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 ...

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.

Growing up in the large flat above the Spitalfields Fruit & Vegetable Market at 103 Commercial St, with school and the family business nearby, David Prescott had the run of the neighbourhood and he ...

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 ...

Sally with her first child Danny in the early nineteen fifties. Sally’s children, Maureen, Jimmy, Pat and Theresa in the yard in Whitechapel in 1962. Sally’s husband, Joseph Flood. Sally in ...

Click to enlarge this photograph To dispel my disappointment that I cannot rent that Room to Let in Old Aldgate, I find myself returning to scrutinize the collection of pictures taken by the Society ...

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.

Once upon a time, the Romans laid out a graveyard along the eastern side of the road leading north from the City of London, in the manner of the cemetery lining the Appian Way. When the Spitalfields ...

Bishopsgate Institute has a magnificent collection of nineteenth century watercolours collected by the first archivist Charles Goss, which offer tantalising glimpses of the last surviving tumbledown ...