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A night walk from Liverpool Street to Spitalfields via Aldgate, February 2007
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A night walk
Liverpool Street to Spitalfields via Aldgate
(Photos/words © urban75, 7th February, 2007)

We were invited out for a curry in Commercial Road and then some drinks at the Songbird Club - which was busted when we were there!

A night walk from Liverpool Street to Spitalfields via Aldgate, February 2007
Main steps down into Liverpool Street station.

A night walk from Liverpool Street to Spitalfields via Aldgate, February 2007
Busy street scene outside Liverpool Street.

A night walk from Liverpool Street to Spitalfields via Aldgate, February 2007
Deserted car park.

A night walk from Liverpool Street to Spitalfields via Aldgate, February 2007
Aldgate tube station. All the buildings surrounding the station have been pulled down, so the building stands in curious isolation.

A night walk from Liverpool Street to Spitalfields via Aldgate, February 2007
Tubby Isaacs, 'quality jellied eels and shellfish.' This stall has been here for years on end - in fact I remember taking a picture of it when I first came to London in the late 1970s.

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A night walk from Liverpool Street to Spitalfields via Aldgate, February 2007
Ironmongers and braziers used to hang a frying pan outside their premises to advertise their business, and with several such businesses in this alley, it became known as Frying Pan Alley. Sadly, it's just a boring modern development now.

Verde and Company, A night walk from Liverpool Street to Spitalfields via Aldgate, February 2007
Verde & Company, old fashioned cafe at 40 Brushfield Street, E1.

A night walk from Liverpool Street to Spitalfields via Aldgate, February 2007
Small, winding lanes around the east of Liverpool Street.

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A night walk from Liverpool Street to Spitalfields via Aldgate, February 2007
Hawkmoor's immense church at Spitalfields.

A night walk from Liverpool Street to Spitalfields via Aldgate, February 2007
Walking towards Liverpool Street towards Aldgate station. Note the curved Swiss Re building on the horizon.



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