Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust
It originated in the Spitalfields area of London, although it also operates elsewhere in England and Wales.[1] The trust's founders include the architectural historians Mark Girouard and Colin Amery and the art historian and television presenter Dan Cruickshank.[2] The Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust was founded in 1977 to rescue the remaining Georgian houses in Spitalfields, London, which were threatened with demolition by the expansion of London's financial district.The trust's work was important in the preservation of the network of early 18th-century streets in the area.[3][4] The trust's work has been criticised as leading to the gentrification of Spitalfields, changing a working-class area into "a gentrified enclave for writers, historians and the like", who are "all predominantly white European".