“There is a choice of green spaces, from tiny Jesus Green to Weavers Fields, Bethnal Green Gardens and Victoria Park.” Huguenot weavers, who settled in the area from the 17th century ...

Bethnal Green already has a splendidly mixed existing housing stock. Old warehouses and workshops have been converted into excellent houses and flats and the prices, though steep, pale in ...

According to author Liz Trenow, whose ancestors started her family’s silk weaving business in the early 1700s, at one time a quarter of all those living in Spitalfields and Bethnal Green spoke ...