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Old Spitalfields market - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (321 words) |
 | Charles' Spitalfield's Market was founded to feed the burgeoning population of this suburb of London, that had previously been open fields. |
| The original wholesale fruit and vegetable market moved to New Spitalfields Market in 1991. |
| The Gun (a Public house, situated to the south of the market buildings) recalls Tudor times, when the area was used by the Fraternity of the Artillery to practice with cross-bow, and later guns and artillery pieces. |
| Spitalfields: Information from Answers.com (875 words) |
| Spitalfields is an area in Tower Hamlets, in the East End of London, near to Liverpool Street station and Brick Lane. |
| Spitalfields was the location of one of Roman London's large extra-mural cemeteries, situated to the east of the Bishopsgate thoroughfare, which roughly follows the line of Ermine Street: the main highway to the north from Londinium. |
| Spitalfields' historic association with the silk industry was established by French Protestant (Huguenot) refugees who settled in this area after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685). |
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