New Spitalfields Market has the highest number of wholesale traders of any horticultural market in the UK. The continual specialisation by its tenants in exotic fruit and vegetables ensures that it ...

At approximately 7:30 am on Tuesday, 20 November 1888, she escorted a client back to her usual dismal place of abode, a cheap and nasty common lodging house at 19 George Street, Spitalfields, where ...

In recent years, the Cat Lady of Spitalfields has become a legendary figure in East End lore, acquiring an entire mythology of stories as time goes by. In my imagination, she is a mysterious feline ...

Spitalfields is one of the City's younger markets, starting life as a 13th century market in a field next to St Mary Spittel, on the edge of the Square Mile. In 1682, King Charles II granted John ...

The body of Annie Chapman was discovered a week later on 8 September, 1888 near the steps to the doorway of the back yard of 29 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields. Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes ...

A mugshot of George Edalji who was the accused in a celebrated case centred on the maiming of animals in Great Wyrley. It is a historical crime conundrum which has hung over a village near Cannock ...

Conceived in homage to Geoffrey Fletcher and “The London Nobody Knows,” artist Joanna Moore introduces you to lesser-known corners of Spitalfields. (You can click on these pictures to enlarge them if ...

Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank first moved to East London’s Spitalfields in 1977, into 15, Elder Street, the original occupant of which was almost certainly one of the Huguenot weavers whose ...