From                                                         the BEVIS MARKS SYNAGOGUE to OLD SPITALFIELDS MARKET         and on to                                      London’s “First Theatreland”

The “Can of Ham”

Cutler St.

Former East India Company Cutler St. Warehouses, now DEVONSHIRE SQ.

https://www.dsq.london/about-a-new-chapter-of-dsq/ 

https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/london-stories/inside-cutler-street-warehouses/ 

https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/london-stories/inside-cutler-street-warehouses/ 

King Edgar Statue

https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/king-edgar

Devonshire Sq., the real square

GEORGIAN HOUSES

COOPERS’ HALL

Site of FISHER’S FOLLY, later on DEVONSHIRE HOUSE and GARDENS (did the “real” W.S. wrote its works here?)

https://www.onlondon.co.uk/vic-keegan-bishopsgate-fishers-folly-and-the-real-william-shakespeares/ 

https://lookup.london/devonshire-square-ec2m-fishers-folly/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_Folly 

New Street

Cock Hill

Catherine Wheel Alley

Middlesex St.

Welcome to Spitalfields, and to the East End!

harps://exploringeastlondon.co.uk/eel/Spitalfields/Spitalfields.htm  

Site of the JEWISH BOARD OF GUARDIANS (The Board of Guardians and Trustees for the Relief of the Jewish Poor)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Board_of_Guardians_(United_Kingdom) 

https://www.thejewsoflondon.com/soup-and-coal 

Widegate

https://www.theundergroundmap.com/article.html?id=33087 

SANDYS ROW SYNAGOGUE

Artillery Passage

https://www.londonremembers.com/subjects/artillery-gardens-in-spitalfields?memorial_id=8991

Former LEVY BAKERS

https://www.thejewsoflondon.com/from-margarine-to-the-mediterranean

Arrow Mark

https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2020/11/a-cluster-of-ghost-signs-intrigue-in-spitalfields-artillery-grounds/ 

https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMFAXT_Old_Atillery_Ground_Mark_Artillery_Passage_London_UK 

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol27/pp24-38 

18th c. SHOP-FRONTS

Former PROVIDENCE ROW SHELTER

https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/10/03/farewell-to-the-crispin-st-night-shelter/ 

https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/07/15/moyra-peralta-in-spitalfields/providence-row-refuge-womens-entrance/ 

Dorset St.: Jack the Ripper murder

Nearby

Tenter Ground (street)

https://lookup.london/history-of-tenter-ground-spitalfields/ 

Former TRACEY EMIN’s artist studio

https://www.timeout.com/london/news/tracey-emins-old-london-studio-is-getting-redeveloped-into-homes-and-commercial-units-032526 

Brune St.

Spitalfields in East London gets its name and origins from the Hospital and Priory of St Mary, founded in 1197 by Walter Brune, a wealthy London citizen and former sheriff, and his wife, Roesia Brune 

Former JEWISH SOUP KITCHEN

https://jewisheastendmemorymap.org/?feature_type=polygon&id=1 

OLD SPITALFIELDS MARKET

Remains of the CHARNEL HOUSE 

https://flickeringlamps.com/2020/01/26/a-medieval-charnel-house-below-the-streets-of-spitalfields/

Spital Yard

SUSANNA ANNESLEY, mother of JOHN WESLEY, birthplace

Spital Square 

Former CENTRAL FOUNDATION GIRLS SCHOOL 

Folgate Street

DENNIS SEVERS’ HOUSE

Elder St