George Dodd’s Spitalfields, 1842

George Dodd’s Spitalfields, 1842

George Dodd came to Spitalfields to write this account for Charles Knight’s LONDON published in 1842. Dodds recalls the rural East End that still lingered in the collective memory and described the East End of weavers living in ramshackle timber and plaster dwellings which in his century would be “redeveloped” out of existence by the rising tide of brick terraces, erasing the history that existed before. Spitalfields Market It is not easy to exp…