It was the first purpose-built pedestrian shopping area in the UK. It features a prominent clock tower, shops, small retail outlets, cafes and market stalls. East End of London favourites such as pie and mash are available with Chinese and Indian food outlets.
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Chrisp Street Market area and planned improvements (http://www.chrispstreet.org.uk/)
ChrispStreetmarket in Poplar, east London, has been bustling with traders selling everything from fruit and veg to live eels and electrical goods for more than 100 years.
The present market, designed in 1951 as part of the Festival of Britain, was one of the first pedestrian shopping centres in Britain and hailed as a landmark in urban design.
The ChrispStreet New Traders course is a project that is giving unemployed local people a chance to help regenerate their home turf.
Adjaye's first new library in Poplar's ChrispStreetMarket is about to open, a sophisticated piece of architecture that does exactly what the council asks, in an uncondescending and subtle way.
The original market is the product of the well-meaning efforts of welfare state planners in the 1960s, attempting to inject life into the East End's grim streets.
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