Walking Tour around Spitalfields in the East End of London
About This Experience
Ramble through two thousand years of culture in the heart of London and encounter some of the people and places that make this ancient neighbourhood distinctive.
Discover Spitalfields’ rich and diverse history of resourcefulness driven by successive waves of migration from across the world - Huguenots, Jews, Irish and Bengalis among many others - telling the story of how modern Britain was created.
Tour Itinerary
Nicholas Hawksmoor's masterpiece of English Baroque
We meet people whose lives were bound up with with this institution to minster to the needs of Jewish immigrants who came from East Europe, the area now known as the Ukraine
We learn the story of this ancient market
We reveal the purpose of this astonishing medieval survival
We visit the site of the Priory of St Mary Spital
We tell the story of the brewery through the lives of two women who worked there
We tell the story of this famous thoroughfare and the ongoing controversy over its future
We reveal the history of this building which is emblematic of the history of Spitalfields - a Huguenot Chapel that became a Synagogue that became a Mosque
We tell the story behind these fine eighteenth century houses
We visit the herb garden of the 17th century herbalist, Nicholas Culpeper
30 min
We put our feet up in a 18th century drawing room, overlooking Christ Church Spitalfields, at the end of our tour and enjoy tea and cakes baked to a recipe of 1720
What's Included
Included
- Tea and coffee
Meeting Point & Logistics
Start Point
Our tours begin and conclude outside the entrance to Christ Church, Spitalfields in Commercial Street. The meeting point is a 10 minute walk from Liverpool St Station. Please be early or on time as we cannot wait for latecomers.
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Important Information
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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