trading East End-style. You never Finishing point know, you might pick up a bargain! Don’t forget, it’s not Estimate time 1 hour just shopping, it’s entertainment. 1 Great Eastern Hotel 9 Brick Lane Columbia Road 2 the boundary 10 Truman’s brewery complex Flower Market 3 Sandy’s Row 11 The London Jammie Majid Traditional East End Markets, outrageous nightlife, Turn right into Sandy’s Row (3). You are now entering a Take your first right into Tenter Ground (6), named after 4 Dutch Synagogue 12 Fournier Street myriad of streets, which still follow the original street plan the tenter frames placed here to dry and stretch woven Follow the trail and immerse the capital of Europe and designer stores to 5 56 and 58 Artillery 13 Minster’s House devised after the Great Fire of London 1666. Spitalfields cloth – hence ‘being on tenter hooks’. Weavers could yourself in a colourful world of die for! Spitalfields attracts those who like to look Passage 14 4 Fournier Street can claim to be one of the first planned suburbs of London double the length of their cloth and their profits by using plants and pots, fresh flowers beyond the obvious and stray a little off the 6 Tenter Ground 15 Christ Church after the monarch asked Sir Christopher Wren to value his the tenter. Turn left onto Brune Street, on the left is the and coffee all at bargain prices. beaten track. We invite you to put on your 7 Soup kitchen 16 Ten Bells pub property holdings in the area and granted a charter for a soup kitchen (7) for the Jewish poor, one of the last Open: 8am to 2pm on Sundays only walking boots and explore the vibrant and historic 8 Abraham Davis’s stylish 17 Spitalfields Market market at Spitalfields. purpose built soup kitchens in Spitalfields. At the top of surroundings of Spitalfields. Moorish Market 18 42 Brushfield Street Brune Street turn left into Toynbee Street and at the traffic As you walk down Sandy’s Row, on your left, you will lights cross over Commercial Street to Fashion Street. Probably the most famous and oldest of Start your walk at the exit of 24 hour Columbia notice the synagogue, sometimes known as the Dutch all London’s street markets. Petticoat Lane Beigel Shop Road Flower Liverpool Street Station and marvel at the Synagogue (4) due to the large numbers of Dutch Jews Fashion Street is dominated by Abraham Davis’s stylish still attracts visitors from all over the Markets Market elegant brickwork of the Great Eastern who settled here in the 19th century. Moorish Market (8), built in 1905, it was intended to world. You’ll find bargains of every kind. Hotel (1), on your right, which, for many lure in local street traders. However, he soon discovered Open: 9am to 2pm Monday to Friday and years was the only hotel in the City of Take first left into Artillery Passage built just large enough that the costermonger doesn’t mind the rain and Sundays, when it spreads, becoming bigger London and is now owned by Terance for horse and cart. Number 9a is typical of the type of it closed in 1909. At Brick Lane turn left. and busier. Conran. house built after the Great Fire of London. Further down on the right you will find numbers 56 and 58 Artillery Brick Lane (9) is so named because it was used by carts Brick Lane Market Turn left and walk north up Bishopsgate to A mad mixture of treasures and fascinating finds. Expect to Passage (5). These are fine examples of how much bringing bricks from the brickworks, to rebuild the City the traffic lights at the junction with find everything from furniture to fruits, kitchenware to grander the area had become and indeed more popular. after the Great Fire of London. Brick Lane was occupied by Street, cross the road, passing kitsch and odd boots to bangles. Number 56 is a grade I listed building built by successful the Jewish in the late 19th ’s pub and take the second right Open: From very early morning to 2pm on Sundays only. silk merchants. The building directly opposite has a door century. Now Bangladeshi onto Artillery Lane. A little way down with ‘MEN’ inscribed above. In 1860 this was a night voices fill Brick Lane which 10 10 Artillery Lane you will see the bollards that shelter run by the Sisters of Mercy for 100 women and 20 has been renamed Banglatown. mark the boundary (2) between the City Where else in London can you find Dennis men of ‘good character’! Turn right at the end of Artillery There is no reason ever to go Sever's 18th of London and Tower Hamlets. market stalls, outlets, restaurants Century Lane into Bell Lane and left into Whites Row. hungry on Brick Lane with House Spitalfields Market an array of fantastic and cafes, specialist events and shows, 16 12 11 17 under one roof whilst squeezing in a eateries to tempt the 15 14 13 palate. We are now bit of celebrity spotting? 18 Open: 10am to 4pm Monday to Friday 8 half way through our 2 9 walk and those and 9am to 5pm Sunday 4 3 seeking liquid 5 6 Other must dos 7 refreshment Visit a gallery - Art Gallery 020 7522 7878 may find it at

Step back in time and visit Dennis Sever’s 18th 1 Petticoat the Pride of Century House 020 7247 4013 Lane Spitalfields on Learn about the Elephant Man at the Royal London Heneage Street Toynbee Hospital Archives 020 7377 7608 Hall Whitechapel Art Gallery