EPW036250 ENGLAND. The D-LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin in flight, Shoreditch, 1931. This image has been produced from a damaged negative.

Saint Botolph without Bishopgate

Spitalfields Market

Spitalfields Market Building

Christ Church Spitalfields

Brick Lane

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.

The London Fruit Exchange (1929) of Spitalfields Market. During World War Two, the Exchange's basement became an air raid shelter and was London's largest underground public shelter, taking up to 14,000 people a night. This "township under the ground" became famous throughout the world and was written about in books, in the national and international press and was photographed by Bert Hardy of Picture Post. It was visited by Wendell Willkie, on a fact finding mission for President Roosevelt, also by Mrs Churchill and many others. It became known as 'Mickey's Shelter' after its legendary local organiser, Mickey Davis. In 1963 the wool brokers were moved into the building and it became the London Fruit and Wool Exchange, with the offices and auction rooms being used for the sales of wool and fruit. The City Corporation, who had acquired control of Spitalfields Market in Tower Hamlets in 1920, moved out the wholesale fruit trade in 1991. Spitalfields Market was then redeveloped in 2003, with most of its buildings demolished for offices - leaving just the 1929 Exchange and 'Old Spitalfields Market' (1889). Now the Exchange is proposed to be demolished and Maria Miller, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport is looking at an application from the organisation 'SAVE Britain's Heritage' to list Spitalfields' London Fruit and Wool Exchange and with it 'Mickey's Shelter'.

Brick Lane

Currently the 'All Saints' clothing store , corner Hanbury St and Commercial St, just by Hawksmoor's Christ Church on Fournier St, Spitalfields....which suggests it is London

Shoreditch High Street

Bishopsgate

West Reservoir

East Reservoir

Kingsland Road A10

St. Botolph without, Bishopsgate

Commercial Street

Christ Church, Spitalfields designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor