View of Chrisp Street Market Tower, with its distinctive criss-cross brickwork pattern. Chrisp Street Market Tower, Poplar, Unit

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Chrisp Street Market was the first purpose-built pedestrian shopping area in the UK, located in Poplar in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, and forms part of the eastern edge of the Lansbury Estate. It features a prominent clock tower. It was designed by Frederick Gibberd, and built as part of the Festival of Britain in 1951.

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