Qualla: Old Spitalfields Market https://qualla.com/old-spitalfields-market en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/old-spitalfields-market-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Old Spitalfields Market https://qualla.com/old-spitalfields-market Old Spitalfields Market: Introduction https://qualla.com/old-spitalfields-market/ Photo credit MRSC at English Wikipedia, Public domain. King Charles I handed out the licence in 1638 — flesh, fowl, and roots to be sold on Spittle Fields, then open countryside on London's eastern fringe. Nearly four centuries later, the market is still there. The players have changed, the goods have changed, and much of the architecture has changed, but the transaction continues on the same rectangular patch of ground.

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/old-spitalfields-market-wp/gcpv-old-spitalfields-market-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Old Spitalfields Market: From Royal Licence to Horner Buildings https://qualla.com/old-spitalfields-market/ Photo credit GrindtXX, CC BY-SA 4.0. The original licence lapsed during the years of the Commonwealth, when such arrangements tended to fall through the cracks of a country at war with itself. Charles II revived it in 1682, responding to the pressure of a rapidly expanding city that needed reliable places to buy foo...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/old-spitalfields-market-wp/gcpv-old-spitalfields-market-from-royal-licence-to-horner-buildings.mp3 0:06 2 full Old Spitalfields Market: A Market Reborn https://qualla.com/old-spitalfields-market/ Photo credit Megalit, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1920, the City of London Corporation bought the market to run it as a wholesale operation. Westward expansion followed in 1926. By 1991, the practical needs of a modern wholesale trade had outgrown the Victorian infrastructure — refrigeration, loading, and parking all demanded...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/old-spitalfields-market-wp/gcpv-old-spitalfields-market-a-market-reborn.mp3 0:06 3 full Old Spitalfields Market: Layers of the Neighbourhood https://qualla.com/old-spitalfields-market/ Photo credit Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0. The market sits at the centre of a neighbourhood whose history is almost entirely a story of successive arrivals. The Huguenots came in the late 17th century, fleeing religious persecution in France, and set up their weaving trade in Spitalfields. The chapels they built later bec...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/old-spitalfields-market-wp/gcpv-old-spitalfields-market-layers-of-the-neighbourhood.mp3 0:06 4 full Old Spitalfields Market: What Remains https://qualla.com/old-spitalfields-market/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 2.0. Today Old Spitalfields Market runs a different kind of trade. Thursday brings a vintage market; some Fridays see a vinyl fair; arts and crafts fill the weekend. Independent stalls mix with permanent restaurants. The market won the National Association of British Market Authoritie...

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