Walking Tour around Spitalfields in the East End of London
Walking Tour around Spitalfields in the East End of London
Highlights
Join us on a walking tour of sightseeing and storytelling, devised by London's leading blogger and guided by a member of the local community in Spitalfields.
Ramble through two thousand years of culture in the heart of London and encounter some of the people and places that make this ancient neighbourhood distinctive.
Discover Spitalfields’ rich and diverse history of resourcefulness driven by successive waves of migration from across the world - Huguenots, Jews, Irish and Bengalis among many others - telling the story of how modern Britain was created.
Itinerary
Christ Church Spitalfields(Pass by)
Admission Ticket FreeNicholas Hawksmoor's masterpiece of English BaroqueSoup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor(Pass by)
Admission Ticket FreeWe meet people whose lives were bound up with with this institution to minster to the needs of Jewish immigrants who came from East Europe, the area now known as the UkraineOld Spitalfields Market(Pass by)
Admission Ticket FreeWe learn the story of this ancient marketCharnel House(Pass by)
Admission Ticket FreeWe reveal the purpose of this astonishing medieval survivalSpital Square(Pass by)
Admission Ticket FreeWe visit the site of the Priory of St Mary SpitalThe Old Truman Brewery(Pass by)
Admission Ticket FreeWe tell the story of the brewery through the lives of two women who worked thereBrick Lane Market(Pass by)
Admission Ticket FreeWe tell the story of this famous thoroughfare and the ongoing controversy over its futureBrick Lane Jamme Masjid(Pass by)
Admission Ticket FreeWe reveal the history of this building which is emblematic of the history of Spitalfields - a Huguenot Chapel that became a Synagogue that became a MosqueFournier Street(Pass by)
Admission Ticket FreeWe tell the story behind these fine eighteenth century housesPuma Court(Pass by)
Admission Ticket FreeWe visit the herb garden of the 17th century herbalist, Nicholas CulpeperTownhouse
30 minsAdmission Ticket IncludedWe put our feet up in a 18th century drawing room, overlooking Christ Church Spitalfields, at the end of our tour and enjoy tea and cakes baked to a recipe of 1720
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