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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Jess Denham

Why I live in Aldgate East: furniture maker Felix Conran on his ‘endlessly entertaining’ London area

Market value: Felix and Greek rescue dog Apollo at stalls on Whitechapel High Street

(Picture: Angus Grant)

I’ve been renting my flat in Aldgate East from a friend for two years. He’d been using it as a photography studio and offered it to me at 3am one morning.

It’s in an old factory building and is a white, empty space with nice floors that I’ve been able to make an impact on. I live there with my Greek rescue dog, Apollo, and love the endlessly entertaining madness of the area.

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