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Heads, Bodies & Legs By Alice Pattullo
Alice Pattullo is launching her new book Heads, Bodies & Legs at Townhouse, 5 Fournier St, Spitalfields, tomorrow Saturday 16th April and readers are welcome to drop by between 2pm and 4:30pm....
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Drew Worthley’s Ode To Stepney
Stepney-born singer and songwriter Drew Worthley was inspired by the Spitalfields Life feature The Lost Squares of Stepney to write this elegiac Ode to Stepney which he will be performing as part of...
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From Ken Sequin’s Badge Collection
From hundreds of badges in his magnificent collection, Ken Sequin kindly selected those for me with a local connection – and they comprise an unexpected history of the East End. Button badges were...
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Tonight At Shoreditch Church
We gather at 7:30pm for a lively concert and party to celebrate the Spitalfields Trust’s SAVE NORTON FOLGATE campaign. The past twelve months have seen many joyous cultural events, including lectures...
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Relics Of Old St Paul’s At New St Paul’s
Fragments of Old St Paul’s stored in the triforium at New St Paul’s Sir Christopher Wren’s success at St Paul’s Cathedral is to have envisaged architecture of such absolute assurance that it is...
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The Bug Woman & A London Inheritance
With another of my Spitalfields Blog Courses coming up on May 14th & 15th, it is my pleasure to present recent work by two of my unashamedly favourite alumni – The Bug Woman and A London...
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Viscountess Boudica’s St George’s Day
Happy St George’s Day! I was a little surprised when the Viscountess Boudica summoned me over to Bethnal Green to show off her new St George’s Day outfit. Refashioned from a pair of old curtains, it...
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Day Of Reckoning For Norton Folgate
Readers are encouraged to attend the Judicial Review happening at 10:30am in Court 4 at the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand today which will decide the future of Norton Folgate. If the...
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Jeffrey Johnson’s Favourite Pubs
One day Jeffrey Johnson walked into the Bishopsgate Institute, deposited a stack of his splendid photographs with Archivist Stefan Dickers and left without another word. We can only conclude that these...
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Punch & Judy In Covent Garden
One of my favourite annual events in London is the Punch & Judy Festival which is always held on the second Sunday in May at the churchyard of St Paul’s Covent Garden. Here I have supplemented my...
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Microcosm Of London, 1809
Billingsgate Market (click on this plate or any of the others to enlarge and examine the details) In 1897, Charles Gosse, Archivist at the Bishopsgate Institute, was lucky enough to buy a handsome...
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An Audience With Viscountess Boudica
The Gentle Author interviews Viscountess Boudica, Trendsetter of Bethnal Green and one of the East End’s most cherished personalities, on 23rd May at 7pm Monday at The Society Club, 3 Cheshire St, E2...
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So Long, Angela Flanders
Today I publish Kate Griffin’s profile of Angela Flanders as a tribute to a celebrated perfumer who practised in the East End for thirty years and died on 26th April. Angela Flanders There is something...
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Watermen’s Stairs In Wapping
Wapping Old Stairs I need to keep reminding myself of the river. Rarely a week goes by without some purpose to go down there but, if no such reason occurs, I often take a walk simply to pay my...
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East End Cobblers
“When I left school at sixteen, I told the careers officer I didn’t want an office job, I wanted to do something creative, so he set up appointments for me with a shoe repairer and a watch repairer,”...
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The Gentle Author’s Verdict
Yesterday a dark cloud burst over the East End and enough tears fell from the sky to engulf Spitalfields, entirely coincidental with the Judge’s verdict at the High Court in favour of the Mayor of...
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Norton Folgate, The Fight Is On Again!
Hundreds joined hands to encircle Norton Folgate last summer At a meeting on Tuesday night, the Spitalfields Trust decided to go to the Court of Appeal to challenge the verdict delivered by Justice...
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Happy Days At The Queen’s Head
As regular readers will know, there is a campaign underway to Save The Queen’s Head in Limehouse, which was declared as an Asset of Community Value this spring. Supporters have until the end of August...
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Vanishing London
Four Swans, Bishopsgate, photographed by William Strudwick & demolished 1873 In 1906, F G Hilton Price, Vice President of the London Topographical Society opened his speech to the members at the...
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Garden Extracts
In celebration of the East End’s horticultural history and heritage, Townhouse Spitalfields, is staging ‘Garden Extracts,’ a series of events between May 21st & June 5th as part of the Chelsea...
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