Shoreditch is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Hackney alongside neighbouring parts of Tower Hamlets, which are also perceived as part of the area due to historic ecc
Looking south on Curtain Road, Shoreditch
Memorial to Elizabethan actors buried in Shoreditch church
1867 poster from the National Standard Theatre
The East End of London, often referred to within the London area simply as the East End, is the historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London and north
Shoreditch
…due to historic ecclesiastical links. Shoreditch lies just north-east of the border with the City of London and is considered to be a part of London's East End. In the 16th century, Shoreditch was an important centre of the Elizabethan theatre, and it has been an important entertainment centre since that time…
Dorset Street, Spitalfields, photographed in 1902 for Jack London's book The People of the Abyss
The River Lea at Stratford, with the Olympic Stadium under construction in June 2011
Aldgate Pump: the symbolic start of the East End
The Tower of London was the administrative and geographic cornerstone of the Tower Division