Old Spitalfields Market

In 2005, a regeneration programme resulted in the new public spaces: Bishops Square and Crispin Place, which are now part of the modern Spitalfields Market.

A range of public markets runs daily, with independent local stores and restaurants - as well as new office developments.

There has been a market on the site since 1638 when King Charles I gave a licence for flesh, fowl and roots to be sold on Spittle Fields, which was then a rural area on the eastern outskirts of London.

[6] The Cinema Museum in London holds extensive film of the market and its refrigeration systems in use between 1928 and 1930.

[8] In the late 20th century, there was a dispute between the owners, the City of London Corporation and local residents about the redevelopment of the 1926 market extension at the western end.