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Evening Standard
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Cat Olley

Why I live in Spitalfields: pop artist Philip Colbert on life in his 'historical' east London patch

I’ve always thought that Spitalfields is the centre of London somehow.

I’m fascinated by the origin of the city being more the east side, with the Tower of London, the old city wall, the Roman occupied area. Even now it feels like this little pocket of old London.

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