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George Cruikshank’s Punch & Judy
Mr Punch’s 360th Birthday is celebrated this Sunday at St Paul’s, Covent Garden, with a procession at 11am, a service with Mr Punch in the pulpit at noon, followed by maypole dancing and Punch &...
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How To Demolish A Listed Building
113 & 115 Redchurch St Do you imagine that a listed building is safe from demolition? Then you are wrong, because this is the fate of an important grade II listed 1735 weavers’ house at 113...
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At Fishmongers’ Hall
This palatial building of Portland stone tucked under the west side of the foot of London Bridge is Fishmongers’ Hall. Many a time I have passed by on an errand to the Borough to buy fresh fish and...
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At St Augustine’s Tower
St Augustine’s Tower I wonder how many people even notice this old tower, secreted behind the betting office in the centre of Hackney? Without a second glance, it might easily get dismissed as a...
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Harry Thomas, Baker & Musician
Bookings for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOURS are now open for June & July The recipe is old but the cakes are fresh This is Harry Thomas, baker at Townhouse, who makes all the cakes for our walking...
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The Crossrail Drillers
Bookings for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOURS are now open for June & July The Elizabeth Line opens today and it will change the capital in ways that we cannot yet imagine. Here is my account of how it...
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Gillian Tindall On The Elizabeth Line
Bookings for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOURS are now open for June & July Novelist & Historian of London Gillian Tindall, author of A Tunnel Through Time, A New Route for an Old London Journey,...
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From Old Bedlam To Liverpool St
Bookings for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOURS are now open for June & July Liverpool St Station Novelist & Historian Gillian Tindall, author of A Tunnel Through Time, A New Route for an Old London...
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Where The White Chapel Once Stood
Bookings for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOURS are now open for June & July Altab Ali Park, Whitechapel Novelist & Historian Gillian Tindall, author of A Tunnel Through Time, A New Route for an Old...
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Stepney’s Lost Mansions
Bookings for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOURS are now open for June & July Novelist & Historian Gillian Tindall, author of A Tunnel Through Time, A New Route for an Old London Journey, introduces the...
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Royal Jubilee Bells
Some tickets are available for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR on 11th & 12th June If you should pass by St James Garlickhythe on a Thursday when the bellringers are practising between six-thirty and...
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DC Lew Tassell At The Silver Jubilee
Some tickets are available for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR on 11th & 12th June A time-travelling adventure escorted by our old friend Detective Constable Lew Tassell of the Fraud Squad, thanks to his...
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Carters Steam Fair For Sale
Bookings are open for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR until the end of July Learning the sad news that 2022 is to be the final season for Carters Steam Fair led me to recall when photographer Colin O’Brien...
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At Mavis Bullwinkle’s Birthday Party
Click here to book THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOURS for June & July Mavis at Dennis Severs’ House The Spitalfields Trust hosted a ninetieth birthday party for Mavis Bullwinkle in the Drawing Room at...
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Battle For Brick Lane, 1978
Click here to book THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOURS for June & July The march behind Altab Ali’s coffin from Whitechapel to Hyde Park, 14th May 1978 A new exhibition opens tomorrow of Paul Trevor‘s...
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Midsummer Bloomsbury Jamboree
. . In gleeful collaboration with my fellow publishers Tim Mainstone of Mainstone Press and Joe Pearson of Design for Today, I am hosting the MIDSUMMER BLOOMSBURY JAMBOREE, a one-day festival of books...
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Midsummer Bloomsbury Jamboree Lectures
Some tickets are available for The Gentle Author’s Tour this weekend, 18th & 19th June . Meanwhile, it is my pleasure to announce the programme of Bloomsbury Jamboree lectures on Sunday 26th June,...
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Doreen Fletcher’s New Paintings
Some tickets are available for The Gentle Author’s Tour this weekend, 18th & 19th June Meanwhile, Doreen Fletcher‘s new exhibition, TRACES opens at Townhouse, Spitalfields, this Saturday 18th June...
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At Eastbury Manor
Some tickets are available for The Gentle Author’s Tour this weekend, 18th & 19th June If you are seeking an afternoon’s excursion from the East End, you can do no better than visit Eastbury Manor...
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Grayson Perry’s End Of Covid Bell
Book now for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS Installation at the Royal Academy The Royal Academy Summer Show opens today which features the public debut of Grayson Perry’s ‘End of Covid Bell’...
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