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The Juvenile Almanack
CLICK HERE TO BOOK On this last day of January, I thought this might be a good moment to look forward to what the year has in store with this almanack from the eighteen-twenties, published by Hodgson...
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Ten Years Of Novelty Automation
This week, Tim Hunkin’s Novelty Automation celebrates ten years in Bloomsbury, attaining the status of a popular London institution. Yet when I visited before it opened a decade ago even Tim had no...
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Before & After In Fournier St
1995, the sweatshop 2005, the music room Ten years of renovation lies between these two photographs of the same room in Fournier St – between this snap of the abandoned sweatshop that John Nicolson...
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David O’Mara’s Spitalfields
I have published many pictures of renovations of old houses in Spitalfields over the years but David O’Mara‘s candid photography reveals the other side of these stories, recording the back-breaking...
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Ebbe Sadolin’s London ii
CLICK HERE TO BOOK Danish Illustrator Ebbe Sadolin (1900-82) visited London in the years following the War to capture the character of the capital, just recovering from the Blitz, in a series of...
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Love Tokens From The Thames
CLICK HERE TO BOOK With St Valentine’s Day looming at the end of the week, I thought this would be a good moment to publish this collection of lovers’ tokens from the Thames gathered over the past...
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Walter Donohue’s Screenwriting Course
Walter Donohue by Sarah Ainslie We are delighted to announce that script editor, producer and luminary of the British cinema, Walter Donohue has agreed to teach a two-day screenwriting course at...
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Viscountess Boudica’s Valentine’s Day
CLICK HERE TO BOOK On Valentine’s Day, I cannot help thinking back to the days when we had Viscountess Boudica of Bethnal Green to make the East End a more colourful place, before she was ‘socially...
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The Spitalfields Nobody Knows
CLICK HERE TO BOOK Conceived in homage to Geoffrey Fletcher and “The London Nobody Knows,” artist Joanna Moore introduces you to lesser-known corners of Spitalfields. (You can click on these...
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In Celebration Of Cockney Yiddish
In The Cockney Yiddish Podcast, launching today, Professor Nadia Valman, professor of urban literature and Dr Vivi Lachs, performer, researcher & translator of Yiddish culture, explore the unknown...
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The Degradation Of The Whitechapel Bell Foundry
The Whitechapel Bell Foundry, shuttered since 2017 November 2022 March 2023 July 2023 February 2024 These photos record the ongoing degradation, decay, disregard and disrespect of the world’s most...
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Cecil Osborne’s Murals At Camden Town Hall
In 2018 I met Dr Kaori O’Connor who rescued these paintings by East End artist Cecil Osborne (1909-96) and she asked me to help her get them reinstated in Camden Town Hall. The attention that...
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Peta Bridle’s Shops
CLICK HERE TO BOOK . In her latest series of drawings done on location, Peta Bridle has cast her attention upon shops. Her exhibition DRAWN TO LONDON opens this Wednesday 26th February and runs until...
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In The Roof Of St Paul’s Cathedral
CLICK HERE TO BOOK On the right of this photograph, taken in the roof of St Paul’s Cathedral, is the concave wall of the outer dome and curving away to the left is the convex wall of the painted inner...
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Inside The Model Of St Paul’s
Click here to book for my tours through March, April and May . Simon Carter, Keeper of Collections at St Paul’s In a hidden chamber within the roof of St Paul’s sits Christopher Wren’s 1:25 model of...
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Postcards From Petticoat Lane
Click here to book for my tours through March, April and May . Today I am sending you postcards from Petticoat Lane. Here are the eager crowds of a century ago, surging down Middlesex St and through...
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Tower Hamlets Adverts 1967
Last call for Walter Donohue’s Screenwriting Course on 5th & 6th April. We have just three places left. Click here for further information. Walter Donohue, Jeanne Moreau and Wim Wenders filming...
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Dicky Lumskull’s Ramble Through London
CLICK HERE TO BOOK Courtesy of Mike Henbrey, it is my pleasure to publish this three-hundred-year-old ballad of the London streets and the trades you might expect to find in each of them, as printed...
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The River Thames Of Old London
There is a dark and glistening river that flows through my dreams – it is the old river Thames, carrying away the filth and debris of the city and, in return, delivering the riches of the world upon...
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Caroline Gilfillan & Andrew Scott’s East End
It is my pleasure to present these poems by Caroline Gilfillan with photographs by Andrew Scott – dating from the early seventies and encapsulating that era when Caroline & Andrew were squatters in...
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