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' The London Fruit and Wool Exchange, built as the London Fruit Exchange, 1929. This is Spitalfields Market in what was Stepney, now the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The Exchange is a local landmark, with distinctive white stone towers, which were designed by Architect to the City, Sydney Perks, to compliment Hawksmoor's Christ Church, opposite. This photo shows the south elevation of the Exchange which runs the length of Dorset, later Duval Street; 380 feet long, this also contained the Municipal Offices of the Borough of Stepney, and in World War Two, the entrance to the basement which was a public air raid shelter. London's largest under ground public Shelter, known as "Mickey's Shelter", after its famous organiser. '