With its bantering stallholders loudly extolling the virtues of their fruit and veg and excitable teenage girls sifting through piles of knock-off designer bags, Roman Road Market is not a place to go to nurse a hangover on a Saturday morning. It might be one of the last surviving pockets of authentic East End London, resisting the gentrification that has embraced much of Tower Hamlets, but Bethnal Green’s resistance is weakening, wooed by a series of major new developments and fashionable small conversions that are warming it up for a place in the league table of hotspots. You have only to look at the location, three miles north-east of Charing Cross, and its proximity to Shoreditch and Brick Lane, to know that no matter how shabby the shopping in Bethnal Green Road, regardless of how gritty and untrendy its streets, where you’ll search in vain for a chain coffee shop or artisanal bakery, it is still a place that is ready to rock. Despite the damage done by the Blitz and grim social housing that later emerged, keen renovators can still find outstanding period houses, while major housebuilders are already on to the opportunities provided by abandoned Victorian institutes and… Read full this story
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