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The Renewal Of Dennis Severs’ House
Dennis Severs’ House in Spitalfields has been closed for the past year but, behind the scenes, a small army has been working to renew the house for reopening this week. Lucinda Douglas Menzies did...
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Ed Gray, Painter
This is Ed Gray sitting in his studio in Mile End, beside the canal and next to the Ragged School Museum. I found him in a large empty room with windows overlooking Mile End stadium and just three...
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John Minton’s East End
Martin Salisbury author of The Snail that climbed the Eiffel Tower, a monograph of John Minton’s graphic work, explores Minton’s fascination with the East End. Never quite accepted by the establishment...
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Victoria Park Model Steam Boat Club
Spitalfields Life contributing photographer, Lucinda Douglas-Menzies became fascinated by the Victoria Park Model Steam Boat Club while out walking in the park. Over successive Sundays, her interest...
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A Tourist In Whitechapel
Let us search the recesses of our memories to recall those distant days when London was frequented by tourists from overseas. I discovered this comic pamphlet of 1859 in the Bishopsgate Institute which...
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Harry The Pencil’s Clerkenwell Sketch Book
When I was visiting Harry The Pencil – also known as Harry Harrison – in Mile End, he showed me this modest little sketchbook that he filled when he was working in Great Sutton St, Clerkenwell,...
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Where Handel & Hendrix Were Neighbours
Jimi Hendrix’ bedroom in Brook St Did you know that George Frideric Handel once lived at 25 Brook St in Mayfair and James Marshall (Jimi) Hendrix lived next door at number 23? – thus rendering it...
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Gustave Doré’s East End
Gustave Doré signed a contract to spend three months in London each year for five years and the completed book of one hundred and eighty engravings with text by Blanchard Jerrold was published in 1872,...
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Music Hall Artistes Of Abney Park Cemetery
In summer, I often seek refuge in the green shade of a cemetery. Commonly, I visit Bow Cemetery and recently I visited Highgate Cemetery but sometimes I explore Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington...
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Summer At Spitalfields City Farm
The third of four features in collaboration with Contributing Photographer Rachel Ferriman, documenting the seasons of the year at Spitalfields City Farm Despite the cold spring, this has been a good...
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Liam O’Farrell’s Markets
As you can see, Artist Liam O’Farrell loves markets of all kinds – old and new, large and small – so it is my pleasure to publish this gallery of his watercolour paintings celebrating this essential...
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My Quilt
While the Gentle Author takes a holiday, we are celebrating the joys of the season with a HARVEST SALE, selling all our books at half price so you can treat yourself and your friends and family. Simply...
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Tree Huts Of Epping Forest
While the Gentle Author takes a holiday, we are celebrating the joys of the season with a HARVEST SALE, selling all our books at half price so you can treat yourself and your friends and family. Simply...
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A Walk Along The Ridgeway
While the Gentle Author takes a holiday, we are celebrating the joys of the season with a HARVEST SALE, selling all our books at half price so you can treat yourself and your friends and family. Simply...
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At Walton On the Naze
CLICK TO DISCOVER THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS . . All this time, Walton on the Naze has been awaiting me, nestling like a forgotten jewel cast up on the Essex coast, and less than an hour...
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At Gravesend
CLICK TO DISCOVER THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS . There is an undeniable romance about arriving by boat at a place you have never been before. This was how I arrived at Gravesend....
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At Herne Bay
CLICK TO DISCOVER THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS . Reculver Towers Several years ago, I grew fascinated with a ruin upon the seashore in the background of a photograph of members of the...
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At Sandwich
CLICK TO DISCOVER THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS . “There’s always something going on in Sandwich,” I was reliably informed by the guide who welcomed me to an old stone church, and the...
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Save Brick Lane!
Photo © David Hoffman . Despite 7,476 objections and only 82 letters of support, next Tuesday 14th September, Tower Hamlets Council’s Development Committee appears set upon approving the Truman...
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A Walk On The White Cliffs
This is the last day of the Gentle Author’s holiday, so you only have until midnight to take advantage of our HARVEST SALE, selling all our books at half price. Simply add code ‘HARVEST’ at checkout to...
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