Tessa Hunkin It was fairly hideous because we did not know what we were doing. We did doorsteps for shops and so many toilets and bathrooms, miles of Roman borders, rope borders and rolling waves that ...

The ceremony of the Widow’s Sixpence in the nineteen twenties. A crowd gathers for the ceremony a hundred years ago. Hungry widows line up for buns. The churchyard in the nineteenth century. Rev ...

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 ...

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.

At last, the spring that we all been yearning for has indubitably arrived and Spitalfields City Farm is open to east enders seeking solace, young and old waiting in eagerness to reacquaint themselves ...

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.

Since 2012, I have followed the exemplary work of Tessa Hunkin’s Hackney Mosaic Project which has been responsible for some of the most witty and imaginative mosaics of recent years. Please help me ...

Contributing writer Gillian Tindall’s memoir of her first visits to Stepney in 1963 is accompanied by photographs of the East End taken in that era by her husband Richard Lansdown. Gillian’s account ...