Union Place, E1
A view of Union Place in Spitalfields (1901)
Credit: Horace Warner/The Religious Society of Friends in Britain
Union Place was a small alleyway off Quaker Street.

In December 1656 William Browne, a weaver, had taken a lease of three acres of pasture. He built ’the greene waie or lane there called the newe street’. This was subsequently called Westbury Street, later Quaker Street.

It is unknown when Union Place was developed but it is extant on the 1750s Rocque map.

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