IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0372 ST
Held at: Bishopsgate Institute
Title: Spitalfields Trust
Date(s): 1977-2008
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 24 boxes
Name of creator(s): Spitalfields Trust
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Spitalfields Trust was established in 1978 with the aim of saving the remaining Georgian houses in Spitalfields, London, which were under threat of redevelopment as the city’s financial centre expanded eastwards. The Trust's intervention helped to save a number of eighteenth century roads including Fournier, Princelet, Wilkes, Elder and Folgate Streets. By 1993 the Trust's successes in the East End led it to branch-out to other areas of the country, notably restoring and repairing Allt-y-Bela in Usk, Monmouthshire, a late medieval farmhouse.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Spitalfields Trust, including paper about redevelopment of Fashion Street, Durwood Street, Spitalfields Market, Bishopsgate Goods Yard, Rugby Street, Leopold Avenue, Mare Street, Kerbella Street, Lambeth Walk, Mile End Road, Spital Square, Mansell Street, Artillary Lane, Artillary Row, Artillary Passage, Albury Street, Alie Street, Ashfield Street, Fleur de Lys Street, Princelet Street, Shoreditch High Street, Harpur Estate, Greenwich Church Street, Upper Street, Borough High Street, Nelson Square, Clinton Road, Folgate and Elder Gardens, Brushfield Street, Commercial Road, Elder Street, New Road, Quaker Street and Wheeler Street. Also includes papers about CrossRail railway development, Allt-y-Bela in Monmouthshire, Bedford Institute and Sandys Row Synagogue, as well as papers of the Architectual Heritage Fund, Heritage of London Trust, English Heritage, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Hackney Building Exploratory, Blackheath Preservation Trust, and the Conservation Advisory Group, (c.1977-2006).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
ST/1-76
Conditions governing access:
OPEN
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopying and digital photography (without flash) is permitted for research purposes on completion of the Library's Copyright Declaration form and with respect to current UK copyright law.
Finding aids:
Copy of handlist available in Library Reading Room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited by the Spitalfields Trust in 2013.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: February 2014