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Christmas At St Hilda’s, 1975
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Viscountess Boudica’s Christmas
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Fritz Wegner’s Christmas Plates
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At Pellicci’s Christmas Party
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The Gentle Author’s Christmas
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Boxing Day Book Sale
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The Gentle Author’s Pantomime Season
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Amy Merrick At Dennis Severs’ House
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The Gates Of Old 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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Charles Keeping, Illustrator
The illustrations of Charles Keeping (1924–1988) burned themselves into my consciousness as a child and I have loved his work ever since. A major figure in British publishing in the last century,...
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Happy Families
On Twelfth Night, when we celebrate the Feast of Misrule on the last day of Christmas and all the decorations come down, I dug out these gleefully grotesque picture cards from an old parlour game to...
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East Entertainers of 1922
To cheer us all up at the end of the holiday season, I consulted the Concert Artistes Directory of 1922 in the Bishopsgate Institute to see what local talent was on offer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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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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Charles Dickens’ Inkwell
Five Christmases ago, I received the most extraordinary present I ever expect to receive. It is Charles Dickens’ inkwell. In the week before Christmas, I paid a seasonal visit to photographer &...
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Keren McConnell’s Orange Wrappers
This is the season for oranges and lemons, so I was more than delighted when Keren McConnell kindly sent me her glorious fruit wrapper collection from the seventies to share with you. If any other...
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Ron McCormick At Southend
In these melancholy January days of rain and chills, let us recall the happy days of high summer and day trips to Southend as evoked by Ron McCormick’s photographs of half a century ago, selected from...
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The Juvenile Almanack
On this frosty day in mid-January, I thought this might be a good moment to look forward through the year with this almanac from the eighteen-twenties, published by Hodgson & Co, 10 Newgate St. I...
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My Last Spitalfields Nippers Lecture
Back in 2014, Spitalfields Life Books published Horace Warner’s SPITALFIELDS NIPPERS. Now there are only a few copies left and I am giving my final lecture on this subject at 6pm on Tuesday 7th...
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The 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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At The Oldest Ceremony In The World
On these dark and frosty nights, I often think of the yeoman warders at the Tower of London pursuing their lonely vigils Each night a lone figure in a long red coat walks down Water Lane, the narrow...
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