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On The Beat With PC Lew Tassell Again
We may not have quite hit our target, but we have raised an astonishing £32,033 to relaunch Spitalfields Life Books. Meanwhile, our crowdfund page will remain open until we reach £35,000. YOU CAN STILL...
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The Bread Cake & Biscuit Walk
We may not have quite hit our target, but we have raised an astonishing £32,1113 to relaunch Spitalfields Life Books. Meanwhile, our crowdfund page will remain open until we reach £35,000. YOU CAN...
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So Long, John Dolan
We are within £2,000 of our target after raised an astonishing £33,093 to relaunch Spitalfields Life Books. The crowdfund page remains open until we reach £35,000. YOU CAN STILL VISIT OUR CROWDFUND...
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The Oxford Sausage
We are getting very close to our target now after raised an astonishing £33,960 to relaunch Spitalfields Life Books. The crowdfund page remains open until we reach £35,000. YOU CAN STILL VISIT OUR...
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A London Inheritance
Thank you to our over 300 donors who contributed £35,000 to relaunch Spitalfields Life Books. We will be in touch with patrons, supporters and friends to arrange delivery of rewards in due course. I am...
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The Gentle Author’s Pub Crawl
Click here to book for my last Spitalfields tour of the year . . Feeling in need of exercise and refreshment, I set out on a walk to visit some favourite pubs along the way and I took my camera with...
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Save Liverpool St Station Event
. In the foreground of the developers’ visualisation, you can see how their nightmareish scheme for Liverpool St Station will look if built. Note the eleven storey tower block on top of the grade II*...
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Upon The Nature Of Gothic Horror
I believe I was born with a medieval imagination. It is the only way I can explain the explicit gothic terrors of my childhood. Even lying in my cradle, I recall observing the monstrous face that...
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Marie Lenclos’ Walk In Stoke Newington
Blue Gate . A Walk in Stoke Newington is an exhibition of new oil paintings by Marie Lenclos opening on Monday 6th November. Marie walked for days exploring the streets, enjoying the shortcuts and...
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Save Liverpool St Station
Please come to our SAVE LIVERPOOL ST STATION campaign event at 7pm tonight, Tuesday 7th November at Hanbury Hall, 22 Hanbury St, E1 6QR. Speakers include Griff Rhys Jones, Eric Reynolds and Robert...
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At The Eagle
. It was my great delight to come across this precious scrapbook of playbills from the Eagle Theatre & Pleasure Gardens in the City Rd at the Bishopsgate Institute. Old playbills have a charisma...
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At Chiswick House
. I decided to take advantage of the November sunshine by enjoying an excursion to Chiswick House. I have to confess that it is thirty years since I visited, in the footsteps of the writer Denton...
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On Remembrance Sunday
On Remembrance Sunday, we remember the eighty-three men whose names are commemorated upon the war memorial in the churchyard at Christ Church. Vicky Stewart researched their lives and designer Adam...
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Furniture Trade Cards Of Old London
Jonathan Pryce will read my short story ‘On Christmas Day’ at the launch at Burley Fisher Books in Haggerston on Thursday 23rd November at 6:30pm. . CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS . The Gentle Author picks up...
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Firefighter Artists Of The Blitz
Jonathan Pryce will read my short story ‘On Christmas Day’ at the launch at Burley Fisher Books in Haggerston on Thursday 23rd November at 6:30pm. CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS CLICK HERE TO ORDER A SIGNED...
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John Thomas Smith’s Rural Cottages
Jonathan Pryce will read my short story ‘On Christmas Day’ at the launch at Burley Fisher Books in Haggerston next Thursday 23rd November at 6:30pm. CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS CLICK HERE TO ORDER A SIGNED...
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Edward Bawden On Liverpool St Station
Jonathan Pryce will read my short story ‘On Christmas Day’ at the launch at Burley Fisher Books in Haggerston this Thursday 23rd November at 6:30pm. CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS CLICK HERE TO ORDER A SIGNED...
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Rodney Holt, Designer & Set Builder
Jonathan Pryce will read my short story ‘On Christmas Day’ at the launch at Burley Fisher Books in Haggerston this Thursday 23rd November at 6:30pm. CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS CLICK HERE TO ORDER A SIGNED...
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Morris Goldstein, The Lost Whitechapel Boy
Jonathan Pryce will read my short story ‘On Christmas Day’ at the launch at Burley Fisher Books in Haggerston this Thursday 23rd November at 6:30pm. CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS CLICK HERE TO ORDER A SIGNED...
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Thomas Onwhyn’s London
CLICK HERE TO ORDER A SIGNED COPY OF ‘ON CHRISTMAS DAY’ FOR £10 . . Born in Clerkenwell in 1813 as the eldest son of a bookseller, Thomas Onwhyn created a series of cheap mass-produced satirical...
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