Chrisp Street Market, Polar, Tower Hamlets, London. The market was designed by Frederick Gibberd, and built as part of the Festival of Britain in 195
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Chrisp Street Market, Polar, Tower Hamlets, London. The market was designed by Frederick Gibberd, and built as part of the Festival of Britain in 1951, and forms part of the eastern edge of the Lansbury Estate. It was the first purpose-built pedestrian shopping area in the UK. Since 1997 it has been in a conservation area. The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a London borough located in East London; it covers much of the traditional East End. It was formed in 1965 from the merger of the former metropolitan boroughs of Stepney, Poplar and Bethnal Green. A 2017 study found that Tower Hamlets has the highest rate of poverty, child poverty, unemployment, and pay inequality of any London borough, even though Canary Wharf financial district, home to the world or European headquarters of numerous major banks is in the borough.