Zangwill's Spitalfields is a walking tour of the Spitalfields area of London. The walk begins at the corner of Fashion Street and Commercial Street, London E1 and takes about 2 hours. Tap a numbered pip on the map and your phone will play an audio-visual guide to that site. You can also scroll through the images by swiping the slider at the bottom of the screen.

Take care in crossing roads and in busy pedestrian areas.

Written and produced by Nadia Valman
Reader: David Tughan
Developer: Soda Ltd www.soda.co.uk
Supported by the Queen Mary University of London Innovation Fund

This project has been developed in collaboration with the Jewish Museum London.

Thanks to: Fiddian Warman, Jonathan Jones-Morris, Matt Rubery, Tessa Whitehouse, Alfred Hiatt, Tomas Cicecki, Charlie Pinder, Adam Sutcliffe, Brigid Howarth, Elizabeth Selby, Alice Quine, Judith Vandervelde, Melanie Strong, Natasha Luck, Robin Green, Samirah Akuji, Jhorna Yasmin, Stephanie Pickerill, Lara Atkin, Lucie Glasheen.

Permission to use images and documents from the following archives is gratefully acknowledged:

  • George Arkell, Jewish Population map (1899) and Ellen Gertrude Cohen, 'Jewish Tailor's Workshop' (1891) © Museum of London. No unauthorised reproduction permitted. Please contact the Museum of London Picture Library for permission to reproduce.
  • 19-23 Princelet Street, front elevations (1980); Great Synagogue, corner of Brick Lane and Fournier Street (1972), Newly erected artisan dwellings, Artizan Street (c. 1880), courtesy of London Metropolitan Archives, City of London.
  • Postcard of Middlesex Street, Jews Free School, Petticoat Lane; Laws of the Machzikey Hadass and Shomre Shaboss; Society for Chanting and Visiting the Sick Account Book; Charlotte de Rothschild Buildings (1973), courtesy of Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives.
  • Interior of Spitalfields Great Synagogue, courtesy of Survey of London, via British History Online.
  • Beatrice Webb, 'The Wholesale Clothing Trade' (1887), courtesy of LSE Archives.

All other archive photographs, documents and objects © Jewish Museum London.