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Guide to Shoreditch

Your essential Guide to Shoreditch, covering the area’s culture, stories, local spots, creative scene, and neighbourhood highlights.

The front of Shoreditch Town Hall on Old Street

Guide to Shoreditch

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31/10/2026

Shoreditch Town Hall heard the whole inquest into Mary Jane Kelly, the last of Jack the Ripper’s five canonical victims, in a single day in November 1888, after jurors protested that she had not died in Shoreditch

Shakespeare Garden at St Leonard's church, Shoreditch

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31/10/2026

Ben Jonson killed an actor in a duel in Hoxton Fields in 1598 with a sword he said was 10 inches shorter than his opponent’s, and escaped the gallows by reading a verse of the Bible in Latin

The two-tier galleried auditorium of Hoxton Hall on Hoxton Street, lit for a concert

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28/10/2026

Hoxton Hall lost its music hall licence in 1871 after police complaints, eight years after it opened on Hoxton Street, and spent the next century as a temperance mission and a Quaker institute

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28/10/2026

Hoxton House, the private asylum on Hoxton Street where Charles Lamb spent six weeks, held 484 people in 1815, among them 152 officers and men of the Royal Navy

The former Gainsborough film studios site on Poole Street in Hoxton

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26/10/2026

Alfred Hitchcock learned to make films in a converted railway power station on Poole Street in Hoxton, and The Lady Vanishes was shot there in 1938

Painting of a scene from the Victorian play Jane Shore by John Atkinson Grimshaw

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25/10/2026

Shoreditch was not named after Jane Shore, the royal mistress said to have died in a ditch there: the name was written down as Soredich around 1148, about 300 years before she was born

Red-brick former Shoreditch electricity station on Coronet Street, now the National Centre for Circus Arts

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24/10/2026

In 1897 Shoreditch began burning its rubbish to light its streets, and the power station that did it on Coronet Street is now the National Centre for Circus Arts

The reconstructed Shakespeare's Globe theatre on Bankside, Southwark

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23/10/2026

Shakespeare’s company took apart their Shoreditch playhouse over Christmas 1598 while the landlord was away, and its timbers went into building the Globe

The covered hall of Old Spitalfields Market in November

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20/10/2026

Christmas in Shoreditch 2026: markets, late shopping and festive events in East London

Stalls under the roof of Old Spitalfields Market

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20/10/2026

Old Spitalfields Market: opening times, food stalls and what is on each day of the week

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19/10/2026

Shoreditch area guide: where it starts and ends, how to get there and what each corner is known for

St Leonard's church tower at the north end of Shoreditch High Street

Guide to Shoreditch

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18/10/2026

Shoreditch Town Hall heard the whole inquest into Mary Jane Kelly, the last of Jack the Ripper’s five canonical victims, in a single day in November 1888, after jurors protested that she had not died in Shoreditch

Bottle Factory Flea, the vintage market started by the Peckham Car Boot team, brings more than 40 traders to Hackney Bridge on Sunday 8 November, with £5 early entry and £3 after midday

Imad’s Syrian Kitchen, which started as a pop-up on Columbia Road in 2017, opens its second restaurant on Blossom Street in Shoreditch on 18 November with 71 covers and dishes only served there

Guide to Shoreditch

Shoreditch Town Hall heard the whole inquest into Mary Jane Kelly, the last of Jack the Ripper’s five canonical victims, in a single day in November 1888, after jurors protested that she had not died in Shoreditch

Ben Jonson killed an actor in a duel in Hoxton Fields in 1598 with a sword he said was 10 inches shorter than his opponent’s, and escaped the gallows by reading a verse of the Bible in Latin

Hoxton Hall lost its music hall licence in 1871 after police complaints, eight years after it opened on Hoxton Street, and spent the next century as a temperance mission and a Quaker institute

Hoxton House, the private asylum on Hoxton Street where Charles Lamb spent six weeks, held 484 people in 1815, among them 152 officers and men of the Royal Navy

Alfred Hitchcock learned to make films in a converted railway power station on Poole Street in Hoxton, and The Lady Vanishes was shot there in 1938

Shoreditch was not named after Jane Shore, the royal mistress said to have died in a ditch there: the name was written down as Soredich around 1148, about 300 years before she was born

In 1897 Shoreditch began burning its rubbish to light its streets, and the power station that did it on Coronet Street is now the National Centre for Circus Arts

Shakespeare’s company took apart their Shoreditch playhouse over Christmas 1598 while the landlord was away, and its timbers went into building the Globe

Christmas in Shoreditch 2026: markets, late shopping and festive events in East London

Old Spitalfields Market: opening times, food stalls and what is on each day of the week

Shoreditch area guide: where it starts and ends, how to get there and what each corner is known for

Shoreditch High Street guide: the Roman road, St Leonard’s church, Boxpark, the Tea Building and where to eat

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