Spitalfields Trust

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0372 ST
Held at	: Bishopsgate Institute   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/library ›
Full title	: Spitalfields Trust
Date(s)	: 1977-2008
Level of description	: Fonds
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 & 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

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
February 2014