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Christmas With Dennis Severs
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Christmas At The Salvation Army
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Spitalfields Market Parties Of Yesteryear
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Old Christmas Baubles
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So Long, Old Town
Click here to book tickets for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS on New Year’s Day. . Francis in the role of Newsvendor. Favourite clothing company, OLD TOWN, run by Marie Willey and Will Brown...
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The Gates Of The City
Click here to learn more . On this first day of the year let us contemplate those places of going out and coming in, specifically the old gates of the City of London. Discovering the sixteenth century...
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Cherry Gilchrist On Cheshire St
I am proud to publish this edited extract from CHERRY’S CACHE by Cherry Gilchrist, a graduate of my writing course. The author ran Tigerlily, a vintage clothes shop in Cambridge for seven years in...
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On Twelfth Night
. I am proud to publish this entry from THE SILVER LOCKET by a graduate of my writing course. The author sets out to share stories of literary life: books old and new which inspire and comfort, and...
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Panto Time!
. Longer ago than I care to admit, fortune led me to an old theatre in the Highlands of Scotland. Only now am I able to reveal some of my experiences there and you will appreciate that discretion...
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So Long, David Power
I am sorry to report the death of David Power on 15th December at the age of ninety David Power 1934-2024 David Power lived in a comfortable Peabody flat round the back of the London Coliseum and, with...
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David Power In Spitalfields
Continuing my tribute to David Power who died on 15th December aged ninety, here is my account of a return visit he made to Spitalfields where he grew up. David Power at The Golden Heart where he...
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T. Venables & Sons’ Almanack
In case you do not have an almanack yet for the new year, I am publishing this from T. Venables & Sons, Whitechapel, courtesy of Philip Mernick. This is an especially useful one because it includes...
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Orange Wrappers
This is the season for oranges and lemons, when every morning I begin the day by consuming a juicy blood orange. So I was more than delighted when Keren McConnell kindly sent me her glorious fruit...
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In Old Globetown
I took advantage of rare hours of January sunlight to take a stroll over to Globetown. You walk east from Museum Gardens in Bethnal Green through Sugar Loaf Walk and immediately recognise you have...
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At The Golden Heart
Photographer Phil Maxwell knows that the centre of the universe in Spitalfields is The Golden Heart on the corner of Hanbury St and Commercial St where publican Sandra Esqulant, hula-hoop champion and...
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At The Mansion House
Contributing Photographer Rachel Ferriman & I were granted the privilege of a visit to the Mansion House designed by George Dance the Elder (1739) in the City of London. I use the word privilege...
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Art, Documentary & Resistance In The Thirties
These photographs are selected from the exhibition NOW FILMING: Art, Documentary & Resistance in 1930s East London which explores the work of the Workers’ Film & Photo League, who employed the...
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So Long, Terry’s Tropicals
After three generations and more than sixty years of service to the East End’s ichthyophiles and aquarists, Terry’s Tropicals closes forever this Sunday What better refuge from the hurly-burly of the...
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Along The Regent’s Canal
Taking advantage of a rare day of January sunshine, I enjoyed a ramble along the towpath with my camera, tracing its arc which bounds the northern extent of the East End. At first there was just me,...
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Along The Regent’s Canal From Shoreditch To Paddington
The towpath fiddler in Camden I continued my ramble along the towpath of the Regent’s Canal as far as Paddington Basin in the frost, picking up my journey where I cast off in Shoreditch. Swathed in...
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