In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London ...
Dan Jones’ painting of Malcolm Johnson at Botolph’s, Aldgate 1982 With his gentle blue eyes and white locks, Reverend Dr Malcolm Johnson was one of the most even-tempered radicals that you could meet, ...
The work of Geoffrey Fletcher (1923–2004) is an inspiration to me, and today I am publishing his drawings of London’s street people in the nineteen sixties from Geoffrey Fletcher’s Pavement Pounders ...
David Lewis (the former proprietor of London’s oldest ironmongers, specialised in serving the coach-building trade and operating from the same location in the Hackney Rd from 1797-2013) was the proud ...
Criminologist Dick Hobbs remembers Bobby Cummines who died on Thursday aged seventy-four “The Queen told me I had a really colourful background” Fifty years ago, working class ...
Photographer Barry Weston introduces his exuberant pictures of the Blues Dances held in Greenwich and Woolwich in the eighties, published for the first time here today.
In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London ...
Next time you pass through Widegate St, walking from Bishopsgate towards Artillery Passage on your way to Spitalfields, lift up your eyes to see the four splendid sculptures of bakers by Philip ...
An ancient thoroughfare with a mythic past, Cornhill takes its name from one of the three former hills of the City of London – an incline barely perceptible today after centuries of human activity ...
“I’m on a whisky diet . . . last week I lost three days!” ...
Originally established in 1854 in Leman St, the Jewish Soup Kitchen opened in Brune St in 1902 and, even though it closed in 1992, the building in Spitalfields still proclaims its purpose to the world ...
Remarkably, Paul Pindar’s house survived the Great Fire along with the rest of Bishopsgate which preserved its late-medieval character, lined with shambles and grand mansions, until it was redeveloped ...
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