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The gravestone of English poet William Blake in Bunhill Fields Burial Ground Credit: https://careergappers.com/ TUM image id: 1622643378 Licence:	Geffrye Museum, London (2012) Credit: Chang Yisheng TUM image id: 1557162652 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Colville Estate, Shoreditch (2019) The Colville Estate is situated between the Regents Canal to the North and Shoreditch Park to the South. It was designed in the early 1950s by Shoreditch Metropolitan Borough Council and since 2009 has undergone ’regeneration’. Credit: Municipal Dreams TUM image id: 1636043071 Licence:	Mass grave for plague victims, Holywell Mount (1665) Holywell Mount is the source of the River Walbrook. Today it lies underneath Luke Street in Shoreditch but, then in open land, was used as a plague pit in 1665. TUM image id: 1627419399 Licence:	The Gibraltar Tavern in Gibraltar Walk, Bethnal Green. This pub was present before 1750. The post-war Avebury Estate was extended in 1963. The pub disappeared under the site for the block called Cadogan House. Credit: (Sourced by) Charlie Goodwin TUM image id: 1622121392 Licence:
Established in 1745 as The Old Jerusalem, a drinking house took the name of Dirty Dick’s in 1814 and adopted his story along with it. The original of Dirty Dick was Nathaniel Bentley, a successful merchant with a hardware shop and warehouse in Leadenhall Street in the mid-eighteenth century. After his bride-to-be died on their wedding day - so the legend goes - he never cleaned up again, never washed or changed his clothes. Bentley died in 1809, and the Bishopsgate Distillers appropriated this story of the notorious dirty hardware merchant, adorning their bar with dead cats and cobwebs to perpetuate the legend. Credit: Spitalfields Life TUM image id: 1641301488 Licence:	The northern edge of Tudor London (1520) Moorgate was an old gate in London’s city wall, situated to the west of where the River Walbrook - a long lost river of London - crossed into the city. The Walbrook ran between the two main hills of the city: Ludgate Hill to the west and Cornhill to the east. It rose in the Shoreditch area and flowed into the Thames. By Tudor times, the Walbrook had been culverted within the city but still ran in open country outside the wall. After the river crossed London Wall and flowed into the City, it was bricked over since it had long since turned into a sewer there. Outside the London Wall, the open Walbrook would regularly flood the low-lying area to the north making building difficult. William Fitzstephen described the "great fen which washed against the northern wall of the City". So whereas London slowly spread to the west and the east, the marshy conditions of Moorfields hindered urbanisation to the north. The marsh covered much of the Manor of Finsbury - the name of the district immediately to the north of the city of London whose placename "Finsbury" derives from the word "fen". London’s Wall seems to have acted as a dam, restricting the flow of the river and adding to the area of marshland. As the Walbrook north of the wall was culverted in time, this slowly opened up the hitherto marshy land for building. None of Moorfields remains now - lending its name to the eye hospital and little else. Credit: Historic Towns Trust/Col. Henry Johns TUM image id: 1715180412 Licence:	The Primrose pub on the corner of Norton Folgate/Bishopsgate and Primrose Street (1912) The Primrose, which had existed since at least since 1839, was demolished in 1987 Credit: CA Mathew/Bishopsgate Institute TUM image id: 1641566818 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Artillery Lane as viewed from Bishopsgate (1912) Credit: CA Mathew/Bishopsgate Institute TUM image id: 1641571742 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Ten Bells pub, Spitalfields (2012) The Jamie Oliver series Jamie’s Great Britain featured his great-great-grandfather was a landlord of the pub during the 1880s. Oliver was shown visiting the Ten Bells to discuss his East London roots, and to see how Londoners lived, drank and ate at the end of the 19th century. Credit: Wiki Commons/Wordspotandsmith TUM image id: 1641510553 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Old Spitalfields Market (2017) This is a covered market which has been on the site for over 350 years. In 2005, a regeneration programme resulted in the new public spaces: Bishops Square and Crispin Place, which are now part of the modern Spitalfields Market. A range of public markets runs daily, with independent local stores and restaurants - as well as new office developments. Credit: Pete Gloria TUM image id: 1641485607 Licence:	One of the bedrooms of Dennis Severs’ House in Folgate Street, Spitalfields. Each room of Dennis Severs’ House is a preserve ’experience’ of 18th-century Huguenot life. Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1641983736 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Shepherd’s Place archway (built c. 1810), and Tenter Street (c. 1820) in 1909 TUM image id: 1492897455 Licence:	Looking down Artillery Lane towards Artillery Passage in Spitalfields (1912) Credit: CA Mathew/Bishopsgate Institute TUM image id: 1641420067 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Bloom Court, Blossom Street (1956) TUM image id: 1574858373 Licence: CC BY 2.0