The Theatre was constructed in Shoreditch in 1576 by James Burbage with his brother-in-law John Brayne ( the owner of the unsuccessful Red Lion playhouse of 1567 ) and the Newington Butts playhouse was set up, probably by Jerome Savage, some time between 1575 and 1577.

After exhibiting in small galleries in Shoreditch, London, the Stuckists ' first show in a major public museum was held in 2004 at the Walker Art Gallery, as part of the Liverpool Biennial.

He was the son of a bricklayer who had raised himself to the status of a gentleman and who, interestingly, owned property adjoining the Curtain theatre in Shoreditch.

At Shoreditch a connection was made with the Great Eastern Railway to.

In 1900, the Old Nichol Street Rookery was demolished, and the Boundary Estate opened on the site near the boundary with Shoreditch.

The medieval parish of Shoreditch ( St Leonard's ), was once part of the county of Middlesex but became part of the new County of London in 1889.

The Borough was made up of three districts-Shoreditch, Hoxton and Haggerston-and administered from Shoreditch Town Hall, which can still be seen on Old Street.

Shoreditch was incorporated into the much larger London Borough of Hackney in 1965.

Though now part of the inner city, Shoreditch was previously an extramural suburb of the City of London, centred around Shoreditch Church at the crossroads where Shoreditch High Street and Kingsland Road are intersected by Old Street and Hackney Road.

This priory was located between Shoreditch High Street and Curtain Road to east and west and Batemans Row and Holywell Lane to north and south.

The suburb of Shoreditch was attractive as a location for these early theatres because it was outside the jurisdiction of the somewhat puritanical City fathers.

By the 19th century Shoreditch was also the locus of the furniture industry, now commemorated in the Geffrye Museum on Kingsland Road.

However the area declined along with both textile and furniture industries and by the end of the 19th Century Shoreditch was a byword for crime, prostitution and poverty.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Shoreditch was a centre of entertainment to rival the West-End and boasted many theatres and Music halls:

In the past the area of Shoreditch was defined by the borders of the parish of Shoreditch which later defined the borders of the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.

Hoxton to the north of Old Street was historically part of Shoreditch parish and borough and is still, often, conflated with it.

* William James Blacklock, British landscape artist, was born in Shoreditch in 1816.

In 2005 funding was announced for the East London Line Extension which would extend the existing line from Whitechapel tube station bypassing Shoreditch tube station ( which closed in June 2006 ) and creating a new station titled Shoreditch High Street at the site of the old Bishopsgate Goods Yard which was demolished in 2004.

The site remained derelict for over 30 years but has now been redeveloped as Shoreditch High Street station, part of the extension of London Underground's East London Line to form part of the London Overground network.

The Newington Butts playhouse may have been built as early as 1575, certainly actor Jerome Savage renewed a lease on the site on 25 March 1576, three weeks before Burbage's lease in Shoreditch.

Following an extended period of planning, the entire site was demolished in 2004, with the exception of a number of Grade II listed structures: the Ornamental Gates on Shoreditch High Street and the remaining of the so called " Braithwaite Viaduct ", one of the oldest railway structures in the world and the second oldest in London, designed by John Braithwaite.

In 1675, it became a dedicated meeting house, the Box Meeting, used mainly by Quaker women for poor relief, on her marriage .< ref >< cite > Quakers Around Shoreditch ( Andrew Roberts, ed.

96. 5 MHz FM radiates from a 60 watt transmitter located in the gardens of the converted house at Shoreditch in Taunton, from which Heart Somerset was based.

A large house on Cooper's Hill, overlooking Runnymede and the River Thames, has played a number of roles – as the Royal Indian Engineering College ; wartime Post Office headquarters ; storage for the Statue of Eros during World War II ; an emergency teacher training college ; Shoreditch College – a centre for craft and handiwork education – and most recently, Brunel University's design school ( has removed to Uxbridge Main Campus ).

This prompted the construction of permanent playhouses outside the jurisdiction of London, in the liberties of Halliwell / Holywell in Shoreditch and later the Clink, and at Newington Butts near the established entertainment district of St. George's Fields in rural Surrey.

This prompted the construction of playhouses outside the jurisdiction of London, in the liberties of Halliwell / Holywell in Shoreditch and later the Clink, and at Newington Butts near the established entertainment district of St. George's Fields in rural Surrey.

The Frythe was part of the property of Holywell Priory, Shoreditch, and in 1523 William Wilshere obtained a sixty years ' lease of the Frythe from the priory.

* The Stuart Hall Library, Iniva's reference library at Rivington Place in Shoreditch, London is named after Stuart Hall, who was the chair of the board of Iniva for many years.

The halls were named after Shoreditch staff: Scrivens, Marshall, Bradley, Reed and Rowan.

On 19 March 2009, several buildings in Shoreditch, East London, were evacuated after water company workers discovered a replica of the Holy Hand Grenade under a fire hydrant cover.

Image: Shoreditch stn closed. JPG | 18 months after closure, December 2007

In 2003, under the title A Dead Shark Isn't Art, the gallery exhibited a shark which had first been put on public display in 1989 ( two years before Damien Hirst's ) by Eddie Saunders in his Shoreditch shop, JD Electrical Supplies.

Parrott's route began on Goswell Road, before turning down Old Street, finishing at St Leonard's, Shoreditch.

Electric services began on 31 March 1913 and ran from the two southern termini to Shoreditch and via and.

However, two London Overground lines serve Hackney: the North London Line crosses from west to east while the East London Line runs from Highbury & Islington and passes through Dalston Junction and on south through Haggerston, Hoxton, Shoreditch towards destinations south of the River Thames, including Crystal Palace, Croydon, and New Cross.

This legend is commemorated today by a large painting, at Haggerston Branch Library, of Jane Shore being retrieved from the ditch, and by a design on glazed tiles in a shop in Shoreditch High Street showing her meeting Edward IV.

Other traditions of working class entertainment survive on Shoreditch High Street where the music halls of yesteryear have been replaced by the greatest concentration of striptease venues in London ( Clifton 2002 ).

A pub sign that claimed that he drank in the White Horse on Shoreditch High Street has recently been removed.

* Nat Wei, Baron Wei, of Shoreditch, youngest non-hereditary peer ever upon entry to the House of Lords and government advisor on Big Society.

The construction of the station was driven by the desire of the company to have a terminal closer to the City than the one opened by the predecessor Eastern Counties Railway at Shoreditch, on 1 July 1840.

There was much embryonic activity in the Hoxton / Shoreditch area of East London focused on Joshua Compston's gallery.

The brothers maintained a close working and personal relationship throughout their lives ; they were neighbors on Halliwell Street in Shoreditch, near the Theatre.

Home's novels in this period no longer incorporated subcultural elements and instead focused on issues of form and aesthetics: 69 Things To Do With A Dead Princess contains capsule reviews of dozens of obscure books as well as elaborate descriptions of stone circles, while in Down and Out In Shoreditch & Hoxton every paragraph is exactly 100 words long.

At the east end of Old Street on the south side is the old Shoreditch Town Hall.

Banksy especially has featured several pieces on " Shoreditch Bridge ".

Brown had come from a dinner in Shoreditch where he had already drunk a great deal, and drank more while preparing to go on air-having a row with actor Eli Wallach which became physical.

In preparation for the future extension of the East London Line to and, the line north of Whitechapel to Shoreditch was closed on 9 June 2006.

Work on the extension of the East London Line commenced and the line closed on 22 December 2007 and reopened on 27 April 2010 when tracks on a new alignment were connected to a disused North London Line viaduct from Shoreditch to Dalston.

Shoreditch tube station on a 1915 map of the East London line