On 1 Dec 1851 Charles John Blake, aged 21, married Mary Ann Ingleton who was a year older. They both gave their address as Church Street which later became Bethnal Green Road and was just a few hundred yards from Cheshire St. Mary Ann Ingleton was one of at least eight children born to James Ingleton (b1777, Bethnal Green), a cooper, and his wife Mary Ann Hartwell (b 1791). The witness William Ingleton was Mary Ann Ingleton’s younger brother. I don’t know who the other witness, Elizabeth Blake was. There are rather a lot of women named Elizabeth Blake in the area at the time of the 1851 Census. Bethnal Green Road Market on the road of the same name, founded in the 18th century, grew and grew and became more full with stalls. By 1959 stalls were choking the streets and the council attempted to relocate the market but had no success. In 1986 there had been many shop closures but the stalls were still trading. The street market is now recognised as a major local shopping area. In the 18th Century the silk-weaving trade spread eastwards from Spitalfields to Bethnal Green. This attracted many Huguenot and Irish weavers to the district. Large estates of small two-storey cottages were developed in the west of the area to house them. A downturn in the trade in 1769 led to the Spitalfield Riots when the weavers organised to attempt to ensure that the rates of pay paid for their piece work was not cut beneath the level at which they could feed themselves and their families. In the 19th century, Bethnal Green remained characterised by its market gardens and by weaving. Having been an area of large houses and gardens as late as the 18th century, by about 1860 Bethnal Green was mainly full of tumbledown old buildings with many families living in each house. By the end of the century, Bethnal Green was one of the poorest slums in London. Jack the Ripper operated at the western end of Bethnal Green and in neighbouring Whitechapel. The Regent's Canal opened in 1820, for horse-drawn canal barges to carry cargo between the London Docklands and the Grand Union Canal. These supplied local coal merchants and gas houses/plants (gasifiers) built along its banks including Bethnal Green. Bethnal Green Junction and Cambridge Heath railway stations are on the London Overground. Both were opened by the Great Eastern Railway (GER) on the Lea Valley Lines in 1872 as part of a more direct route to Enfield Town. The GER opened further Fast Lines that allow longer-distance trains to bypass these. Bethnal Green was also formerly served by trains on the Great Eastern Main Line (GEML) via Stratford.