London Districts: Shoreditch (Documentary)

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The district of Shoreditch falls under the London Borough of Hackney in London's East End.
The most plausible story derives the name from the Old English term ‘Soersditch’ meaning ‘Sewer’s Ditch’.
Old Spitalfields Market dates back to 1638. It sells anything from fresh fruit and furniture to pastries and antiques.
Shoreditch is without doubt a treasured part of London well-known for art, culture, fashion and food and prides itself on creativity and quirkiness. As one mural states, the melting pot is boiling over!
The area known as the Silicon Roundabout, essentially Old Street, is emerging as ‘the third-largest technology start-up cluster after San Francisco and New York City’. Google, Amazon and Cisco have all set up shop round there. You'll be lucky to find a one-bedroom place for anything less than half a mill.
For a long time, the focal point of Shoreditch was its church. St Leonard's is referenced in the traditional English nursery rhyme 'Oranges and Lemons'.
The Boundary Estate of 1900 sits on the district boundary as the oldest council estate in London. The soil from its foundations form the circular centrepiece mound that is Arnold Circus which It loops itself around. The circus is topped off with a community garden and bandstand.
Brick Lane is a rainbow of colour and diversity, idyllic for foodies and shopaholics. It is the heart of the city's Bangladeshi community and is named this way because it was rich in clay and earth deposits which became very useful for creating bricks and tiles to rebuild areas after the Great Fire.
Brick Lane used to sell goats, snakes, monkeys and lion cubs until the RSPCA stepped in to close it down in the 80's after thousands of complaints were made. You'll find vintage clothes, unique furniture and exotic food and there over 50 curry restaurants to choose from on Brick Lane itself! A failed campaign in 2006 tried to get Aldgate East tube station renamed as Brick Lane to improve tourist trade before the 2012 Olympics.
Network Rail has gifted this land to the Nomadic Community Gardens for showcasing sculptures, paintings, weird structures, bee keeping, clothing and growing stuff. It manages to forge urban beauty from random materials and discarded junk all laced in spray paint.
Speaking of spray paint Shoreditch is the place for London street art and is used as the main reference point for areas becoming more and more littered with graffiti, stickers, murals and event posters.
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Spray painters tag just about everything in sight. Their designs are mostly complex requiring advanced skill to pull off. Masterpieces don't last long though. Once he finished this piece, it was replaced the very next day!
The 24/7 Beigel Bake shop is probably the most famous shop on the world-famous Brick Lane. They make thousands of salt beef bagels a day, baked from scratch in-house.
This flower market populates Columbia Road every Sunday between 8 and 3pm come rain or shine. Its a great place for flowers but the world and his wife know about it. It gets extremely busy, especially on sunny days, when crowd levels feel like the Notting Hill Carnival so arrive either very early or towards the end to walk around more easily.
Shoreditch is the birthplace of English theatre in two forms. Shakespeare’s original playhouse, The Curtain Theatre of 1577, was rediscovered in 2012 through excavation. The recovered remains will be housed in a large multi-purpose development called 'The Stage' once completed in 2021. The first playhouse in England was rightfully just called 'The Theatre'. It was dismantled and reassembled on the Bankside in Southwark as the Globe Theatre.

[@geogonout8404]

Superb work here! Using for GCSE Geography lessons, many schools use Shoreditch as part of the course studies and your video fits well and gives students a real insight into the history, culture and changes that have occurred. Thanks

[@davidsmith2356]

My Great Grandad had a workshop in New Inn Street 7.08 the 2nd floor of the building with the street sign. Drawing room cabinet maker in the early 1900's... He lived in Curtain Road.

[@Martin_Bundsen]

Great work Dewyne! Honoured to be part of it...

[@LondonDistricts]

We appreciate your involvement my friend! :)

[@MrWatchme1989]

I was born and raised here my whole life. Right next to the Spitalfields market. Can't wait to see you cover Whitechapel. The east end is just so full of culture.

[@LondonDistricts]

We can't wait to finish off Whitechapel. That episode will be extra interesting. Thanks for the comment.

[@EliteXtasy]

The song Being a Dickhead's Cool pops into my head when I think of this part of London. Top notch video!

[@brettharter143]

i'm actually singing it in my head right now as i view 2 years later :D

[@greyhound1racing]

top work mate

[@LondonDistricts]

Cheers

[@muja28]

love your video I grew up in Hoxton and left for Australia in 1982 nice to see how things have changed For the better in Shoreditch

[@jengayapersad5852]

Another excellent production.

[@kimfreeman3934]

Didn't know about The Nomadic Community Gardens, will make a visit. Thanks for your tours.

[@bigmoose7]

Its full of people smoking weed normally

[@georgefreitas232]

Absolutely delicious to watch your videos mate...congrats They r classy

[@LondonDistricts]

This comment made my day. One of my favourite episodes. Thanks and stay tuned for more.

[@JfK--OBJECTivE]

Your tone of voice are perfect for these documentaries, congratulations!

[@LondonDistricts]

Wow, thank you!

[@NickyM_0]

Underrated video and channel. Fantastic video. New subbie!

[@LondonDistricts]

Thanks for the sub Jenny! Spread the word and let's sort the under's from the rated's.

[@foreignparticle1320]

I am from a long lineage of working class poor, from Shoreditch. My grandfather managed to emigrate in the mid 20th C. When I moved to England a few years ago to get in touch with my roots, I couldn't believe my eyes when I went to Shoreditch: the hipster factor is REAL. I can't stand the place. Great video though! This whole series is fantastic.

[@LondonDistricts]

Thanks for watching.

[@jimmya.2300]

Good stuff Dewyne

[@rufusblacklock4024]

Didn't know about Oranges & Lemons, kickin vid as ever :)

[@purplebeauty6969]

Some parts of Shoreditch are in the London borough of tower hamlets as well.

[@LondonDistricts]

Yep.

[@darganx]

Is that early 20th Century painter Mark Gertler's house at 0:30? It had a blue plaque and he lived in Spitalsfields.. The Bagel shop on Brick Lane 😝 one of the few shops I would cross London for honestly! Bought a salmon and cream cheese bagel there around 2005, I swear I can still taste it 😝

[@OnnMoore]

Don't know how I've just barely seen your vids, but I'm gonna binge watch all the way from Southern California man. AWESOME stuff! Givin' me all the feels I need for my #London2019 wish list visit! Bravo :)

[@LondonDistricts]

Binge-watching is the way! Tell all your mates aswell yeah? Thanks for supporting.

[@OnnMoore]

@@LondonDistricts Will do man!

[@ashtray314]

Great video. Find too many videos repeat what is already known, but your vid had some great nuggets of info 👍🏾

[@LondonDistricts]

This is a very welcome observation. We shall embrace it :)

[@3nyx]

Thank you for this info, really helped with my uni assignment

[@martinvegas1327]

Can anyone remember The Termina's cafe? Owned by Tina and her husband. I use to get mushroom Risotto everytime i went in here!

[@avinashbhogun]

Gutted that the Water Poet closed down 😢😢

[@dotdots2660]

Columbia rd is in Bethnal Green tower hamlets.

[@mitchellgiffard1978]

Great work of this video would of liked to of seen parts of hoxton in this as it's in the vicinity.

[@Synchrodipity]

Spitalfields isn't Shoreditch; it's Spitalfields, with its own unique history. You pronounced beigels properly though so I'll let you off. 😎

[@mayena]

5:28-5:41 is Brick Lane more associated with the area of Spitalfields?.

[@ÉniZøXx]

👇des gens qui sont là pour les cour

[@simonebell928]

A one bed place around half a million???? 😯

[@LondonDistricts]

It averages about £560,000, so even more!

[@dommaguire2]

Brick Lane, Spitalfields, Aldgate are not Shoreditch. Shoreditch is Old St/ Clerkenwell.

[@TheOgnum]

"Street Art"? I must be old. Back in my day Graffiti was meant to convey a political message.

[@sallylynn3472]

Hi there - I'd be really interested in using some footage from your doc for a feature film - please may I have some direct contact details to discuss this? Thanks so much!

[@mickymantle3233]

I always thought the 'Shoreditch' referred to one 'Jane Shore' the mistress of King Edward 1V who, after his death, was left destitute & was thereafter forced to live & beg in the area..? Ultimately dying there in poverty in the late 1400's.

[@josephdorking2047]

LOCAL PEOPLE MAY HAVE HAD HALF A CHANCE TO BUY A PROPERTY. OUTLANDERS MOVED IN AND THE PRICES OF PROPERTY HAS GONE MAD NO CHANCE FOR LOCALS KNOW. TO BUY CHEAP EATS IN SHOREDITCH YEA IT WOULD HAVE TO BE .

[@dilawarhussain2688]

Its Tower Hamlets not Hackney!

[@PeterShieldsukcatstripey]

piss off google!

[@owenallen8686]

Brixton or nowhere nowhere

[@MattF12765]

Great video but bloody awful background music.