Spitalfield; Perhaps it’s not the most
attractive name for a London suburb. But its early music halls propelled Charlie Chaplin to
international stardom. As a major entertainment district for many decades,
fashion styles evolve in the evenings as the pub and cub scene come alive. Up
and down the streets and alleyways in a mixture of classes and cultures.
Also famous for The artist Mark Gertler
(1891-1939) is perhaps most admired for his 1916 painting The Merry-Go-Round,
which hangs prominently at Tate Modern. He is less favourably immortalised in
the 1995 biopic Carrington, in which he is portrayed as the tormented lover of
the androgynous Bloomsbury artist Dora Carrington.