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Hounds Of Hackney Downs
JUST A FEW TICKETS LEFT FOR THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS ON SATURDAY 25th & SUNDAY 26th SEPTEMBER . In strict alphabetical order, here are the latest heroic hounds to achieve canine...
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The Fight For The Soul Of Spitalfields
. The bellman led the way as the campaign to SAVE BRICK LANE reached its climax on Sunday when protestors staged a mock funeral procession with speeches outside the Truman Brewery. Contributing...
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A Walk With Suresh Singh
JUST A FEW TICKETS LEFT FOR THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS ON SATURDAY 25th & SUNDAY 26th SEPTEMBER . We are proud to be the publishers of A MODEST LIVING, Memoirs of a Cockney Sikh,...
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Philip Cunningham At Oxford House
Photographer Philip Cunningham took these lively pictures while working as a youth leader at Oxford House in Bethnal Green in the seventies. They are now the subject of an exhibition entitled Youth of...
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Harold & Walter Steggles At Southend
If you are seeking an excuse for a day trip to Southend, I can think of no better reason than to visit the current exhibition of paintings by East London Group Artists Harold & Walter Steggles,...
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Dan Jones’ Portraits
In recent years, Dan Jones has painted a magnificent series of portraits from different eras for East End Tales by the Speed History Writers Group. Many of these are well known but others less...
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Remembering Jessica Strang
Contributing Writer Rosie Dastgir recalls her friend and neighbour in Whitechapel, the remarkable Jessica Strang, photographer & activist (1938–2021) Portrait by Mervyn Peake, 1959/60 I first met...
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Autumn In Spitalfields
A few tickets left for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S WALKING TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS on Sunday October 3rd at noon. Email spitalfieldslife@gmail.com to book. Map of the Gentle Author’s Tour drawn by Adam Dant ....
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Hairdressers Of The Eighties
I am delighted to publish these photos from A London Inheritance – written by a graduate of my blog course. A few places are available for my course HOW TO WRITE A BLOG THAT PEOPLE WILL WANT TO READ on...
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Max Levitas & The Battle Of Cable St
Today is the eighty-fifth anniversary of The Battle of Cable St. Here is my interview with the late Max Levitas remembering that day, accompanied by Phil Maxwell‘s pictures of the fiftieth anniversary...
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George Cruikshank’s Comic Alphabet
You might like to see other work by George Cruikshank Dick Turpin, Highwayman Jack Sheppard, Thief, Highwayman & Escapologist Tom & Jerry’s Life in London Joseph Grimaldi, Clown The Bloody...
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A Legal Challenge To Stop The Truman Brewery Shopping Mall
Photograph by Sarah Ainslie . We are seeking to overturn Tower Hamlets’ Council’s appalling decision to approve the Truman Brewery’s application to build a shopping mall with four floors of corporate...
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Last Chance To Save The Custom House
I am delighted to report that we have successfully raised the £5000 needed to employ a lawyer to investigate Tower Hamlets’ dodgy decision-making over the Truman Brewery Shopping Mall and seek grounds...
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At Gardners’ Bags
The new stockroom Paper bag seller Paul Gardner is a happy man these days. He has a new shop where he no longer has to pay rent and he is now free of the vile clutches of his greedy landlord in...
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In The Orchards Of Kent
Today is National Apple Day . Five years ago, when I first visited the National Collection of Fruit Trees at Brogdale outside Faversham in Kent to enjoy the spring blossom, I vowed to go back in the...
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Spitalfields City Farm Calendar
. “There is poetry in the unexpected presence of agriculture in the city and it always makes my heart leap to hear animal cries in this urban setting, connecting me to the rural landscape beyond and...
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At Newmans Stationery
Today we celebrate the wonderful Newmans Stationery in Bethnal Green who printed our Spitalfields Life 2022 calendar in support of Spitalfields City Farm . CLICK HERE TO ORDER YOUR SPITALFIELDS CITY...
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The Wallpaper Of Spitalfields
One house in Fournier St has wallpapers dating from 1690 until 1960. This oldest piece of wallpaper was already thirty years old when it was pasted onto the walls of the new house built by joiner...
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Philip Marriage’s Firework Labels
Philip Marriage sent me this glorious collection of firework labels. He said, “If these look as if they’ve been buried or blown up and burnt, it’s because they have!” “This box of Brock’s bangers was a...
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Celebrating The Stepney School Strike
A few places are available for my last-ever course HOW TO WRITE A BLOG THAT PEOPLE WILL WANT TO READ on November 20th & 21st. This is your final chance to come to Spitalfields and spend a weekend...
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