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Harry T. Harmer, Artist
Today I present another extract from my new book EAST END VERNACULAR, Artists who painted London’s East End streets in the 20th century to be published by Spitalfields Life Books in October. Click here...
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Harold & Walter Steggles, Artists
Today I present another extract from my new book EAST END VERNACULAR, Artists who painted London’s East End streets in the 20th century to be published by Spitalfields Life Books in October. Click here...
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Lawrence Gowing In Mare St
Today I present another extract from my new book EAST END VERNACULAR, Artists who painted London’s East End streets in the 20th century to be published by Spitalfields Life Books in October. Click here...
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Dorothy Bishop in Bethnal Green
Today I present another extract from my new book EAST END VERNACULAR, Artists who painted London’s East End streets in the 20th century to be published by Spitalfields Life Books in October. Click here...
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Charles Ginner In Bethnal Green
In today’s extract from my forthcoming book EAST END VERNACULAR, Artists who painted London’s East End streets in the 20th century I need your help to identify the exact location of this painting in...
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Nathaniel Kornbluth, Artist
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S. R. Badmin In Wapping
Today I present another extract from my new book EAST END VERNACULAR, Artists who painted London’s East End streets in the 20th century to be published by Spitalfields Life Books in October. Click here...
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At William Gee Ltd
Speaking as a lifelong connoisseur of quality haberdashery, let me say that if you are in need of a button or a reel of thread, there is no finer place to go than William Gee Ltd at 520 Kingsland Rd....
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At David Kira Ltd
To anyone that knows Spitalfields, David Kira Ltd is a familiar landmark at 1 Fournier St next to The Ten Bells. Here, at the premises of the market’s foremost banana merchant – even though the...
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At Empress Coaches
Peter Stanton One of the corners of the East End that intrigues me most is at the boundary of Bethnal Green and Hackney, where a narrow path bordered by crumbling old brick walls leads up from the...
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James McNeill Whistler In The East End
Writing my new book EAST END VERNACULAR, Artists who painted London’s East End streets in the 20th century to be published by Spitalfields Life Books in October, has brought me to a new appreciation...
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Ed Gray, Artist
This is Ed Gray sitting in his studio in Mile End, beside the canal and next to the Ragged School Museum, where I visited him last week. I found him in a large empty room with windows overlooking...
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Eighth Annual Report
Eight years and three thousand stories ago, I published my first post in these pages. What a journey it has been and what sights we have witnessed. Already, I am approaching a third of the way towards...
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At Chu’s Garage, London Fields
Celebrating the eighth birthday of Spitalfields Life with a week of favourite posts from the past year Quang Chu of Chu’s Garage Chu’s Garage under the railway arches in London Fields has become a...
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A Walk Along The White Cliffs
At this season, The Gentle Author always enjoys an annual late summer holiday beyond Spitalfields in the form of a day trip to the sea and this year’s excursion was a walk from Deal to Dover The White...
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A.S. Jasper At The Museum Of Childhood
We are delighted to be collaborating with the V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green to stage a celebration on Thursday 14th September at 6:30pm of our publication of A HOXTON CHILDHOOD. In our...
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Alice Pattullo’s Household Lore
Illustrator Alice Pattullo sent me these screenprints she has been working on recently. “They were inspired by my ongoing fascination with superstitions, old wives tales and nonsensical rhymes,” Alice...
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Patrick Baty’s East End Projects
Upon the publication of his definitive work, The Anatomy of Colour, Patrick Baty, acknowledged authority on historical paint, pigments and papers looks back on cherished East End projects The bandstand...
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William Morris In The East End
If you spotted someone hauling an old wooden Spitalfields Market orange crate around the East End last week, that was me undertaking a pilgrimage to some of the places William Morris spoke in the hope...
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James Leman, Silk Designer
The oldest surviving set of silk designs in the world, James Leman’s album contains ninety ravishingly beautiful and accomplished patterns created in Steward St, Spitalfields between 1705 and 1710...
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