- 28 Redchurch Street
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51.524393, -0.0759102 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)
- Pole with a bicycle hoop nearby
- Copy the shape of the hoop
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Drawing
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Historical background
Redchurch Street and Shoreditch
The East End of London nowadays is one of the most popular place among hipsters. However, this area has a long and amazing history. It started with a narrow strip of road which ran from Shoreditch to Bethnal Green but around the 17th century it gradually became a built up area. A lot of silk and textile industry workers were in desperate need of homes so the building boom of cheap houses hit the place in 1730’s. The sense of bygone poverty is still present in this area, in the churchyard and above the upraised round square called Arnold Circus. The main square, still unnamed, is pinpointed with romantic spire of the Palladian style church of St Leonard. The main character of “1984” keeps singing a nursery rhyme in which the bells of St Leonard toll, “When I grow rich...”
Redchurch Street has had a lot of ups and downs but recent restoration has brought it to the high standard as a culture centre of East London and attracts the attention of the visitors and local bohemians. During last decade undergoing rapid gentrification completely changed Shoreditch — lots of “creative class” people settled here. Old factories and plants have been refurbished into offices, IT-startups and studios; a lot of bars, pubs, art-galleries and modern coffe-shops were opened. Shoreditch is very famous for its art-street culture so look out for some masterpieces.
// by Garry Knight (Own work) [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)], via Flickr
Present in routes of categories Lion-Light, Lion-Pro, Angel, Horseman
Passed by: 70/83 (84%).
By categories:
- Angel: 8/14 (57%)
- Horseman: 1/1 (100%)
- Lion-Light: 18/25 (72%)
- Lion-Pro: 43/43 (100%)