North of the The City walls, the areas always offered protection to people who did not wnat to belong to The City or that were not welcome, like the Hugonots in the 17th century o immigrants from Europe or Bengala.
Sites to visit:
- Smithfield market
- Saint Botolph church
- Museum of London
- Charterhouse
- Cloth Fair street (where there was the most important clothes market in Tudor times)
- Saint Bartholomew the Great church
- Barbican (it holds 2 theatres, a concert hall, 2 cinemas, an important art gallery, a library with important sections on children and on music, a greenhouse, and the Guildhall school of Music and Drama)
- Saint Giles church
- Whitebread's Brewery (old beer factory, of course)
- Bunhill Fields (it became a cemetery after the Black Death; important writers are buried there: Daniel Defoe, John Bunyan and William Blake)
- Wesley's Chapel-Leysian Mission
- Broadgate Centre
- Whitechapel Art Gallery
- Old Spitalfields Market
- Christ Church
- Fournier Street
- London Jamme Masjid
- Spitalfields Centre Museum of Immigration and Diversity
- Brick Lane (Bengal London)
- Dennis Severs House
- Columbia Road Market
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