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Description: | This photograph shows ?Old Spitalfields Market,? which lies in the East End just outside the boundary of the City. The covered market was built in 1887 to house a wholesale fruit and vegetable market which had been operating on the site since the 17th Century. This photograph was taken in the 1980s, not long before the contentious decision to move the market to Leyton and partially re-develop the Spitalfields site. The church seen in this picture is the Grade I listed Christ Church, Spitalfields, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor in the early 18th Century. Successive waves of non-Anglican immigrants meant that the church was under-used, causing it to fall into disrepair until its restoration in the 1980s and 1990s. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | Bishopsgate Institute | Subjects: | Environment Cityscape | Temporal: | c1988 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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