At least once each Summer, I direct my steps eastwards from Spitalfields along the Mile End Rd towards Bow Cemetery, one of the “Magnificent Seven” created by act of Parliament in 1832 as the growing ...

Before I joined the London Library, I had been defeated by the catalogues of the great libraries, with their obscure numerical systems and form-filling requirements just so that you might return to ...

19 11.28.13 Joseph Markovitch, I’ve Lived In East London For Eighty-Six & A Half Years ...

David standing outside 103 Commercial St in the mid-sixties Growing up in the large flat above the Spitalfields Fruit & Vegetable Market at 103 Commercial St, with school and the family business ...

I met Paddy when he returned to Dennis Severs’ House to have his portrait taken by Lucinda Douglas Menzies in 2022. In her portrait above you see him seated in the Dickens’ attic at the house.

GOOD COLOUR – When a sheet is printed neither too dark or too light. GULL – To tear the point holes in a sheet of paper while printing. HELL – The place where the broken and battered type goes to.

“I had always written, as a child,” admitted Sally Flood with a shrug, “but it wasn’t stuff you showed.” For years, when her thoughts wandered whilst working in the factory in Princelet St, Sally ...

Pool Square, three storeyed houses, rough women about, Irish. One house with a wooden top storey, windows broken. This is the last of an Irish colony, the Jews begin to predominate when Grey Eagle St ...