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1 Liverpool Street Station
Exit from Liverpool Street Station onto Bishopsgate and turn left. Cross Bishopsgate at the pedestrian crossing on your right. Turn left along Bishopsgate and cross Middlesex Street and Artillery Row.
Turn right into Brushfield Street. Carefully cross Brushfield Street and walk along its left-hand pavement.
Spitalfields Market is on your left, a covered market selling a wide range of vintage and new goods. The traders vary depending on the day of the week but you will always find excellent street food. The market originally sold fruit and vegetables. www.spitalfields.co.uk/
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2 Spitfire Gate
After exploring the market, find the Spitfire Mk. Vb W3311 Gate, which leads onto Commercial Street.
It is at the opposite end of the market from Liverpool Street and on the right.
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3 Commercial Street
Exit from the market from the Spitfire Gate and cross Commercial Street at the pedestrian lights ahead of you.
On the corner of Commercial Street and Fournier Street you’ll find a pub called The Ten Bells named when the number of bells, in Christ Church was increased to compete with the peal of St Brides in Fleet Street.
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4 Christ Church
Cross over Fournier Street on your right and walk past the front of Christ Church.
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5 Fashion Street
Continue along Commercial Street and take the next road on the left, Fashion Street. Walk up this street.
The building on your right was originally a covered market called the Moorish Market.
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6 Brick Lane
At the end of Fashion Street turn left into Brick Lane.
Brick Lane is named after the brick works which were used to rebuild the City of London after the Great Fire of London. The masons were instructed to build new houses from brick and stone rather than wood.
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7 London Jamme Masjid Mosque
Walk along Brick Lane to its junction with Fournier Street and stop here.
The London Jamme Masjid Mosque occupies the site on the opposite side of the road.
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8 Fournier Street
Turn left into Fournier Street where many of the houses have been lovingly restored.
Traditionally the silk weaving activities of the original home owners would have occupied the uppermost floors to gain the best light for the looms – hence the development of the glazed lofts in these houses. The ground floor rooms served as elaborate showrooms for the finished products.
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9 Christ Church
You have now come to the side of Christ Church and you’ll have to look very carefully at the worn stonework of the church for the answer to the next question.
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10 Brushfield Street
At the end of Fournier Street, cross over it, then cross Commercial Street at the pedestrian lights. Turn left and immediately right into Brushfield Street.
Opposite you is the site of a Corporation of London “Trading House” or “Exchange”. For over 60 years from 1929 this was full of brokers and distributors attending the auctions at the Exchanges.
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11 Crispin Street
Carefully cross Brushfield Street and turn right walking along the left-hand pavement of Brushfield Street. Stop outside The Gun public house and look across Crispin Street to the buildings on the other side of this road for some questions on former traders from these buildings
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12 Tenter Ground
Turn left to walk down Crispin Street staying on the left-hand pavement. Stop outside a coffee shop called Crispin. Ahead of you is a road called Tenter Ground.
You are now a quarter of the way through the walk.
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