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Sophie Charalambous, Artist
. We have now raised £11,000 donated by 140 readers but we still have quite a way to go. Click here to learn more and support publication of Tessa Hunkin’s Hackney Mosaic Project. . Trinity Green...
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Hackney Mosaic Project’s Magnum Opus
We have now raised over £11,000 donated by 142 readers to publish a book of Tessa Hunkin’s Hackney Mosaic but we still have quite a way to go, and only a week left. Click here to learn more and support...
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Laurie Allen Of Petticoat Lane
CLICK HERE TO BOOK FOR TOMORROW’S TOUR OF PETTICOAT LANE . This fellow – so at home he is almost merging with the shopfront behind him – is Laurie Allen standing on a street corner in Petticoat Lane,...
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The Queenhithe Mosaic
. We have now raisedover £11,200 donated by 150 readers but we still have quite a way to go. Click here to learn more and support publication of Tessa Hunkin’s Hackney Mosaic Project. . Queenhithe is...
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A Letter From The Gentle Author
. Dear Readers May I express my gratitude to 193 of you who have generously contributed towards publishing Tessa Hunkin’s Hackney Mosaic Project book so far. Over the past three weeks, thanks to your...
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Alfred Daniels, Artist
CLICK HERE TO BOOK FOR MY TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS The Gramophone Man, Wentworth St “I’m not really an East Ender, I’m more of a Bow boy,” asserted Alfred Daniels with characteristic precision of...
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VE Day, Patched Narratives
CLICK HERE TO BOOK FOR MY TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS Rag Rug by Jill Denton Today is the eightieth anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, May 8th 1945, ending the Second World War. A new exhibition on...
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Firefighter Artists Of The Blitz
The crowdfund for our Hackney Mosaic Project book closes on May 17th . Dinah Winch uncovers the ‘Firemen Artists’ of the Second World War Resting at a Fire by Reginald Mills . London Fire Brigade...
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Harry The Pencil’s Sketchbook
Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s tours When I visited Harry the Pencil in Mile End once, he showed me this modest little sketchbook that he filled when he was working in Great Sutton St,...
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At Kelmscott House, Hammersmith
. The crowdfund for Tessa Hunkin’s Hackney Mosaic Project book closes this Saturday 17th May at midnight I have walked past William Morris’ former house on the river bank in Hammersmith many times...
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William Morris’ East End
Click here to book tickets for The Gentle Author’s Tours . . If you spotted someone hauling an old wooden Spitalfields Market orange crate around the East End, that was me undertaking a pilgrimage to...
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Sarah Ainslie In Covent Garden
The crowdfund for Tessa Hunkin’s Hackney Mosaic Project book closes tomorrow Saturday 17th May at midnight In the eighties, Contributing Photographer Sarah Ainslie photographed the street...
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Crowdfund Report
Thanks to the generosity of 230 readers who contributed to our crowdfund and some other donors, we have raised the budget for Tessa Hunkin’s Hackney Mosaic Project which will be published on...
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In Search Of The Yiddish East End
Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours Writer & biographer M. Syd Rosen is on a quest to discover his family’s past and explore the significance of Yiddish culture today My...
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At The Eagle Tavern
Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours I wish you would take me out to the theatre. I dream of leaving the gloomy old house one evening and joining the excited crowds, out in their best...
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A Fireplace In Fournier St
Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tour this Saturday The scourging There is a fine house in Fournier St with an old fireplace lined with manganese Delft tiles of an attractive mulberry hue...
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Visit The Secret Gardens Of Spitalfields
Gardens in Spitalfields are open for visitors this year on Saturday 7th June from 10am – 4pm. Find details at the website of the National Gardens Scheme. I shall also be The Gentle Author’s Tour of...
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John Allin, Painter
Gun St, Spitalfields John Allin (1934-1991) began painting while serving a six month prison sentence for minor theft, and achieved considerable success in the sixties and seventies with his vivid...
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St Mary Stratford Atte Bow
Click here to book tickets for my Spitalfields Tour . . In 1311, the residents of Bow became sick of trudging through the mud each winter to get to the parish church of St Dunstan’s over in Stepney,...
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At David Kira Ltd, Banana Merchants
Click here to book for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOURS . . To anyone that knows Spitalfields, David Kira Ltd is a familiar landmark at 1 Fournier St next to The Ten Bells. Here, at the premises of the...
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