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3 days ago · A few years ago, I came across this set of small souvenir Christmas plates Fritz Wegner designed for Fleetwood of Wyoming between 1980 and 1983 in limited editions, which I acquired for almost nothing. They are crudely produced, not unlike those ceramics sold in copy shops with photographic transfers, yet this cheap mass-produced quality endears them to me and I set them out on the dresser ...
The Ghosts Of Old London - Spitalfields Life
8 hours ago · Click to enlarge this photograph. To dispel my disappointment that I cannot rent that Room to Let in Old Aldgate, I find myself returning to scrutinise the collection of pictures taken by the Society for Photographing the Relics of Old London held in the archive at the Bishopsgate Institute.It gives me great pleasure to look closely and see the loaves of …
On Christmas Day | Spitalfields Life
1 day ago · It has become a tradition to publish this story at Christmas each year. Over successive Christmases, as I was growing up in Devon, I witnessed the disintegration of my family until today I am the lone survivor of the entire clan, the custodian, charged with carrying the legacy of all their stories ...
Christmas With Dennis Severs | Spitalfields Life
Dec 18, 2024 · What wonderfully evocative prose and beautiful pictures. Both really bring Dennis Severs and his house brilliantly to life. When I lived above the market in Commercial Street we briefly had a tenants group which Dennis was a member of and I remember going to a Christmas meeting that started with a tour of the house followed by mince pies and (I think) mulled wine in his basement kitchen.
At Smithfield On Christmas Eve | Spitalfields Life
3 days ago · Carnivorous readers will be delighting to learn that – despite the announcement of closure – the traditional Smithfield Christmas Eve meat auction runs this year hosted by G Lawrence & Co on Grand Avenue in the Central Market from 10am. Blow you can read my account of a visit there with the late ...
Literary Life - Spitalfields
Oct 29, 2024 · 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
Lost Spitalfields | Spitalfields Life
Oct 16, 2024 · 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.
Down A Well In Spitalfields | Spitalfields Life
Sep 27, 2024 · CLICK HERE TO BOOK. Thirty years ago, eighteen wooden plates and bowls were recovered from a silted-up well in Spitalfields. One of the largest discoveries of medieval wooden vessels ever made in this country, they are believed to be dishes belonging to the inmates of the long-gone Hospital of St Mary Spital, which gave its name to this place.
The Interregnum In Spitalfields
Feb 2, 2024 · Today Philip Marriage introduces this series of photographs published for the first time here. “These photographs were taken almost thirty years ago, 1994-5, during what I think of as ‘The Interregnum’ – the period after the old Spitalfields Market had moved to Leyton but before the wholesale redevelopment of Brushfield St and its inexorable gentrification.
In Search Of Roman London | Spitalfields Life
Oct 24, 2023 · Shortly after taking gentle author’s mind-expanding tour of Spitalfields last April, I walked past the Roman wall and postern gate at Tower Hill, not knowing what it was, and being distracted by tumult of the London Marathon, which blocked several streets.