Erection date: 1887
Spitalfields Market
Rebuilt by Robert Horner during the year of Queen Victoria's Jubilee, 1887.
The date is almost lost in the foliage, bottom right.
E1, Commercial Street, Spitalfields Market - Horner Buildings
The 1885-93 buildings bearing the plaque were designed by George Sherrin for the owner Robert Horner. Spitalfields Life has a good appreciation of the building.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Spitalfields Market - Horner - started
1638 King Charles I gave a licence for flesh, fowl and roots to be sold on Sp...
The fiftieth anniversary of the accession of Queen Victoria was celebrated on...
Last private owner of Spitalfields fruit and vegetable market. Came from Ess...
Canning became Foreign Secretary whilst living here. (from modern information plaque in square.)
Cy Grant, 1919 - 2010, activist,writer,musician, pioneering actor and WWII RAF navigator, lived here 1962 - 2010. Nubian Jak Community Tr...
A network of almost secret passageways and a courtyard link Suffolk Street to Whitcomb Street. The passageway containing the two plaque...
Westminster City Council Tony Ray-Jones, photographer, 1941 - 1972, lived and worked here. Royal Photographic Society
The building in the background of the mural is, of course, the old Wembley Stadium.
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