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On Facadism
This was commissioned by The Architectural Review and is available in print in the current issue Precast ‘brick’ panels arrive for the Fruit & Wool Exchange development As if I were being poked...
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The Old Gates Of London
Today I present these handsome Players Cigarette Cards from the Celebrated Gateways series published in 1907. As we contemplate the going-out of the old year and the coming-in of the new, they give me...
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At Margolis Silver
Kudret Yirtici, Polisher There are still traditional manufacturing industries thriving in the East End – as Contributing Photographer Sarah Ainslie & I were delighted to discover when we visited...
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The Gentle Author At Bishopsgate Institute
Bishopsgate Institute For anyone who missed my lectures on the subject of EAST END VERNACULAR, Artists who painted London’s East End streets in the 20th century last year, you have a chance to catch...
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Hester Mallin, Artist & Autodidact Polymath
Since the publication of East End Vernacular, Artists who painted London’s East End streets in the 20th century, several notable artists whose work has never been seen have been brought to my...
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East End Vernacular At Abbott & Holder
. It is my great pleasure to curate a room of paintings from my book EAST END VERNACULAR, Artists who painted London’s East End streets in the 20th century, alongside a room of previously un-exhibited...
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Henry Silk At Abbott & Holder
Join me for the opening of Henry Silk & East End Vernacular at 6pm next Thursday 18th January at Abbott & Holder in Museum St, Bloomsbury, to view a room of watercolours from the thirties by...
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John Gillman’s Bus Tickets
John Gillman, 1964 Look at this bright young lad in his snazzy red blazer with his hair so neatly combed, how he radiates intelligence and initiative – trust him to come up with a smart idea, like...
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So Long, Dorothy Rendell
I feel touched and privileged to have been given the eleventh hour opportunity last year to interview Artist Dorothy Rendell who died yesterday. It is a matter of regret that she did not receive the...
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Thomas Onwyn’s London
Born in Clerkenwell in 1813, as the eldest son of a bookseller, Thomas Onwhyn created a series of cheap mass-produced satirical prints illustrating the comedy of everyday life for publishers Rock...
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The Wonders Of St Michael & All Angels
Such is the overwhelming collection of unlikely paraphernalia that you encounter when you visit St Michael & All Angel’s in Shoreditch, it is as if you have walked into the mansion of Charles...
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The Battle Of Tolmers Square
On Monday 5th February at 7:30pm, veteran housing activist Nick Wates will be giving a talk at Leila’s Cafe introduced by Will Palin and hosted by the EAST END PRESERVATION SOCIETY, about his seminal...
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A Reply From Crest Nicholson
Ten days ago, I wrote to Crest Nicholson regarding their use without permission of my photograph of the Bethnal Green Mulberry in their leaflets and exhibition for their proposed London Chest Hospital...
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Eva Frankfurther, Artist
There is an unmistakeable melancholic beauty which characterises Eva Frankfurther‘s East End drawings made during her brief working career in the nineteen-fifties. Born into a cultured Jewish family...
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At The Ragged School Museum
The Ragged School Museum in Bow is a long tall building occupying the narrowest triangular site between the canal and the road – as thin as a meagre slice of cake. In 1876, Dr Thomas Barnardo...
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Celebrating East End Suffragettes
Celebrating the centenary of Women’s Suffrage, we present Researcher Vicky Stewart & Designer Adam Tuck‘s map of some key events in the struggle in Bethnal Green, Roman Rd & Bow Click to...
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At Goldsmiths’ Hall
The Leopard is the symbol of the Goldsmiths’ Company Whenever I walk through the City to St Paul’s, I always marvel at the great blocks of stone which form the plinth of this building on the corner of...
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East End Vernacular In Bethnal Green
Salmon & Ball, Bethnal Green, by Albert Turpin c.1955 I am delighted to collaborate with V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green to present an event on Thursday 22nd February which explores...
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London Salt-Glazed Stoneware
As one who thought nobody else shared my passion for old salt-glazed stoneware, I was overjoyed when Philip Mernick granted me the opportunity to photograph these fine examples from his vast and...
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Cecil Osborne’s Lost Murals Rediscovered
Today I can reveal the three lost panels by East End artist Cecil Osborne (1909-96) which once hung in St Pancras Town Hall in Euston Rd and have recently been rediscovered. Now the owner is seeking a...
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