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!
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Main steps down into Liverpool Street station.
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Busy street scene outside Liverpool Street.
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Deserted car park.
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Aldgate tube station. All the buildings surrounding the station have been pulled down, so the building stands in curious isolation.
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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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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.
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Verde & Company, old fashioned cafe at 40 Brushfield Street, E1.
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Small, winding lanes around the east of Liverpool Street.
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Hawkmoor's immense church at Spitalfields.
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Walking towards Liverpool Street towards Aldgate station. Note the curved Swiss Re building on the horizon.
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