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Modern Osborn Street is a renaming of what was once the southernmost stretch of Brick Lane (see Rocque map of 1746 for this naming, altered by the time of the 1787 map); Heneage Street reflects the marriage of George Osborn, 4th Baronet, to Lady Heneage Finch (his 2nd wife) in April 1772; [ 23 ]
It has had various names in its history, such as Hare Street, and today forms part of Brick Lane Market on Sundays. The Cheshire Street part of the market is home to various Bric A Brac stalls; prior to the area become popular with artists, the market was a source of basic items (clothes, toys etc.) for working people from the East End.
Alie Street, Osborn Street, Brick Lane 1-mile (1.6 km) B135 A1209 Bethnal Green Road A107 Cambridge Heath Road Sclater Street, Cheshire Street, Dunbridge Street, Three Colts Lane 0.8 miles (1.3 km) B137 A1010 Ponders End, London A1055 near Angel Road railway station: Montagu Road, Nightingale Road 1.8 miles (2.9 km) B138 B151 Wood Green, London
The name Spitalfields appears in the form Spittellond in 1399; as The spitel Fyeld on the "Woodcut" map of London of c.1561; and as Spyttlefeildes, also in 1561. [3] The land belonged to St Mary Spital, a priory or hospital (a lodging for travellers run by a religious order) erected on the east side of the Bishopsgate thoroughfare in 1197, from which its name is thought to derive ("spital ...
A recent addition to the building is the 29-metre-high, 1.2-metre-wide 'minaret-like structure' erected on the corner of Fournier street and Brick lane in December 2009. This sculpture forms the centrepiece of the Brick Lane Cultural Trail project [ 11 ] The lower part of the tower is formed by a number of mounted stainless steel drums covered ...
People in Brick Lane Market. Brick Lane Market is the collective name for a number of London markets centred on Brick Lane, in Tower Hamlets in east London. The original market was located at the northern end of Brick Lane and in the heart of what is now east London's Bangladeshi community but now commonly refers to the various markets that are housed along the famous London street.
Great Marlborough Street (listed as Marlborough Street) £180 £90 £2,480,000 W1: There is no actual Marlborough Street in this part of London; the square on the board was misnamed after the Marlborough Street Magistrates Court. [26] Vine Street: £200 £100 £1,700,000 W1: The shortest street on the board; it is 70 feet (21 m) long.
The Brick Lane, Spitalfields building, first established in 1743 as a Protestant chapel ("La Neuve Eglise") by London's French Huguenot community [6] and later a Methodist chapel, [7] was used by the congregation as a synagogue from 1898 unto; 1970; where it moved to Golders Green, and the new synagogue was consecrated in 1983. [4]