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garment and textile industries in the East End

Categories: Commerce, Craft / Design, Industry

The origins of the East End textile industry can be traced to the 14th century when Flemish artisans set up dye works on the River Lea. In the late 17th century the Huguenots arrived in Spitalfields bringing their skills with silk-weaving, lace-making, fan-making, etc. Then the Jewish tailors arrived and enriched the area further.

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garment and textile industries in the East End

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Bowler plaque - Scissors and Buttons - Brick Lane north

We failed to find this plaque in Dec-Jan 2017, but it is identical to that fu...

Bowler plaque - Scissors and Buttons - Brick Lane south

There is meant to be another identical plaque further north in Brick Lane but...

Bowler plaque - Shuttle and Bobbins

The plaque shows a shuttle and two bobbins, representing the local weaving tr...

Whitechapel Threads sculpture

The artists worked with the Rope Makers Guild to produce this image of two sk...

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M. & W. Mack Ltd

Trader at Covent Garden Market at its original site.

Group, Commerce

1 memorial

J. Steer

Worked for the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society. Was on the building committee for the Bostall Estate in 1900.

Person, Commerce, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

London Hop Trade

Hops were introduced to England from the Netherlands. They were grown principally in Kent and brought to London via the River Thames and later by rail to London Bridge. By the mid-nineteenth centur...

Group, Commerce

1 memorial

Tattersalls race horse auctioneers

Founded at Hyde Park Corner by Richard Tattersall (1724–1795) it stayed in the Tattersall family until about WW2. The business had to move from 'the Corner' due to the lease running out and the la...

Group, Commerce, Animals

1 memorial