Spitalfields Life | In the midst of life I woke to find myself living ...
3 days ago · 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 ...
Spitalfields Life | In the midst of life I woke to find myself living ...
Nov 20, 2024 · Contributing Photographer David Hoffman sent me these glorious pictures of a party he attended at St Hilda’s Community Centre, Club Row, in 1975. ‘St Hilda’s East was established in 1889 by former pupils of Cheltenham Ladies College as ‘a community of people bound together in the service of the poor’.
The Streets Of Old London - Spitalfields Life
1 day ago · Piccadilly, c. 1900. In my mind, I live in old London as much as I live in the contemporary London of here and now. Maybe I have spent too much time looking at photographs of old London – such as these glass slides once used for magic lantern shows by the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society at the Bishopsgate Institute?. Old London exists to me through photography almost as vividly as ...
The Forgotten Corners Of Old London | Spitalfields Life
2 days ago · Who knows what you might find lurking in the forgotten corners of old London? Like this lonely old waxwork of Charles II who once adorned a side aisle of Westminster Abbey, peering out through a haze of graffiti engraved upon his …
Dan Jones At Bethnal Green Library | Spitalfields Life
8 hours ago · Click to enlarge Dan Jones’ painting of St Paul’s School Wellclose Sq, 1977. Photographer Chris Kelly and I went along to join Dan Jones when he paid a visit to his splendid mural from 1977 of children and their rhymes in the playground of St Paul’s School, Wellclose Sq, which is installed at the Bethnal Green Children’s Library.. The Children’s Library is …
The Loneliness Of Old London - Spitalfields Life
3 days ago · A lone figure certainly brings focus to the scale and dimensions of it all particularly the statue of Richard I at the Houses of Parliament. Alone walking about in Old London was always a pleasure for me, no sense of loneliness, rather, more a sense of ‘no crowds’ giving one time to breath-in the air without the hustle and bustle of it all.
The Nights Of Old London - Spitalfields Life
5 days ago · The nights are drawing in fast and I can feel the velvet darkness falling upon London. As dusk gathers in the ancient churches and the dusty old museums in the late afternoon, the distinction between past and present becomes almost permeable at this time of year.
Human Life - Spitalfields
Nov 3, 2016 · 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
At 37 Spital Square - Spitalfields Life
Sep 2, 2023 · What could be a better showcase for the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings than the fine eighteenth century house they restored in Spital Sq which serves as their headquarters? This magnificent tottering pile is the last surviving Georgian mansion of the entire square once lined with such dwellings, which traced the outline of the former Priory of St Mary Spital that was ...
My Promise | Spitalfields Life
Oct 25, 2009 · Over the coming days, weeks, months and years, I am going to write every day and tell you about life here in Spitalfields at the heart of London.How can I ever describe the exuberant richness and multiplicity of culture in this place to you? This is …