Web design for the markets around Spitalfields
Old Spitalfields Market, Petticoat Lane and the Old Truman Brewery are three places called 'the market' here, open on three different days, and a wrong guess finds you closed.
A Spitalfields website that names the market, the street and the day, for £49.99 a month.
- Website: £49.99/month
- Website design fee: £0 upfront
- Minimum term, then it is yours: 18 months
Illustration: Spitalfields marked on a map of Greater London, beside a listing card for a local business whose website PrimeStart looks after.
Old Spitalfields Market has traded on a licence granted by Charles I in 1638, from buildings put up between 1885 and 1893 known as the Horner Buildings, and it now runs seven days a week with a vintage market each Thursday. A few streets over, Petticoat Lane Market splits in two: Wentworth Street trades six days a week, while Middlesex Street - renamed from Petticoat Lane around 1830 to record the boundary with the City - opens on Sundays only and closes by about two. The Old Truman Brewery, once the largest brewery in the world before it closed in 1989, now carries more than 250 businesses across its eleven-acre site. Christ Church Spitalfields, built by Nicholas Hawksmoor between 1702 and 1714, and the Huguenot weavers' houses on Fournier, Wilkes and Princelet Streets sit among them, and the building at the Fournier Street corner has been a Huguenot chapel, a Methodist chapel, a synagogue and, since 1976, the Jamme Masjid. Three markets, three schedules, on ground this small: we design, build, host and manage a professional WordPress website for £49.99 a month that says which market, which street and which day, and we can work on your Google visibility once it is live.
Illustration: a customer in Spitalfields types “vintage market spitalfields” into a search engine. No position or result is implied.
A search for 'the market' near Old Spitalfields has three right answers, not one.
'Vintage market spitalfields', 'market petticoat lane', 'shop near me': each of these can mean a different market on a different day. Ongoing SEO is monthly work on three agreed searches like these.
Illustration of a local search results page for “vintage market spitalfields”: a map with pins and a short list of businesses, one of them labelled “your business”. The businesses and ratings are examples; no position is implied.
An illustration of the kind of local results SEO works towards. The businesses, ratings and positions shown are examples, not a ranking or a result for any particular business.
- 01“vintage market Spitalfields”
Typed by someone who wants Old Spitalfields Market's Thursday vintage stalls specifically, not the general market on any other day.
- 02“market Petticoat Lane”
Searched by someone deciding between Wentworth Street, open six days, and Middlesex Street, open Sundays only until about two under the Petticoat Lane name - the wrong guess means a wasted trip.
- 03“shop near me”
A near-me search from someone already standing among the Old Truman Brewery's more than 250 businesses, on a site where brewing stopped in 1989, choosing on the spot rather than walking further.
Examples only. The three searches are agreed with you around the work you want more of and what people around Spitalfields actually type. Nobody can promise a position, and we don't.
Two ways to start around Spitalfields' three markets.
A professional website, or that website with ongoing SEO from the start. Both start from the same problem: which market, which day.
£0 upfront website design fee
For traders and studios in Old Spitalfields Market, Petticoat Lane or the Old Truman Brewery who need a site that names the market and the day it's actually open.
- Professional managed WordPress website, generally up to 5 pages
- Built around your services, the areas you cover and how customers contact you
- Domain name, hosting, SSL, backups and updates handled for you
- Reasonable small changes, subject to fair use
- 18-month minimum, then the website is yours
Website included. The £49.99 is not added on top.
For businesses competing across the same few hundred metres of Old Spitalfields Market, Petticoat Lane and the Old Truman Brewery, where being found by the right search and understood to be open on the right day both matter.
- Everything in Website
- 3 agreed priority Google searches for your area
- Monthly optimisation and Google Business Profile work
- Clear monthly reporting on what was done
- 6-month SEO minimum; every month of it counts towards the Website term
The price is the same around Old Spitalfields Market as it is anywhere else in the UK. Not sure which fits? Talk to someone first or see the full pricing details.
Spitalfields
Old Spitalfields, Petticoat Lane and the Old Truman Brewery: three markets under one name.
Old Spitalfields Market began with a licence Charles I granted in 1638 for flesh, fowl and roots to be sold on Spittle Fields. The buildings standing today, the Grade II listed Horner Buildings, went up between 1885 and 1893; the wholesale fruit and vegetable trade moved out to Leyton in 1991, and what's there now trades seven days a week, with a vintage market on Thursdays and a vinyl fair on some Fridays.
Petticoat Lane Market is a different schedule again, split across two streets: Wentworth Street trades six days a week, while Middlesex Street - renamed from Petticoat Lane around 1830 to mark the boundary with the City of London - opens on Sundays only and closes by about two o'clock. The Old Truman Brewery, brewing since 1666 and once the largest brewery in the world before it closed in 1989, now holds more than 250 businesses across eleven acres. Christ Church Spitalfields, the Huguenot houses on Fournier, Wilkes and Princelet Streets, and the Jamme Masjid at the Fournier Street corner - a building that has been a Huguenot chapel, a Methodist chapel and a synagogue before it became a mosque in 1976 - sit around them.
'Meet me at the market' is genuinely ambiguous here, and it fails on exactly the wrong day: Old Spitalfields is open when Middlesex Street is shut, and Wentworth Street runs six days out of the market's seven. A website that names the actual market, the actual street and the days it trades removes that guess before a customer sets off.
- Old Spitalfields Market
- Petticoat Lane Market on Wentworth Street
- Petticoat Lane Market on Middlesex Street
- the Old Truman Brewery
- around Christ Church Spitalfields
- Fournier Street
If you trade in Old Spitalfields Market, on Wentworth Street, on Middlesex Street or in the Old Truman Brewery, the site names it specifically, along with the days it's actually open.
Spitalfields industries
Three markets, three trading patterns, one website that has to cover all of them.
A Thursday vintage stall, a Sunday-only stallholder on Middlesex Street and a studio in the old brewery all call this 'Spitalfields', and each needs the site to say which one it is.
Everything a Spitalfields business needs from its website, in one monthly plan.
Design, build, hosting, security and the ongoing technical work are all part of the same plan, so there is nothing to add on and nothing to remember to renew.
- Design
- Build
- Hosting
- SSL & security
- Backups
- Updates
- Enquiry forms
- Mobile-ready
- Ongoing management
- Support
Eighteen months, then the website is yours.
Old Spitalfields Market has traded under one licence or another since 1638. A website built to last the minimum term is modest by comparison, and once it's complete, it belongs to you outright.
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Month 1
We design and build it
Your first £49.99 is taken at signup. We build the website around your business and you approve it before anything is published.
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Months 1 to 18
We host, manage and support it
Hosting, security, backups, updates and reasonable small changes, while you make the monthly payments. 18 payments of £49.99, £899.82 in total.
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After month 18
The website is yours
Complete the minimum term and the payments due under it, and the website belongs to you. It was built for your business, and it stays with your business.
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Your choice
Stay, or move it
Stay with PrimeStart at £49.99 a month on a rolling basis with no new minimum term, or move the website to hosting of your own.
Moving the website elsewhere is subject to the third-party licences any website relies on, such as WordPress, plugins, fonts and stock photography. The full wording lives in the Website Subscription Terms.
Questions from Spitalfields businesses
Do you work with businesses in Spitalfields?
Why does it matter which market I say I'm in?
We're on Brick Lane, not one of the three markets. Is that the same page?
We already have a website we like. Can you just do the SEO?
What does a Spitalfields business website cost?
How does ongoing SEO work?
Is there a PrimeStart office near the markets?
Nearby
Also working with businesses across the rest of Tower Hamlets.
The same plans, the same price and the same standard of website across the three markets and the rest of Tower Hamlets.
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Ready for a Spitalfields website that names the market and the day?
A professional website for £49.99 a month, designed, built and looked after by PrimeStart, for the traders across Old Spitalfields Market, Petticoat Lane and the Old Truman Brewery, with ongoing SEO ready whenever you want more of the right customers finding you.
18-month Website minimum, £899.82 in total. First monthly payment at signup. Complete the term and the website is yours.
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