I was among the first to admire these canine masterpieces created by Hackney Mosaic Project under the presiding genius of Tessa Hunkin when they were installed on Hackney Downs. Tessa’s design took ...

Thanks to more than seventy readers’ contributions we have raised over £5000 since we launched our crowdfund last Saturday.

Every Easter, George & Dunstan, donkeys at Stepney City Farm enjoy an outing when they join the Parishioners of St Dunstan’s for the annual procession around the vicinity on Palm Sunday – and, one ...

The book will include high quality photographs of all the major mosaics, an interview with Tessa Hunkin outlining the nature of the project, commentary on the background to each mosaic by Wendy ...

In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London ...

Thanks to readers’ contributions we have already raised over £2,800 since we launched our crowdfund on Saturday. Below you can read about the very first Hackney Mosaic Project mosaic created in 2012.

It was twenty years after the worst of the Blitz that I first got to know Whitechapel and Stepney, Tower Hamlets’ ancient heartlands. It was 1963, the summer after the coldest winter for a century and ...

If you are looking to spruce up your linen cupboard with some fresh bolster cases or if it is time to replace those tired tea towels and soiled doilies, then these two lovely gentlemen are here to ...

This is just one of the remarkable portraits by John Thomas Smith collected together in a large handsome volume entitled “Vagabondiana,” published in 1817, that I discovered in the collection of the ...