View of three-storey buildings with attics and commercial premises at the ground floor, in Wheler Street, latterly Drant Street, Spitalfields, in the former Metropolitan Borough of Stepney. Looking south towards shops and gabled roofs with dormers of buildings in Lamb Street, and Spitalfields fruit and vegetable market. The premises of W. Whitehouse, fruit salesman, is in the foreground with bushel baskets, one with the star of David and initials painted on the side, stacked up in the road in front and on a horse-drawn wooden cart, together with stacks of wooden boxes. A shop further along has a sign outside advertising 'British Oak shag' tobacco. The end of the street is busy with tradesmen, some with hand carts, next to sacks, carts and fruit boxes. The right-hand pavement is lined with cast-iron bollards, where a man dressed in a short jacket, knickerbockers, and a flat cap is standing on the corner with Chapel Street. Also visible is a poster, possibly advertising a production showing at one of the London theatres. The buildings were demolished and replaced by the Flower Market, built c1935 by the Corporation of London. Spitalfields market operated until 1991, but local congestion necessitated it's relocation to Leyton thereby ending over 300 years of trading in fruit and vegetables on the site. The site of the flower market has since been redeveloped with flats and landscaping.