In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house ...
These photographs are selected from the exhibition NOW FILMING: Art, Documentary & Resistance in 1930s East London which explores the work of the Workers’ Film & Photo League, who employed the camera as ‘a weapon in the struggle’ by representing working class lives in their fight against poverty, exploitation and the rise of fascism. This free exhibition opens tomorrow at Four Corners in ...
The Closure Of Smithfield Market | Spitalfields Life
2024年11月29日 · Another rich piece of London history. Family friends of ours dating back to the early 1950s, owned the very lucrative Christmas Turkey business at Smithfield and I have a couple of wonderful photos of an occasion when Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (King Charles III’s grandmother) was visiting the Market and was photographed with those friends.
At The Golden Heart - Spitalfields Life
2025年1月18日 · Yes, you should definitely have a regular pub like this. Mine is called ULENSPIEGEL and I’ve been a guest there for 25 years. In the better days, I only had to approach the building for my GUINNESS to be tapped inside!
Lost Spitalfields | Spitalfields Life
2024年10月16日 · Now one of those little houses on Buxton Street would suit me just fine! Although I grew up in Chelsea and not the East End, our childhood playgrounds back in the 1950s were bombsites, although forbidden by our parents to go near them, but we were streetwise and lived in a great Community, everyone having gone through the same experiences, and there for each other if you needed help.
A Final Walk Home - Spitalfields Life
2025年1月6日 · I thought long and hard about what to do with my parents’ ashes. My dad died four years ago and my mum last year. In 2015, my parents moved into a little bungalow opposite my house leaving behind their home in St Margaret’s at Cliffe, Kent.
Lost Spitalfields | Spitalfields Life
2021年9月24日 · A splendid set of photographs. Give it another 100 years and what is there now will be a thing of the past too. I think the photograph marked as ’52 & 9a Artillery Passage, 1680s’ should probably read 1880s.
Fifteenth Annual Report - Spitalfields Life
2024年8月23日 · Secondly, there is a new planning battle looming that is set to dominate the next year in Spitalfields. I am sure you will recall the fight four years ago when the Truman Brewery applied for permission to build a hideous shopping mall with a block of corporate offices on top.
Human Life - Spitalfields
2016年11月3日 · There are more than 5,000 stories by The Gentle Author with 43,000 pictures to be found in the categories and archives on this site
Literary Life - Spitalfields
2024年12月1日 · There are more than 5,000 stories by The Gentle Author with 43,000 pictures to be found in the categories and archives on this site
The Markets Of Old London - Spitalfields Life
2024年6月20日 · Clare Market c.1900. I never knew there was a picture of the legendary and long-vanished Clare Market – where Joseph Grimaldi was born – until I came upon this old glass slide among many thousands in the collection of the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society, housed at the Bishopsgate Institute.Scrutinising this picture, the market does not feel remote at all, as if I could take a ...