Brick Lane Market Brick Lanes’s origins stem back to the 16th century when it was originally just a path running across a field. Situated in East London it has long been a place a place of immigration and was settled by a Jewish community that in the 1930’s gradually moved to North London. After the...
Borough Market London’s oldest market Borough Market lies south of the River Thames in the London Borough of Southwark. There have been food markets in the area as far back as 1014. The current market buildings are from the Victorian period and are nestled amongst the railway lines coming out of London Bridge station. In...
Portobello Road Portobello Road was known prior to 1740 as Green’s Lane. In 1740 a farm was built in the area and was named Portobello Farm after the the popular victory of Admiral Edward Vernon who in 1739 captured the Spanish town of Puerto Bello (Panama) during the war of Jenkins Ear between the British...
