For Kids & Families
A shorter family cut of the grown-up Spitalfields walk: four different groups of people who weren't welcome anywhere else came here, worked, and moved into buildings that were already standing instead of starting from scratch. This is a story about arriving and reusing what's there - not the other story you might know about this neighbourhood. Seven stops on flat, level streets, well under a kilometre for the core walk: a covered market, a huge church, a street of houses with giant windows built for weaving, a real working place of worship that's been four communities' home across three faiths for nearly 300 years, a house too fragile now for visitors, an old brewery you can walk straight through for free, and a street with an arch and signs in two alphabets. About 1.5 to 2 hours, start to finish. One stop, the mosque, is a real place people use today - we check in from across the street, and there's nothing more to do than take a photo from where you're standing. Everything on this route is free.