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Explore Spitalfields
The district Spitalfields of City of London in Greater London (England) is located in United Kingdom a little east of London, the country's capital.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 12°C / 54 °F
Morning Temperature | 7°C / 45 °F |
Evening Temperature | 10°C / 50 °F |
Night Temperature | 8°C / 46 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 2% |
Air Humidity | 66% |
Air Pressure | 987 hPa |
Wind Speed | Moderate breeze with 12 km/h (8 mph) from North |
Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 100% of sky |
General Conditions | Light rain |
Saturday, 30th of March 2024
13°C (56 °F)
8°C (47 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, scattered clouds.
Sunday, 31st of March 2024
12°C (54 °F)
9°C (49 °F)
Overcast clouds, moderate breeze.
Monday, 1st of April 2024
9°C (48 °F)
8°C (46 °F)
Moderate rain, gentle breeze, overcast clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
ACE Hotel - London Shoreditch
Fraser Residence Bishopsgate
Andaz London Liverpool Street A Concept by Hyatt
The Curtain
Boundary
citizenM London Shoreditch
Rez Apartments
196 Bishopsgate
Arbor City
Park Lane City Apartments
Videos from this area
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LEE Filters - Seven5 City Shoot with Craig Roberts
Craig Roberts spends a day in London with a highly portable Compact System Camera and the LEE Seven5 Filter System. He demonstrates how easy it is to get creative in a busy city environment.
blowUP media (UK): East London Domination
Since its launch in April 2013, blowUP media's East London Domination Package has been one of the hottest advertising opportunites in London Town. With four premium sites in Shoreditch's hot-spots, ...
Pizza East, Shoreditch, London
Pizzeria with industrial looks, serving rustic pizza, antipasti, weekend brunch and Sunday roast.
Street Art, Shoreditch
Discover incredible street art hidden in Shoreditch. The closer you look, the more you see. For more, visit www.gofindit.net and see the photostream at www.flickr.com/photos/gofindit.
Bosses - Dum Dum Donutterie, Shoreditch
Ever wondered how to make a healthier doughnut? How to run your own doughnut business? What Peter Andre's favourite doughnut is? If so, THIS is the episode of 'Doughnut'...er, 'Bosses' for...
Kings Cross to Liverpool Street, by bicycle.
The line to Cambridge from Kings Cross Station was temporarily closed because a vehicle had hit a bridge near Baldock. So there was only one thing to do.... ride to Liverpool Street Station...
Shoreditch Street Art
A quick look around at street art found between Old Street, Commercial Street, Shoreditch through to Brick Lane and Whitechapel in London. Excuse the slight wobble from a handheld camera in...
German Comedian rocks british audience!
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Commercial Street, London
Commercial Street is a road in Tower Hamlets, east London that runs north to south from Shoreditch High Street to Whitechapel High Street through the East End district of Spitalfields. The road is on the London Inner Ring Road and as such forms part of the boundary of the London congestion charge zone. As the name implies, Commercial Street has historically been dominated by industrial and commercial activity.
Brick Lane
Brick Lane is a street in East London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It runs from Swanfield Street in the northern part of Bethnal Green, crosses Bethnal Green Road, passes through Spitalfields and is linked to Whitechapel High Street to the south by the short stretch of Osborn Street. Today, it is the heart of the city's Bangladeshi-Sylheti community and is known to some as Banglatown. It is famous for its many curry houses.
Bishopsgate railway station
Bishopsgate railway station (also commonly known as Bishopsgate Goods Yard) was a railway station located on the eastern side of Shoreditch High Street in the modern London Borough of Tower Hamlets; the western edge of the East End. It was in use from 1840 to 1964 when it was destroyed by fire. Substantial remains lay derelict until they were demolished in 2004 to make way for the new Shoreditch High Street station.
93 Feet East
93 Feet East is a live music venue on Brick Lane in East London. It is a conversion of part of the Old Truman Brewery, and plays host to new and established acts. It has a courtyard with a BBQ. On the 8th of January 2013 the premises had its licence revoked following a Police drugs raid the previous year.
Annie Chapman
Annie Chapman (September 1841 – 8 September 1888), born Eliza Ann Smith, was a victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper, who killed and mutilated five women in the Whitechapel area of London from late August to early November 1888. The canonical fiveJack the Ripper victims Mary Ann Nichols Annie Chapman Elizabeth Stride Catherine Eddowes Mary Jane Kelly
Old Spitalfields Market
Old Spitalfields Market is a covered market in Spitalfields, just outside the City of London. It is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Petticoat Lane Market
Petticoat Lane Market is a fashion and clothing market located on Wentworth Street and Middlesex Street in the East End of London.
Christ Church, Spitalfields
Christ Church, Spitalfields is an Anglican church built between 1714 and 1729 to a design by Nicholas Hawksmoor. Situated on Commercial Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, on the eastern border and facing the City of London, it was one of the first (and arguably one of the finest) of the so-called "Commissioners' Churches" built for the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches, which had been established by an Act of Parliament in 1711.
Dennis Severs' House
Dennis Severs' House in Folgate Street is a "still-life drama" created by the previous owner as an "historical imagination" of what life would have been like inside for a family of Huguenot silk weavers. It is a Grade II listed Georgian terraced house in Spitalfields, London, England. From 1979 to 1999 it was lived in by Dennis Severs, who gradually recreated the rooms as a time capsule in the style of former centuries. It is now open to the public.
Black Eagle Brewery
The Black Eagle Brewery is the former brewing plant of Truman's Brewery located around Brick Lane in the Spitalfields area, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Truman's subsequently became Truman, Hanbury and Buxton. The former buildings, warehouses and yards were redeveloped by The Zeloof Partnership as the "Old Truman Brewery" and now house over 250 businesses, ranging from cultural venues to art galleries, restaurants, and retail shops.
Hales Gallery
Hales Gallery is an contemporary art gallery located in London's East End, representing a number of British and international artist. In nurturing young talent and steadfastly supporting the post-war legacy of Britain's pioneering black artists, Hales Gallery has marked 20 influential years on the London and International arts scene in 2012.
Old Artillery Ground
The Old Artillery Ground is an area of land in Spitalfields, London formerly designated one of the Liberties of the Tower of London and Crown Land. Originally the outer precinct of the Priory and Hospital of St Mary Spital, it was converted to an Artillery Ground in 1538, under Henry VIII, for the use of 'The Fraternity or Guild of Artillery of Longbows, Crossbows and Handguns', also known as 'The Fraternity of St George'.
The Spitz
The Spitz are an independent record label and music promoter. They started out in 1996 running a club in the East End of London, at 109 Commercial Street on the edge of the Old Spitalfields market. However the venue was forced to close in 2007 in a dispute about rent.
Tower Hamlets Summer University
Tower Hamlets Summer University (THSU) is a British charity in the Tower Hamlets area of London which offers independent learning programs for people from 11 to 25 years of age. It rebranded to the name Futureversity in 2010.
Bishopsgate (Low Level) railway station
Bishopsgate (Low Level) railway station was opened by the Great Eastern Railway (GER) on 4 November 1872 alongside the company's first London terminus, Bishopsgate, which stood on a viaduct. The newer station was on a lower route, leading south-west, which the GER was building to its new Liverpool Street terminus and was on Quaker Street, on the eastern side of Shoreditch High Street now in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets but then in the Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green.
Rich Mix Cultural Foundation
Rich Mix is a cinema and cross-arts centre located in the East End of London, located in Bethnal Green in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Museum of Immigration and Diversity
The Museum of Immigration and Diversity is a British museum at 19 Princelet Street in Spitalfields, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The Grade II listed building in which the museum is located was a house built in 1719 for the Huguenot silk merchant Peter Abraham Ogier. The house went through a number of stages, the building was converted to a synagogue in 1869. The building remained in use until the 1970s, when the congregation had moved out of the area.
Flower and Dean Street
Flower and Dean Street was a road situated at the heart of the Spitalfields rookery in the East End of London. It was one of the most notorious slum areas of the Victorian era and was closely associated with the victims of Jack the Ripper. It was described in 1883 as "perhaps the foulest and most dangerous street in the whole metropolis". The street was built in the 1650s and rebuilt in parts in the eighteenth.
Dorset Street, London
Dorset Street was situated at the heart of the Spitalfields rookery in the East End of London, England. It should not be confused with the road of the same name in Marylebone, in London's West End. By repute it was "the worst street in London" and was the scene of the brutal murder of Mary Jane Kelly by Jack the Ripper on 9 November 1888. The murder was committed at Kelly's lodgings which were situated at No. 13, Miller's Court entered from a passageway between 26 and 27, Dorset Street.
Ten Bells
The Ten Bells is a public house at the corner of Commercial Street and Fournier Street in Spitalfields in the East End of London. It is sometimes cited as being notable for its association with two victims of Jack the Ripper; Annie Chapman and Mary Kelly, but is best known now as a uniquely decorated, lively and trendy East London pub.
Trolley Gallery
Trolley Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Shoreditch, east London, which emerged independently and alongside the already established Trolley Books in 2003. The gallery exhibits the work of new, emerging artists and is often host to first solo shows. The gallery's directors are Hannah Watson and Gigi Giannuzzi. Trolley Gallery took part in the Zoo Art Fair 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.
Brick Lane Mosque
Brick Lane Jamme Masjid formerly known as the London Jamme Masjid (লন্ডন জামে মসজিদ "London Great Mosque"), is located in the area of Spitalfields alongside the street of Brick Lane and Fournier Street in east London, England. The majority of worshippers of the mosque are of Bangladeshi descent; the mosque serves the largest concentration of Bangladeshi Muslims in the country. The building at 59 Brick Lane previously served the religions of a succession of other communities in the area.
Sandys Row Synagogue
Sandy's Row Synagogue is a historic Grade II listed synagogue in the East End of London.
Raven Row
Raven Row is an art gallery in Spitalfields. It was constructed from numbers 56 and 58, Artillery Lane. These properties were built about 1690. The area was formerly used for testing artillery and this portion of the lane was known as Raven Row until 1895. The buildings have previously been used as shops of Huguenot silk weavers and traders. They were converted into a gallery in 2009 by Alex Sainsbury who established a charity to run it.
Bishops Square
Bishops Square is a large commercial property development in the Spitalfields area of London, England. Previously owned by Hammerson, and later jointly by Hammerson and the Oman Investment Fund, it is now owned by JP Morgan. It has been cited as an example of a privately owned public space in London.