| Architect |
Fredrick
Gibberd |
| Date Built |
1951 |
| Location |
Crisp
Street, Poplar |
| Description |
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The Crisp Street
Market occupies a site that was once
home to a Victorian street market.
 Designed by Frederick Gibberd, and part of the Lansbury Estate, Crisp Street Market was apparently the first fully pedestrianized shopping centre in the UK. It was part of the "Living Architecture" element of the Festival of Britain and, as such, meant to be an example of modern urban design.    The open market area is flanked by typical housing of that period.      The clock tower
still graces the market and, sixty
three years after it was erected, the
clock is still working and keeping
good time, at least it was in June of
2014 when I took these images.
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Crisp
Street Market, Poplar, London
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