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The High Days & Holidays Of Old London
On Bank Holiday Monday, let us to consider the high days & holidays of old London in the days before social distancing. Boys lining up at The Oval, c.1930 School is out. Work is out. All of London...
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Bethnal Green Mulberry At The High Court
The public hearing of our Judicial Review commences at the High Court at 2pm today, Wednesday 5th May. Proceedings will run until 4:30pm this afternoon and recommence tomorrow at 10:30am. Click this...
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My Source Of Inspiration In Lockdown
Fiona Atkins, curator of Town House Gallery in Fournier St, reveals a personal inspiration that she discovered during lockdown In common with many, I found this last lockdown the hardest. It was winter...
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Adam Dant’s Map Of The Parish Of St Martin-In-The-Fields
Click on Adam Dant’s new map to explore the parish of St Martin-In-The Fields . Adam Dant created this print to celebrate beating the bounds at St Martin-in-the- Fields on the three hundredth...
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At Wellington Buildings In Bow
No doubt you have seen them out of the corner of your eye, looming over Bow Rd tube station. Wellington Buildings, Cuthbert Arthur Bereton’s dignified Victorian housing blocks rise up like fairytale...
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Peta Bridle’s Riverside Sketchbook
Peta Bridle sent me this latest series of her drawings. “I made these sketches this spring. My drawings were all made on the spot and I was grateful for the bright dry weather which granted me...
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The Death Of The Whitechapel Bell Foundry
A story that began more than five centuries ago in Whitechapel ends today with the announcement of the Secretary of State’s decision to give the go ahead for the bell-themed boutique hotel, destroying...
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The Departure Of Arthur Beale
PLEASE NOTE: My HOW TO WRITE A BLOG THAT PEOPLE WILL WANT TO READ course sold out immediately, so in response to popular demand I am holding another in November on the weekend of 20th & 21st. Click...
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A Door In Cornhill
The Bronte sisters visit their publisher in Cornhill, 1848 An ancient thoroughfare with a mythic past, Cornhill takes its name from one of the three former hills of the City of London – an incline...
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The Battle For Brick Lane Exhibition
Dan Cruickshank shows his son the model of the Truman Brewery The Battle For Brick Lane exhibition that I curated for the Spitalfields Trust – as part of their campaign to stop the proposed Truman...
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Hope For The Whitechapel Bell Foundry
. It was a dark moment when I heard the news that the Planning Inspector who oversaw the Public Inquiry into the future of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry had made a judgement in favour of the boutique...
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Sebastian Harding’s Architectural Models
Part of Sebastian Harding’s model of the Truman Brewery Sebastian Harding’s model of the Truman Brewery is the centrepiece of the Battle for Brick Lane exhibition at Annetta Pedretti’s House, 25...
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Pamela Cilia, Truman’s Bottling Girl
The Battle for Brick Lane exhibition curated by The Gentle Author at Annetta Pedretti’s House, 25 Princelet St, E1 6QH, is open from noon until 6pm this Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th June, and every...
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The Save Brick Lane Protest
(Photo by Sarah Ainslie) Contributing Photographers Sarah Ainslie and David Hoffman were there to document the triumphant protest yesterday organised by Nijjor Manush, East End Preservation Society,...
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Raphael Samuel’s Farewell To Spitalfields
In 1988, the Bishopsgate Institute staged an exhibition entitled A Farewell to Spitalfields curated by John Shaw and Raphael Samuel, the distinguished historian of the East End. The purpose was to...
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Nicholas Borden’s Lockdown Paintings Exhibition
I am delighted to announce that, following the tremendous response to Nicholas Borden’s recent paintings on Spitalfields Life, these will now be exhibited in a one man show entitled, WISHFUL THINKING,...
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Tea With David Bowie
I am delighted to publish this memoir by Cherry Gilchrist who is an an alumnus of my HOW TO WRITE A BLOG THAT PEOPLE WILL WANT TO READ course. Follow Cherry’s Cache for more of her stories. There are...
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At Sutton House
I love to visit dark old houses on bright summer days. There is something delicious about stepping from the heat of the day into the cool of the interior, almost as if the transition from one...
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At Clive Murphy’s Flat
As a follow-up to Saturday’s tribute to Clive Murphy who died last week at eighty-five, here is my account of his now legendary flat in Brick Lane. Clive Murphy at his desk Writer Clive Murphy lived in...
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Simon Pettet’s Tiles At Dennis Severs’ House
I am delighted to announcement Dennis Severs’ House reopens on 29th July. Click here to book . Anyone who has ever visited Dennis Severs’ House will recognise this spectacular chimneypiece in the...
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