In time, the Jews, like the Huguenots, left Spitalfields for less cramped parts of London.
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Instead, home is a Georgian townhouse in the heart of Spitalfields that she has owned for 10 years.
The Spitalfields Great Synagogue was damaged, then done up, but by the 1970s it had fallen into disrepair.
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Tower Hamlets, the borough that now contains Spitalfields, plays host to the largest community of Bangladeshis outside their native country.
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It is currently leading a consortium to develop the vast Bishopsgate goods yard, mostly owned by the rail industry, just north of Spitalfields.
The neighborhood is Spitalfields market, across the road from Christ Church on Fournier Street, the brooding Hawksmoor church where Alexander McQueen once showed us clothes rattling with skeletal bones.
The building became known as the Spitalfields Great Synagogue.
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To date, his highest profile work has been a collaboration with handbag designer Anya Hindmarch, and spray painting the entire alphabet on the shop shutters of a street in Spitalfields in his signature ice-cream palette.
The Spitalfields Life blog, which has campaigned against the pub's demolition, posted: "Yesterday, I asked "How can it be that a museum which exists to protect our heritage wants to use public funds to destroy an historic building?
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Another Hawksmoor design, for Christ Church, Spitalfields, may be said to rank higher for the bestial power of its facade and macabre associations. (It was built over a burial pit for plague victims.) But the drama of exterior and interior spaces at St.
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The first Pins will open on May 29th, with the Pin 5 (a 5-by-5 meter indoor location) making temporary appearances at Spitalfields Market, Westfield and White City, while the 7-by-7 outdoor version (Pin 7) will pop up in the Olympic Park along with Hyde Park at a later date this year.
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