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Inside The Model Of St Paul’s
Simon Carter, Keeper of Collections at St Paul’s In a hidden chamber within the roof of St Paul’s sits Christopher Wren’s 1:25 model of the cathedral, looking for all the world like the largest jelly...
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The Jungle On The Corner Of Princelet St
Today’s story is the first of seven features by Contributing Writer Delwar Hussain, commencing with this childhood memoir of growing up in Puma Court, Spitalfields, in the nineteen-nineties Simon...
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Return To Robin Hood Gardens
Today’s story is the sixth of seven features by Contributing Writer Delwar Hussain and the second in a series of three related stories exploring the fate of Robin Hood Gardens housing estate in Poplar...
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An Excursion To Tudeley
Today I publish an account of my last assignment with Photographer Colin O’Brien, who died last week, a day’s excursion with a coachload of East Enders picking blackcurrants in Kent organised by...
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Save The Royal Exchange Murals!
Alfred the Great repairing the walls of the City of London by Sir Frank Salisbury, 1912 The Foundation of St Paul’s School, 1509, by William F Yeames, 1905 Reconciliation of the Skinners &...
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Seventh Annual Report
Today, after publishing more than 2,600 posts and over 31,000 photographs in these pages, we arrive at the end of the seventh year of Spitalfields Life. Customarily I produce a celebratory annual...
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At Clapton Beauty Parlour
Celebrating the seventh anniversary of Spitalfields Life with a week of favourite posts from the past year Marcia Manning Marcia believes that Clapton Beauty Parlour, opened by her parents in 1930, is...
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Charles Keeping, Artist
Celebrating the seventh anniversary of Spitalfields Life with a week of favourite posts from the past year The illustrations of Charles Keeping (1924–1988) burned themselves into my consciousness as a...
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Doreen Fletcher, Artist
Celebrating the seventh anniversary of Spitalfields Life with a week of favourite posts from the past year Turner’s Rd, 1998 Doreen Fletcher - Looking back, I suppose I was very spoiled. From a young...
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From Old Bedlam To Liverpool St
Novelist & Historian of London Gillian Tindall takes over as guest author this week in celebration of the publication of her new book, A Tunnel Through Time, A New Route for an Old London Journey...
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Adam Dant’s Map Of Thames Shipwrecks
CLICK THIS MAP to enlarge it and explore Cartographer Extraordinaire Adam Dant’s Map of Shipwrecks in the Thames Estuary, which he calls THE MUSEUM OF THE DEEP. This vast chart will be displayed in a...
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Sweet Simple Old Place
Contributing Photographer Sarah Ainslie braved the rain at St Katharine’s Precinct in Limehouse yesterday to record the installation of the new mural by Robson Cezar, King of the Bottletops, entitled...
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The Gentle Author At RIBA
In Gracechurch St, City of London Next Wednesday 21st September at 8pm, I shall be presenting my photographs illustrating THE CREEPING PLAGUE OF GHASTLY FACADISM at the Royal Insititute of British...
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Christopher Brown At Townhouse
Albion by Christopher Brown Printmaker Christopher Brown‘s superlative linocuts feature in an exhibition entitled ALBION, A CELEBRATION IN PRINT by St Jude’s opening at Townhouse, 5 Fournier St,...
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Ghost Signs Of Bermondsey & Southwark
Sam Roberts of London Ghost Signs kindly took me on a tour of Bankside recently to visit some of the ghost signs there which whisper tales of Bermondsey & Southwark’s past to anyone who cares to...
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Misericords At St Katharine’s Chapel
Tutivillus the demon eavesdropping upon two women I spent yesterday morning on my knees in St Katharine’s Chapel in Limehouse, photographing these rare survivors of fourteenth century sculpture,...
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Five Buildings In Whitechapel
Photographer Louis Berk & writer Rachel Kolsky let me pick these five buildings that interest me from their new book WHITECHAPEL IN FIFTY BUILDINGS. (Click here to buy a copy for £12) 37 Stepney...
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Return To Sandwich
A year ago, I enjoyed a day trip to the ancient town of Sandwich and wrote a eulogy in these pages, outlining the wonders of the borough. Before long, an invitation to return was forthcoming from the...
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The C R Ashbee Lecture 2016
On Monday 24th October, The East End Preservation Society presents the C R ASHBEE MEMORIAL LECTURE 2016, delivered by Rowan Moore, Architecture Critic of the Observer, at Shoreditch Church, speaking...
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Tex Ajetunmobi, Photographer
Click here for details of Black History Month in Tower Hamlets this October Bandele Ajetunmobi – widely known as Tex – took photographs in the East End for almost half a century, starting in the late...
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