Old Spitalfields Market

Old Spitalfields Market owes its existence to the aftermath of a catastrophe. Following the Great Fire of London in sixteen sixty-six, traders were pushed out of the cramped, ruined city gates and onto these then-rural fields to sell produce to the growing population. King Charles the First had initially licensed the site for selling flesh, fowl, and roots back in sixteen thirty-eight, but the move to this location after the fire cemented the market as a essential hub for feeding the capital.