From the Illustrated London News, May 1, 1869, page 440
According to A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 11, Stepney, Bethnal Green: In 1864 Henry Darbishire (who became an architect for the Peabody Trust) began the magnificent Columbia Market buildings in the style of a French Gothic cathedral. Opened in 1869, they included dwellings for shopkeepers.
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