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The Seasons Of The Year
Click here to book for my next City of London walk on 4th June . These weeks in May when all the leaves are coming out green and fresh comprise my favourite time of year, and for me it is the true...
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How Paddy Handscombe Met Dennis Severs
Click here to book for my Spitalfields walk next Saturday and beyond . Click here to book for my next City of London walk on 4th June . Dennis Severs dressed as a coachman in the seventies During...
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The Manifold Charms of Delftware
Click here to book for my Spitalfields walk next Saturday and beyond . Click here to book for my next City of London walk on 4th June . Today ceramicist Matilda Moreton reveals her passion for...
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The Fate Of The White Hart
Click here to book for my next City of London walk on 4th June . Click here to book for my Spitalfields walk tomorrow and beyond . If you are concerned about the proposed redevelopment of Liverpool St...
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Eva Frankfurther’s Drawings
Click here to book for my next City of London walk on 4th June . There is an unmistakeable melancholic beauty which characterises Eva Frankfurther‘s East End drawings made during her brief working...
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At The Bulmer Brick & Tile Company
Click here to book for my next City of London walk on 4th June . The kiln Brick Lane takes its name from the brick works that once filled Spitalfields and I always wondered how it was in those former...
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Sebastian Harding At Paul Pindar’s House
Click here to book for my tour of Spitalfields this Saturday and beyond . Click here to book for my next City of London walk on 4th June . Today, writer and model maker Sebastian Harding begins an...
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Masterplan For The Truman Brewery
Click here to book for my tour of Spitalfields this Saturday and beyond . Click here to book for my next City of London walk on 4th June . . For over three years, the battle for Brick Lane has been...
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At Taylor’s Buttons & Belts
Click here to book for my next City of London walk on 4th June . ‘Every button tells a story’ On the ground floor of the house where Charles Dickens grew up at 22 Cleveland St in Fitzrovia is a...
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The Trade Cards Of Old London
Meet me on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral and we will spend an afternoon walking eastward together through the square mile to explore the wonders and the wickedness of the ancient City of London....
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The First Hundred Penguin Books
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Antony Cairns’ Small Shops
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Mike Henbrey, Collector
Meet me this Sunday on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral and we will spend the afternoon walking eastward together through the square mile to explore the wonders and the wickedness of the ancient City...
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At Emery Walker’s House
. Click here to book your tour tickets . Kelmscott Press & Doves Press editions at Emery Walker’s House Typographer and Printer, Emery Walker and Designer and Poet, William Morris both lived in...
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Save JC Motors Of Haggerston
. Click here to book your tour tickets for next Saturday and beyond . Leonard Maloney Please support Leonard Maloney and his staff at JC Motors. Working from a railway arch in Haggerston, Len and his...
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Hackney Mosaic Project In Regent’s Park
. Click here to book your tour tickets for next Saturday and beyond . Creators of the mosaic, Lisa Werner, Jackie Ormond, Gallina Sheke, Robin Pritchard, Ken Edwards, Janice Desler, Katrina &...
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At R. Russell, Brushmakers
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The Night I Kissed Joan Littlewood
. Click here to book your tour tickets for this Saturday and beyond . This is what happens when you try to carry a ladder the wrong way down a narrow alley, as Roy Kinnear is discovering in this frame...
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Adverts From The Jewish East End
. Click here to book your tour tickets for this Saturday and beyond . Stefan Dickers, Archivist at Bishopsgate Institute showed me these adverts he found in an almanac from 1925 that originally came...
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James Boswell’s East End
. Click here to book your tour tickets for this Saturday and beyond . A few years ago, I visited a leafy North London suburb to meet Ruth Boswell – an elegant woman with an appealing sense of levity –...
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