History of Spitalfields

From http://www.mernick.org.uk/thhol/spital4.html:

The refugees showed that they were determined to help themselves, for, being industrious, thrifty, and self-reliant, they soon settled down to work in a strange land. With a roof over their heads, a warm hearth and a stewpot on the fire, they were content and happy. They knew the art of cooking, that of obtaining the greatest amount of nutriment and at the same time presenting the food in a savoury manner. 

Delicious food descriptions

From Spitalfields: The History of a Nation in a Handful of Streets by Dan Cruickshank

The Huguenots (French Protestants)

From A Brief History of Britain 1660 - 1851 by William Gibson:

"Strange new and smelly foods"

Death toll bells.. Would it be kind of like a news report? "Hmm.. this time it tolled 6 times then 34 times... I hope that isn't Mary."

Weavers attacked in the open street wearers of cotton stuffs - the "Calico Madams" - even tearing the clothes off their backs. 

The journeymen had for some years, under the guise of their benefit societies, combined with the object of compelling the masters to raise wages, and on one occasion several thousand journeymen assembled in Spitalfields, "and in riotous manner broke open the house of one of their masters, destoyed his looms, and cut a great quantity of silk to pieces, after which they placed his effigy in a cart, with a halter about his neck, an executioner on one side, and a coffin on the other; and after drawing it through the streets they hanged it on a gibbet, then burnt it to ashes and afterwards dispersed." [From the "Gentleman's Magazine", November 1763] 

These fabrics, exquisitely designed and executed with technical skill, will bring to mind the thought that Art and Industry are not merely assessable in terms of money, but that there is a different kind of value to be found in the appreciation and enjoyment of beauty and craftsmanship.

1825 

Map of Spitalfields

A tour around Spitalfields in pictures 

http://tweedlandthegentlemansclub.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/spitalfields-doors-and-more.html

The Old Spitalfields Fruit and Vegetable Market before it was closed

http://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/09/05/at-the-old-spitalfields-fruit-vegetable-market/

Adam Tuck manipulates pictures above taken by Mark Jackson and Huw Davies, into photographs which show the passage of time in Old Spitalfields market:

"...to create subtly modulated palimpsests, which permit the viewer to see the past in terms of the present and the present in terms of the past, simultaneously. He uses photography to show us something that is beyond the capability of ordinary human vision, you might call it God’s eye view."

http://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/03/19/a-walk-through-time-in-spitalfields-market-x/