Building East London: Silk-weavers' Tenement Housing in Georgian Spitalfields

This talk examines the remaining fragments of the forgotten tenement buildings of Georgian Spitalfields

Building East London, 4 March – 9 March 2010
Curated in collaboration with Dan Cruickshank

This series explores the architectural development of East London and is part of the East festival's programme looking at architecture.

Georgian Spitalfields has long been a popular destination for film crews, but there is more to the history of these streets than what we see today. Alongside the silk-merchants’ houses that currently line the streets, there were tenements and cottages for the weavers of Spitalfields’ thriving and illustrious silk industry. However, very little of these much humbler dwellings now survive. In this talk, Peter Guillery reconstructs the character of this other Georgian Spitalfields, examining the remaining fragments of these forgotten buildings alongside archival evidence.

Peter Guillery is a historian for the Survey of London with particular expertise in this and other aspects of Georgian architectural history. He is the author of The Small House in Eighteenth-Century London.

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