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Spitalfields Market, extended to the west in 1928 by the Market Annexe. The Annexe was by the same architect as the adjacent 1929 London Fruit Exchange, Sydney Perks. He was the Architect to the City. The City Corporation had acquired this ancient market in Tower Hamlets in 1920 and expanded it with the Annexe and the Exchange. In clearing the site for the building of the Annexe, the old (17th C) "The Gun" Public House, a market pub, was also demolished. It was relocated to the north-west corner of the block where the Exchange was built. The wholesale fruit trade was moved out by the Corporation in 1991 and the 1928 Spitalfields Market Annexe was demolished in 2003. The front Victorian Market building, dating from around 1893 and known as 'Old Spitalfields Market', remains standing on the eastern edge, facing Commercial Street, as does the 1929 London Fruit (and later Wool) Exchange. A Flower Market, built in 1935 was also later demolished, leaving just two market buildings today at what was once the largest fruit, vegetable and flower market in the world, Spitalfields Market: the London Fruit Exchange and 'Old Spitalfields Market'. Now, however, there is a plan to demolish the London Fruit (and later Wool) Exchange - but the organisation 'SAVE Britain's Heritage' have applied for listing for this second-to-last surviving Spitalfields Market building. The decision now lies with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. '