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Doreen Fletcher’s Spitalfields Paintings
Click for tickets for The Gentle Author’s Tour of Spitalfields . . It is my delight to publish Doreen Fletcher‘s paintings of Spitalfields, Bethnal Green and beyond. These new pictures are to be seen...
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So Long, The Gallant
I am sorry to report that The Gallant sank after capsizing in a sudden violent storm early on Tuesday 21st May, twenty-two nautical miles north of the Bahamas island of Great Inagua with eight sailors...
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The Creeping Plague Of Ghastly Facadism
I am giving a free lecture based on my book THE CREEPING PLAGUE OF GHASTLY FACADISM at the Barbican Library on Tuesday 11th June at 6pm. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR TICKET An affront in Spitalfields As...
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Doreen Fletcher’s Early Paintings
Click for tickets for The Gentle Author’s Tour of Spitalfields In the week before the opening of Doreen Fletchers’s exhibition of new paintings, EAST, on Saturday 8th June at Townhouse, it is my...
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David Johnson’s Cafes
Click here to book your ticket for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS . Fredson’s Cafe, Alie St David Johnson took these magnificent photographs of cafes in Kodachrome around 1980, published here...
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Peri Parkes’ East End
Click here to book your ticket for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS . House in the East, 1980-81 It was through the artist Doreen Fletcher, who is celebrated for her paintings of the East End,...
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Margaret Rope’s East End Saints
Click here to book your ticket for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS . A familiar East End scene of 1933 – children playing cricket in the street and Nipper the dog joining in – yet it is...
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Postcards From Petticoat Lane
Next tickets for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS are available for Saturday 22nd June . Today I am sending you postcards from Petticoat Lane. Here are the eager crowds of a century ago,...
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At Fulham Palace
Next tickets for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS are available for Saturday 22nd June . You enter the park by the Thames and go through a gate in a high wall to find yourself in a beautiful...
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Moyra Peralta’s Portraits
Next tickets for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS are available for Saturday 22nd June . Remembering photographer Moyra Peralta (1936-2024) who died on 8th May aged eighty-eight Sylvia in...
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Joan Naylor Of Bellevue Place
Tickets are available for my walking tour on Saturday 29th June. Click here to book your ticket for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS . This is Joan Naylor, photographed in the garden of her...
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Paul Sandby’s Cries Of London, 1760
Click here to book your ticket for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS . I am giving an illustrated lecture about the CRIES OF LONDON as a prologue to Berio’s CRIES OF LONDON performed by the...
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Whistler In Limehouse & Wapping
Click here to book your ticket for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS . William Jones, Limeburner, Wapping High St American-born artist, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, was the first artist to...
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Hester Mallin, Artist
Click here to book your ticket for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS this Saturday . Langdale St leading to Cannon St Rd Like the princess in the tower, when I met her in the last year of her...
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Julius Mendes Price’s London Types
Click to book for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS . . It is my delight to show these examples of London Types, designed and written by the celebrated war artist Julius Mendes Price and issued...
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At Waterbeach
Tickets are available for my walking tour now Click here to book your ticket for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS . I set out to visit the intriguingly named Waterbeach and Landbeach in...
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More Trade Cards Of Old London
Click here to book THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR for Saturday . Today it is my pleasure to show this selection of old London trade cards discovered by searching down the back of a hypothetical sofa and...
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In Itchy Park With Jack London
Click here to book for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS . The churchyard of Christ Church, Spitalfields, was once known as “Itchy Park,” a nickname that may derive from the long-term...
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A Flight In A Tiger Moth
Click here to book for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS . . What better way could there be to enjoy a warm summer afternoon than taking a gentle spin in a 1939 Tiger Moth over Kent? I took off...
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Marion Elliott’s Latest Designs
Click here to book for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS this Saturday . Favourite printmaker & illustrator Marion Elliot sent me these wonderful new designs for tea towels, cards and zines...
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