Tracing a trajectory running northeast and southwest between Shoreditch Church and the crossing of the River Lea at Clapton, the Black Path links with Old St in one direction and extends beyond ...

In his last interview, Dennis Potter famously eulogised the glory of cherry blossom as an incarnation of the overwhelming vividness of human experience. “The nowness of everything is absolutely ...

Hosted by The Gentle Author, this is a walking tour of storytelling and sightseeing, complemented with archive photography, paintings and music. Tours commence at 2pm, meeting outside Aldgate Station ...

Roger Preece, Master of the Royal Foundation of St Katharine invited me to Limehouse recently to explore the archives, where I found this wonderful album of photographs documenting the activities of ...

I am delighted to announce THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF PETTICOAT LANE, a new tour for 2025, launching this spring. Experience the drama of the celebrated market and meet some those who made it ...

It is my pleasure to show this selection of Roland Collins ‘ evocative photographs of the East End and the City. For a spell in the sixties, while he was working as a Commercial Artist for the ...

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

After finding a two volume set of Thomas Bewick’s British Birds, I also discovered a copy of his General History of Quadrupeds from 1824 in the Spitalfields Market and I turned first to his entry upon ...