Editing Shoreditch (section)

==History==
===Origins===
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[[File:Shoreditch church.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Shoreditch church]]
Though now part of [[Inner London]], Shoreditch was previously an extramural suburb of the City of London, centred on [[Shoreditch Church]] at the old crossroads where [[Shoreditch High Street]] and [[Kingsland Road]] are crossed by [[Old Street]] and [[Hackney Road]].

Shoreditch High Street and Kingsland Road are a small sector of the Roman [[Ermine Street]] and modern [[A10 road (Great Britain)|A10]]. Known also as the Old North Road, it was a major coaching route to the north, exiting the City at [[Bishopsgate]]. The east–west course of Old Street–Hackney Road was also probably originally a Roman Road, connecting [[Calleva Atrebatum|Silchester]] with [[Camulodunum|Colchester]], bypassing the City of London to the south.<ref>Sugden n.d.</ref>

Shoreditch Church (officially known as [[St Leonard's, Shoreditch]]) is of ancient origin. It is featured in the famous line "when I grow rich say the bells of Shoreditch", from the English nursery rhyme "[[Oranges and Lemons]]".

Shoreditch was the site of a house of canonesses, the [[Augustinians|Augustinian]] [[Holywell Priory]] (named after a Holy Well on the site), from the 12th century until its [[Dissolution of the Monasteries|dissolution]] in 1539. 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. Nothing remains of it today.<ref>Wood 2003.</ref>

===Shakespeare and the Elizabethan theatre===
[[File:St Leonards Memorial.JPG|thumb|right|upright|Memorial to Elizabethan actors buried in [[St Leonard's, Shoreditch|Shoreditch church]]]]
In 1574, the City authorities banned the building of playhouses in the City of London area. Consequently, theatres were built in the suburbs, beyond its jurisdiction.<ref>{{cite book |editor-first=Hugh |editor-last=Clout |title=The Times History of London |location=London |publisher=Times Books |year=1999 |isbn=9780723010302 |page=146 }}</ref>

The first of these came in 1576, when [[James Burbage]] built the first playhouse in England, known as "[[The Theatre]]", on the site of the Priory (commemorated today by a plaque on Curtain Road, and excavated in 2008, by [[MoLAS]]).<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/aug/07/shakespeare.shoreditch ''Shakespeare's Shoreditch theatre unearthed''] Maev Kennedy, ''[[The Guardian]]'', Thursday, 7 August 2008</ref>

[[William Shakespeare]] lived nearby in a property overlooking [[St Helen's Church, Bishopsgate|St Helen's]] churchyard in the [[Bishopsgate|Bishopsgate Within]] area of the City. His early plays were first performed in Shoreditch, at The Theatre and at the nearby [[Curtain Theatre]], built the following year<ref name="madeinshoreditch.co.uk">{{cite web|url=http://madeinshoreditch.co.uk/2014/09/15/the-shoreditch-you-never-knew/|title=The Shoreditch You Never Knew – Made in Shoreditch Magazine|date=15 September 2014}}</ref> and {{convert|200|yd|m|0}} to the south (marked by a commemorative plaque in Hewett Street off Curtain Road). ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' was first performed here, gaining "Curtain plaudits", ''[[Henry V (play)|Henry V]]'' was performed within "this wooden O" and an early version of ''[[Hamlet]]'' was also first staged in Shoreditch.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/22/at-shakespeares-theatre-in-shoreditch/|title=At Shakespeare's Theatre In Shoreditch – Spitalfields Life|website=spitalfieldslife.com|access-date=13 June 2019}}</ref>

Shakespeare's Company moved the timbers of "The Theatre" to [[Southwark]] at the expiration of the lease in 1599, in order to construct the [[Globe Theatre|Globe]]. The Curtain continued performing plays in Shoreditch until at least 1627.<ref>Shapiro 2005.</ref>

The suburb of Shoreditch was attractive as a location for these early theatres because, like [[Southwark]], it was outside the jurisdiction of the somewhat puritanical City fathers. Even so, they drew the wrath of contemporary moralists, as did the local "base tenements and houses of unlawful and disorderly resort" and the "great number of dissolute, loose, and insolent people harboured in such and the like noisome and disorderly houses, as namely poor cottages, and habitations of beggars and people without trade, stables, inns, alehouses, taverns, garden-houses converted to dwellings, ordinaries, dicing houses, bowling alleys, and brothel houses".<ref>Middlesex Justices in 1596; cited in Schoenbaum 1987, p. 126.</ref>

===17th and 18th centuries===
During the 17th century, wealthy traders and French [[Huguenot]] silkweavers moved to the area, establishing a textile industry centred to the south around Spitalfields. By the 19th century, Shoreditch was also the locus of the furniture industry,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/3343890/Roving-eye-Shoreditch.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/3343890/Roving-eye-Shoreditch.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Roving eye: Shoreditch|first=Naomi|last=Cleaver|date=5 August 2005|work=The Daily Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref> now commemorated in the [[Museum of the Home]] on Kingsland Road. These industries declined in the late 19th century.

===19th century===
In 1886, the parish of Holy Trinity, Shoreditch, was created to meet the needs of a growing population; the first vicar was the [[Anglo-Catholic]] priest, Arthur Osborne Montgomery Jay, son of William James Jay, chaplain to [[Duleep Singh]].  By 1889, Holy Trinity church, with a church hall and school, had opened on Old Nichol Street.<ref name="vch">{{cite web |title=Bethnal Green: List of Churches Pages 217-226  A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 11, Stepney, Bethnal Green. |url=https://archive.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol11/pp217-226 |website=British History Online |publisher=Victoria County History, 1998 |access-date=2 January 2025}}</ref> Controversially, the church hosted a boxing club and gymnasium, which Father Jay saw as vital to reclaiming local men from street brawls.<ref>{{cite web |title=Inside the skin of a slum |url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2008/4-july/news/uk/inside-the-skin-of-a-slum |website=Church Times |access-date=2 January 2025}}</ref> In 1894, the church opened a lodging house, Trinity Chambers.<ref name="vch"></ref>

In 1893, work began on building the [[Boundary Estate]], as a [[slum clearance]] project.

===Victorian entertainments===
[[File:1867 NationalStandardTheatre.jpg|thumb|upright|left|1867 poster from the National Standard Theatre]]
[[File:HettyKingDark.jpg|thumb|right|upright|1907 [[Hetty King]] sheet music, expressing a concern of modern residents]]

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Shoreditch was a centre of entertainment to rival the [[West End of London|West End]] and had many theatres and [[music hall]]s:

* The National Standard Theatre, 2/3/4 Shoreditch High Street (1837–1940). In the late 19th century this was one of the largest theatres in London. In 1926, it was converted into a cinema called The New Olympia Picturedrome. The building was demolished in 1940. [[Sims Reeves]], Mrs Marriott and James Anderson all appeared here; also performed were programmes of classical opera and even Shakespeare, with actors including [[Henry Irving]]. There was considerable rivalry with the West End theatres. John Douglass (the owner, from 1845) wrote a letter to ''The Era'' following a [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane|Drury Lane]] first night, in which he commented that "seeing that a hansom cab is used in the new drama at Drury Lane, I beg to state that a hansom cab, drawn by a live horse was used in my drama ... produced at the Standard Theatre ... with real rain, a real flood, and a real balloon."<ref>{{cite web|title=Shoreditch Theatres and Halls|url=http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Shoreditch.htm|website=Arthur Lloyd|access-date=4 November 2016}}</ref>
* The Shoreditch Empire, also known as The London Music Hall, 95–99 Shoreditch High Street (1856–1935). The theatre was rebuilt in 1894 by [[Frank Matcham]], the architect of the [[Hackney Empire]]. [[Charlie Chaplin]] is recorded as performing here, in his early days, before he achieved fame in America.<ref>{{cite web|title=Shoreditch Empire|url=http://www.overthefootlights.co.uk/20.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019221738/http://www.overthefootlights.co.uk/20.pdf |archive-date=2013-10-19 |url-status=live|website=Over the Footlights|access-date=4 November 2016}}</ref> Purchased in 1934 by adjacent drapery business [[Jeremiah Rotherham & Co]] and rebuilt as a warehouse.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31661163/london_music_hall_purchase_by_jeremiah/ Satisfactory turnover] ''The Guardian'', London, 28 Feb 1935, p. 14</ref>
* The Royal Cambridge Music Hall, 136 [[Commercial Street, London|Commercial Street]] (1864–1936), was destroyed by fire in 1896, then rebuilt in 1897 by [[Finch Hill]], architect of the [[Britannia Theatre]], in nearby [[Hoxton]]. ''[[Building (magazine)|The Builder]]'' of 4 December 1897 said "The New Cambridge Music Hall in Commercial Street, Bishopsgate, is now nearing completion. The stage will be {{convert|41|ft|m|1|disp=sqbr}} wide by {{convert|30|ft|m|1|disp=sqbr}} deep. The premises will be heated throughout by hot water coils, and provision has been made for lighting the house by electric light."

None of these places of entertainment survives today. Music hall was revived for a brief time in Curtain Road by the temporary home of the [[Brick Lane Music Hall]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bricklanemusichall.co.uk|title=Brick Lane Music Hall}}</ref> This too has now moved on.

A number of playbills and posters from these music halls survive in the collections of both the [[Bishopsgate Institute]] and the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]].

===First World War===
{{See also|20th (Service) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (Shoreditch)}}
In the [[First World War]], the Mayor, Henry Busby Bird, and [[Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch|Borough of Shoreditch]] raised a [[pals battalion]] of volunteers from around the borough who would serve together as the [[20th (Service) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (Shoreditch)]]. The battalion was also known as the 'Boxers' Battalion' (the parent Middlesex Regiment was nicknamed the 'Die-hards'). The volunteers were enlisted at Shoreditch Town Hall and trained at [[Victoria Park, Tower Hamlets|Victoria Park]] and [[Columbia Road Flower Market|Columbia Market]]. The unit served on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]] from 1916 to 1918 as part of [[121st Brigade (United Kingdom)|121st Brigade]] of [[40th Division (United Kingdom)|40th Division]], seeing action against the [[Hindenburg Line]] and at [[Battle of Cambrai (1917)|Bourlon Wood]]. After the huge casualties it suffered during the [[German spring offensive]] of March–April 1918, the battalion returned to England to be reconstituted from men of lower medical category. It then went back to Flanders as part of [[14th (Light) Division]], and served during the final victorious advance.<ref>[https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7354301 20th Middlesex War Diary, 1 June 1916–31 May 1918,  The National Archives (TNA), Kew, file WO 95/2615/4.]</ref><ref>[http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-british-infantry-regiments-of-1914-1918/the-duke-of-cambridges-own-middlesex-regiment/ Middlesex Regiment at the Long, Long Trail.]</ref><ref>[https://queensregimentalassociation.org/journals-and-newsletters/middlesex-journals/pdfs/volume-5/vol-5-2.pdf Colonel Burnand obituary, ''The Die-Hards'', Vol V, No 2, November 1934, p. 128.]</ref><ref>[https://abneypark.org/grave-stories-blog/sir-henry-busby-bird Sir Henry Busby Bird at Abney Park Trust.]</ref> The battalion's memorial is in [[St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch|St Leonard's Church]] in Shoreditch High Street.<ref>[https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/53140 Imperial War Museum, War Memorial Register, Ref 53140.]</ref>

===Inter-war years===
[[Syd's coffee stall]] was established in Calvert Avenue in 1919 and operated continuously until 2019.<ref>{{cite news |title=New life brewed for 100-year-old coffee stall |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-50833893 |access-date=6 January 2020 |work=BBC News |date=19 December 2019}}</ref>

In the 1930s, Shoreditch, Holy Trinity parish united with that of St Leonard.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://search.lma.gov.uk/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/LMA_OPAC/web_detail/REFD+P72~2FTRI?SESSIONSEARCH | title=HOLY TRINITY, BETHNAL GREEN: OLD NICHOL STREET, TOWER HAMLETS &#124; London Metropolitan Archives }}</ref><ref name="vch">{{cite web |title=Bethnal Green: List of Churches Pages 217-226  A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 11, Stepney, Bethnal Green. |url=https://archive.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol11/pp217-226 |website=British History Online |publisher=Victoria County History, 1998 |access-date=2 January 2025}}</ref>

===Second World War===
Shoreditch was heavily bombed during the [[Second World War]], with around 495 of its civilian residents killed.<ref>Commonwealth war graves site https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/find-cemeteries-memorials/cemetery-details/4004488/SHOREDITCH,%20METROPOLITAN%20BOROUGH/</ref>

The area was hit by at least 279 high explosive bombs, 6 [[parachute mine]]s 7 [[v-1 flying bomb|V-1 'doodlebugs']], 2 [[V-2 rocket]]s and many thousands of 1&nbsp;kg incendiary devices.<ref>Detailed Unexploded Ordnance Risk Assessment, by 1st Line Defence, to support the Shoreditch Village planning application</ref> The destruction of housing and industry caused by the two V-2s contributed to the opportunity to create [[Shoreditch Park]] and [[Haggerston Park]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Shoreditch Park Management Plan 2011{{ndash}}2016 |url=http://www.hackney.gov.uk/media/4361/management-plan/pdf/shoreditch-park-management-plan2 |website=www.hackney.gov.uk |access-date=1 June 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227132823/http://www.hackney.gov.uk/media/4361/management-plan/pdf/shoreditch-park-management-plan2 |archive-date=Dec 27, 2016 |language=en |date=29 Jan 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Haggerston Park | website=Hackney Council | date=24 January 2024 | url=https://hackney.gov.uk/haggerston-park/ | access-date=1 June 2024}}</ref>

===Decline===
Post-war, Shoreditch declined in conditions, as did both textile and furniture industries with competition elsewhere. This situation was exacerbated by the extensive devastation of the housing stock in the [[The Blitz|Blitz]] during the [[Second World War]], and by insensitive redevelopment in the post-war period.{{cn|date=June 2023}}

A south-west to north-east tube line called the [[Chelsea-Hackney line]] was proposed in 1970 by the then [[London Transport Board]]'s London Rail Study as the next project after the completion of the [[Victoria line]] and the [[Fleet line]] (now the [[Jubilee line]]) but was not carried forward, it would have had a new tube station near Shoreditch Church if it was built.<ref>{{Cite news|work=The Times |location=UK |title=London Transport plans third new Tube Line|date=2 January 1970}}</ref>

===Contemporary===
[[File:Guardiancoffee-boxpark.jpg|thumb|A coffee shop in Boxpark Shoreditch]]
Formerly a predominantly working-class area, since the 1990s Shoreditch has become a popular and fashionable part of London, particularly associated with the creative industries. Often conflated with its neighbouring sub-district of Hoxton, the area has been subject to considerable [[gentrification]], with accompanying rises in land and property prices.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Porter |first1=Libby |title=Whose urban renaissance? an international comparison of urban regeneration strategies |date=2009 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=9780203884539 |pages=157–166 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last=Carty | first=Peter | title=How the Young British Artists drove gentrification in Hoxton and Shoreditch | website=Evening Standard | date=19 March 2024 | url=https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/property-news/young-british-artists-gentrification-hoxton-shoreditch-b1146265.html | access-date=1 June 2024}}</ref>

Former industrial buildings have been converted to offices and flats, while Curtain Road and Old Street are notable for their clubs and pubs which offer a variety of venues to rival those of the West End. Art galleries, bars, restaurants, media businesses and the building of the [[Hackney Community College]] campus are features of this transformation.{{cn|date=June 2023}}

In the mid-1960s, the main streets of Shoreditch (Old Street, Shoreditch High Street and Curtain Road, Great Eastern Street) were formed into a {{convert|1|mi|km|round=0.5|abbr=off|adj=mid|-long|spell=in}} one-way system, which became associated with traffic congestion, poor conditions for walking and cycling, high speeds, high collision rates, and delays for bus services. The gyratory system came to be seen as "the main factor holding back the cultural regeneration of South Shoreditch"<ref>Teo Greenstraat of [[The Circus Space]], quoted in ''More Light, More Power'', No. 6, Autumn 2000.</ref> and "a block to economic recovery".<ref>Michael Pyner of Shoreditch New Deal Trust, quoted in ''More Light, More Power'', No. 6, Autumn 2000.</ref> Following a lengthy campaign,<ref>[http://www.hackney-cyclists.org.uk/shoreditch.htm ''The long road back to a two-way Shoreditch''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727072432/http://www.hackney-cyclists.org.uk/shoreditch.htm |date=27 July 2011 }} Hackney Cyclists, 2002.</ref> the then newly formed [[Transport for London]] agreed to revert most of the streets to two-way working, a project which was completed in late 2002.

[[File:Shoreditch High Street stn entrance2 April2010.jpg|thumb|left|[[Shoreditch High Street railway station]], built as part of the [[East London Line extension]].]]
In 2005, funding was announced for the [[East London Line Extension]], to extend the existing tube line from [[Whitechapel tube station]] bypassing [[Shoreditch tube station]], and to create a new station named [[Shoreditch High Street railway station|Shoreditch High Street]] closer to central Shoreditch. This is now served by [[London Overground]] services on part of the site of the old [[Bishopsgate Goods Yard]], which was demolished in 2004.<ref name="new_era">{{cite press release|title=New era of rail travel as London Overground's east London route opens to the public |url=http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/newscentre/15358.aspx|access-date=27 May 2010 |publisher=Transport for London |date=27 April 2010 }}</ref><ref name="bbc_full_service">{{cite news |title= Full service begins on newly extended East London Line |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8699262.stm|access-date=27 May 2010 |work=BBC News Online |location=London|date=23 May 2010}}</ref> 
The station was built on a viaduct and is fully enclosed in a concrete box structure. This is so future building works on the remainder of the Bishopsgate site can be undertaken keeping the station operational.<ref name="new_era"/><ref name="bbc_full_service"/>

Tower Hamlets Council made proposals to transfer the Boundary Estate to a [[housing association]] and upgrade the accommodation in 2006. A full refurbishment of one of the blocks, Iffley House was carried out by Sprunt Architects to demonstrate how this might be achieved but the proposal was rejected by a ballot of tenants in November of that year.<ref>[http://society.guardian.co.uk/offdiary/story/0,,1801852,00.html Battle of the Boundary], ''The Guardian'', 21 June 2006.</ref>

More recently, during the second "dot-com" boom, both the area and Old Street have become popular with London-based web technology companies who base their head offices around the [[East London Tech City]] district. These include [[Last.fm]], [[Dopplr]], [[Songkick]], SocialGO and [[7digital]]. These companies have tended to gravitate towards [[Old Street Roundabout]], giving rise to the term "Silicon Roundabout" to describe the area, as used by Prime Minister [[David Cameron]] in a speech in November 2010.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-11/04/david-cameron-silicon-roundabout|title=Transcript: David Cameron sets out Britain's hi-tech future|author=Duncan Geere|magazine=Wired|access-date=9 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160323164624/http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-11/04/david-cameron-silicon-roundabout|archive-date=23 March 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

As a result, the name of Shoreditch has become synonymous with the concept of contemporary "[[Hipster (contemporary subculture)|hipsterfication]]" of regenerated urban areas. As a pioneer among similar transformations across the UK, various phrases have been coined, from "Shoreditchification" to "Very Shoreditch".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/10561607/Why-this-Shoreditchification-of-London-must-stop.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/10561607/Why-this-Shoreditchification-of-London-must-stop.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Why this 'Shoreditchification' of London must stop|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=9 November 2015 |last1=Proud |first1=Alex }}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In 2014, the [[Boundary Estate]] and the nearby area came under the East Shoreditch Neighbourhood Forum. Forum status ceased to have effect on 5 February 2019 but the Neighbourhood Area designation is unaffected by the expiry.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/lgnl/planning_and_building_control/planning_policy_guidance/neighbourhood_planning/East_Shoreditch.aspx |title=East Shoreditch |publisher=Towerhamlets.gov.uk |access-date=2020-05-03}}</ref>

[[Stag's Head, Hoxton|The Stag's Head public house]] was [[listed building|Grade II listed]] in 2015 by [[Historic England]].<ref name=HistoricEngland>{{NHLE|desc=The Stag's Head public house, Hoxton|num=1427212|access-date=30 August 2015}}</ref>

[[File:SouthShoreditch.JPG|thumb|right|South Shoreditch undergoing reconstruction in 2015]]
South Shoreditch has undergone an enormous transformation. Several five- or six-storey buildings have been knocked down in the area of Shoreditch that borders the City of London. In their place will be erected a variety of very tall buildings, mirroring the architectural styles in the City.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|title = Three More Shoreditch Skyscraper Proposals|url = http://londonist.com/2015/06/hipsterheights|website = Londonist| date=16 June 2015 |access-date = 11 December 2015}}</ref> The developments will result in more residential units being available for sale in Shoreditch than were produced by the [[East Village, London|Olympics athletes' village]].<ref name=":0" />

One landmark development is the [[Principal Tower]] in Worship Street, designed by the architects [[Foster and Partners]],<ref name=Buildington>Principal Tower, Worship Street, London EC2A 2BA: [http://www.buildington.co.uk/new_developments/london_ec2/worship_street/principal_tower/id/4314 New Developments - Principal Tower, Worship Street, London EC2A 2BA], accessdate: 29/08/2014</ref> and next to it is [[Principal Place]], also designed by Foster and Partners. In July 2014, it was reported that the internet retailer [[Amazon.com]] was close to signing a lease to move its UK headquarters there. The project had been on hold since January 2012, when the anchor tenant, the law firm [[CMS Cameron McKenna]] pulled out. Soon after, the developer [[Hammerson]] sold its interest in the scheme to [[Brookfield Office Properties|Brookfield]].<ref name=Building>Building: [http://www.building.co.uk/amazon-interest-could-revive-principal-place-tower/5069898.article Amazon interest could revive Principal Place tower | Online News | Building], accessdate: 29/08/2014</ref>

There has been some consideration of creating an interchange with the [[Central line (London Underground)|Central line]] between [[Liverpool Street station|Liverpool Street]] and [[Bethnal Green tube station|Bethnal Green]] at Shoreditch High Street, where the line runs almost underneath the station. However, this could not be seriously contemplated before the completion of the [[Crossrail]] project, owing to extreme crowding on the Central line during peak hours.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://brockleycentral.blogspot.com/2014/12/central-line-interchange-for-ell-could.html|title=Central Line interchange for ELL could come as part of new Shoreditch terminus|website=brockleycentral.Blogspot.com|access-date=13 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Hawkins|first1=John|title=Meeting Reports: The East London Line Extension|url=http://lurs.org.uk/documents/pdf09/sept/meeting_reports.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120916003307/http://lurs.org.uk/documents/pdf09/sept/meeting_reports.pdf |archive-date=2012-09-16 |url-status=live|website=London Underground Railway Society}}</ref>

London Overground began running 24-hour trains on Friday and Saturday nights between [[Dalston]] Junction and [[New Cross]] Gate which called at Shoreditch High Street from 15 December 2017.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Busby|first1=Mattha|title=London Overground goes 24-hour, joining night tube|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/15/london-overground-goes-24-hour-joining-night-tube|access-date=29 December 2017|work=The Guardian|date=15 December 2017}}</ref> but bypasses [[Whitechapel]] and continues on to [[Shadwell]] due to ongoing Crossrail construction work for  ([[Elizabeth line]]) until 2019.<ref name="LO 24hr">{{cite press release |title= London Overground to run a 24-hour service just like the Night Tube|url= http://metro.co.uk/2017/07/03/london-overground-to-run-a-24-hour-service-just-like-the-night-tube-6751064/|access-date=4 June 2017 |publisher= [[Metro (British newspaper)|Metro]]|date=3 June 2017}}</ref>

Two [[Huguenot]] workers' houses on Club Row on the corner of Redchurch Street, which developers had wished to knock down, were saved from demolition. They were deemed of special historic interest, giving the houses protection from destruction from 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/news/heritage/historic-england-list-two-homes-in-bethnal-green-1-6104101|title=Pair of 18th century Huguenot silk workers houses are saved from demolition|first=Rachael|last=Burford|website=East London Advertiser}}</ref>