Lace Market Renovation
The Lace Market has undergone a renaissance in recent years. Nearly all of the old warehouses that were once run down during the recession years have been cleaned and renovated and have found new uses such as luxury apartments, high-spec offices and academic buildings. The London PR Agency recently opened a Midlands office in the area and many high profile design agencies such as Distinction, Erskine Design and Attitude Design have also made the Lace Market their home.
Some streets in the Lace Market are now tourist attractions, such as the Galleries of Justice on Low Pavement. The Galleries are located in the old law courts and County Gaol (jail) - or County Goal as the stonemason accidentally inscribed it, a blunder still visible today above the entrance which ironically probably got the poor stonemason severely punished. There has been a court on the site since 1375, with the present Georgian building being used since 1780.
The Lace Market adjoins Hockley Village, and both areas now accommodate a variety of fashionable bars, restaurants and shops.
Some of the original 19th century lace machines are still in use today, often interfaced with computers. Tours of the area and some of the old buildings are available.
Read more about this topic: Lace Market
Famous quotes containing the words lace, market and/or renovation:
“Will you buy any tape,
Or lace for your cape,
My dainty duck, my dear-a?
Any silk, and thread,
And toys for your head,
Of the new’st and finest, finest wear-a?
Come to the pedlar;
Money’s a meddler,
That doth utter all men’s ware-a.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Ae market night,
Tam had got planted unco right,
Fast by an ingle, bleezing finely,
Wi’ reaming swats that drank divinely;”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)
“Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)