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5 unusual facts about Spitalfields


Ben Harms

In 2003, Gonzalez & Harms carried out work for the restoration of Christ Church, Spitalfields, involving thirty-eight existing carved oak brackets with repair work, and eleven brackets to be newly made; and above the brackets corniced mouldings which they also carved.

Bizarre silk

The development of bizarre designs among the English silk weavers of Spitalfields can be dated quite closely based on surviving textiles and documents.

Drumming Song

A music video for the song was shot in the interior of Christ Church, Spitalfields, featuring Florence Welch and dancers.

Oxtail soup

It is believed by some that oxtail soup was invented in Spitalfields in London in the seventeenth century by French Huguenot and Flemish immigrants, from the tails of animals.

Raven Row

Raven Row is a free art exhibition centre in Spitalfields.


Brick Lane Mosque

During the 1970s, the area of Spitalfields and Brick Lane was populated mainly by Bangladeshis who had come to Britain from the Sylhet region looking for better work.

Charles Buxton

Buxton was born in Cobham, Surrey, the third son of Sir Thomas Buxton, 1st Baronet, a notable brewer, MP and social reformer, and followed in his father's footsteps, becoming a partner in the brewery of Truman, Hanbury, Buxton, & Co in Brick Lane, Spitalfields, London, and then an MP.

Kenneth Hesketh

Recent performances have been given by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (Hessicher Rundfunk), the Sudwest Rundfunk (Baden-Baden), the London Sinfonietta, Psappha, the ASKO ensemble, the Continuum Ensemble (Spitalfields festival).

Riverside Exchange

Its borders are West Bar, Coulston Street, Bridge Street, Castlegate, Exchange Place and the Parkway to its south, the Wicker Viaduct, Johnson Street, Spitalfields and Nursery Street to the North, and Corporation Street to the west.

Spitalfields Junction

Spitalfields Junction is a popular entry on the location check-in site Foursquare.

Spitalfields Market

Old Spitalfields Market, a covered market in Spitalfields, just outside the City of London

Spitalfields Music

2005 - Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Education fom Spitalfields Festival commission of Jonathan Dove's community cantata On Spital Fields.

Spittal, Pembrokeshire

Its name is a corruption of the word Hospital, which is also the root of such names as Spitalfields, London, Spital, Merseyside, Spital-in-the-Street, Lincolnshire, etc: the village possessed a hospitium (place of accommodation for pilgrims) belonging to the Cathedral of St David's.


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