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Spitalfields Life

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2018 364

December 2018

  1. The Last Days Of Shoe Repair
  2. Charles Goss’ Vanishing City
  3. Name The Landmarks Of Jewish Spitalfields
  4. Chamberlain’s East End Churches
  5. Fritz Wegner’s Christmas Plates
  6. Viscountess Boudica’s Christmas
  7. My Pantomime Years
  8. The New Christmas Dinner Song
  9. Jake Green’s Pie & Mash Shops
  10. Christmas At The Salvation Army, 1975
  11. Midwinter Light At Christ Church
  12. Dennis & Christine Reeve, Walnut Farmers
  13. The Spitalfields Nativity Parade
  14. At Mile End Place
  15. Schrodinger’s First Winter In Spitalfields
  16. Looking For Madge Gill
  17. The Roundels Of Spitalfields
  18. Baking London’s Largest Gingerbread Man
  19. A Sikh At Christ Church
  20. At Gaetano Meo’s Grave
  21. Even More Doreen Fletcher Paintings
  22. Yet More Doreen Fletcher Paintings
  23. More Doreen Fletcher Paintings
  24. Last Orders At The Old Gun
  25. Along Old Street
  26. My Coin Collection
  27. Long Nights At Old Spitalfields Market
  28. Some Doreen Fletcher East End Paintings
  29. Benjamin Shapiro Of Quaker St
  30. Street Sellers of Plants, Fruit, Veg & Flowers
  31. Leonard Maloney, Garage Mechanic

November 2018

  1. Adam Dant’s Map Of East End Trades
  2. Cries Of London Snap Cards
  3. At The Boar’s Head Parade
  4. The Trade Cards Of Old London
  5. In Old Marylebone
  6. The Dogs Of Old London
  7. Jonny Hannah’s Fast Cars & Ukeleles
  8. At Fishmongers’ Hall
  9. Painting The Hamlets
  10. Lew Tassell At The Queen’s Silver Jubilee
  11. David Power, Showman
  12. East End At Night
  13. Tony Norman’s Geezers
  14. A Blue Plaque For A.S. Jasper
  15. Cockney Cats
  16. A Tea Party For Doreen Fletcher
  17. Markéta Luskačová At Tate Britain
  18. The Dark Nights Of Old London
  19. Wilfred Owen In Shadwell
  20. Spitalfields Remembers
  21. Spitalfields Life At The Write Idea Festival
  22. John Dempsey’s Street Portraits
  23. Rodney Holt, Designer & Set Builder
  24. When Max Levitas Stormed The Savoy
  25. Schrodinger Takes Charge
  26. Alice Pattullo’s Calendar
  27. So Long, Max Levitas
  28. The Friends Of Arnold Circus
  29. The Gentle Author’s Dead Pubs Crawl
  30. Norah Smyth, Suffragette Photographer

October 2018

  1. The Curse Of Vicky’s Ticker
  2. Upon The Nature Of Gothic Horrors
  3. Suresh Singh’s Spitalfields
  4. Luke Clennell’s Dance Of Death
  5. Piggott Bros & Co Of Bishopsgate
  6. The Bread, Cake & Biscuit Walk
  7. Lyndie Wright, Puppeteer
  8. Susannah Dalbiac’s Almanack
  9. Doreen Fletcher’s First East End Paintings
  10. On 22nd October, 1685
  11. So Long, Madge Darby Of Wapping
  12. My Scrap Collection
  13. At The Barbican
  14. How To Make Prashad
  15. The Small Trades Of Spitalfields
  16. Lew Tassell At Charles & Diana’s Wedding
  17. Maureen Rose, Button Maker
  18. The First Punjabi Punk
  19. Matyas Selmeczi, Silhouette Artist
  20. So Long, Edward Burd
  21. The Triumph of Doreen Fletcher
  22. The CR Ashbee Lecture 2018
  23. East End Yiddisher Jazz
  24. Tim Hunkin’s Air B’n’Bug Machine
  25. A Cockney Sikh
  26. How To Make A Chapati
  27. The Tailor Of Horsleydown
  28. Derek Brook’s East End
  29. Adam Dant’s Map Of St James’ Sq
  30. The Coles Of Brushfield St

September 2018

  1. Samuel Wilson’s Ledger
  2. Joginder Singh’s Boy
  3. John Thomas Smith’s Rural Cottages
  4. Dr Legg, General Practitioner
  5. Mr Pussy At Hatchards
  6. City Animals
  7. Rachael South, Chair Caner & Upholsterer
  8. On Night Patrol With Lew Tassell
  9. A Hard-Working Life
  10. The Tragical Death Of An Apple Pie
  11. The Fate Of The Bethnal Green Mulberry
  12. On Publication Day For Mr Pussy
  13. At St Botolph Without Aldgate
  14. George Dickinson, Sales Manager
  15. How Old Is The Bethnal Green Mulberry?
  16. At 38 Princelet St
  17. A Strange Storm In Shoreditch
  18. Peter Turner, Silversmith
  19. On Top Of Britannic House With Lew Tassell
  20. Angie Lewin & Emily Sutton’s Nature Table
  21. Kyriacos Hadjikyriacou, Pleater
  22. Public Practice
  23. A Modest Living
  24. A Weekend In Fournier St
  25. The Bell Foundry & The Mulberry Tree
  26. John Taylor, The Water Poet
  27. Some Recent Facades
  28. The Loneliness Of Schrodinger
  29. A Walk From Dover To Folkestone
  30. In William Blake’s Lambeth

August 2018

  1. Bow Food Bank Portraits
  2. At The Great Yiddish Parade
  3. So Long, Nathans Pie & Eels
  4. Dorothy Rendell, Artist
  5. At Margolis Silver
  6. William Morris In The East End
  7. Sophie Spielman, Shorthand Typist
  8. James Leman, Silk Designer
  9. Ninth Annual Report
  10. A Walk Around The Docks With Lew Tassell
  11. Barbara Jezewska, Teacher
  12. The Hounds Of Hackney Downs
  13. Henry Croft, Road Sweeper
  14. In Search Of Val Perrin’s Brick Lane
  15. In Mr Pussy’s Chair
  16. David Mason, Wilton’s Music Hall
  17. Charles Booth’s Spitalfields
  18. Clennell’s London Melodies
  19. Receipts From London’s Oldest Ironmongers
  20. Tony Hall, Photographer
  21. A New Tombstone For William Blake
  22. In The Company Of Mr Pussy
  23. In Old Holborn
  24. So Long, Kevin Cordery
  25. A Roman Ruin At The Hairdresser
  26. Return To The Latin Market
  27. Society Of Sign Painters’ Grand Exhibition
  28. At Waterbeach & Landbeach
  29. At Odds With Mr Pussy
  30. The Queenhithe Mosaic
  31. At The Fan Museum In Greenwich

July 2018

  1. At Tjaden’s Electrical Service Shop
  2. Dee Tocqueville, Lollipop Lady
  3. Chris Georgiou, Bespoke Tailor
  4. Ron McCormick’s Spitalfields & Whitechapel
  5. Mr Pussy’s Animal Instinct
  6. A E Batchelor Ltd, Saddlers
  7. Charles Keeping, Illustrator
  8. An Afternoon In Great Bardfield
  9. The New Cries of London, 1803
  10. Whitechapel Noise
  11. Ron McCormick’s Spitalfields
  12. Mr Pussy Thinks He Is A Dog
  13. Harry Levenson, Bookmaker
  14. Swan Upping On The Thames
  15. Tower Repairs At Bow Church
  16. So Long, The Duke Of Wellington
  17. Arful Nessa’s Sewing Machine
  18. Drag Artists Against Trump
  19. Mr Pussy In The Dog Days
  20. SPAB At Eastbury Manor
  21. At The Old Schoolhouse
  22. David Prescott Of Commercial St
  23. East End Beanos
  24. Crudgie, Motorcyclist
  25. Adam Dant’s Rudimentary London
  26. The Ploys Of Mr Pussy
  27. David Carpenter, Maker Of Glass Eyes
  28. Peter Bellerby, Globemaker
  29. Paul Bommer’s Salmagundy
  30. The Map Of Shoreditch As New York
  31. William Oglethorpe, Cheese Maker

June 2018

  1. At Eastbury Manor
  2. The Caprice Of Mr Pussy
  3. George Parrin, Ice Cream Seller
  4. Adam Dant’s West End Launch
  5. The Cabbies Shelters Of Old London
  6. Sarah Chapman, Matchgirl Strike Leader
  7. The Map Of Rotherhithe
  8. A New Home For Schrodinger
  9. Mr Pussy, Water Cat
  10. So Long, Len Hoffman
  11. Hope For The Whitechapel Bell Foundry
  12. Cecile Moss Of Old Montague St
  13. The Map Of Shoreditch In Dreams
  14. On Missing Mr Pussy In Summer
  15. The Life & Times Of Mr Pussy
  16. Julius Mendes Price’s London Types
  17. At Minto Place, Bethnal Green
  18. At The Reform Club
  19. At John Keats’ House
  20. In Fleet St
  21. So Long, Eddie Johnson
  22. At St Pancras Old Churchyard
  23. Thomas Bewick’s Cat
  24. Zareena Malik, Spitalfields Market Trader
  25. On Publication Day For Adam Dant
  26. Down The Roman Road
  27. Visit The Secret Gardens Of Spitalfields
  28. At Snappy Snaps In Bishopsgate
  29. The Walking Footballers Of West Ham
  30. Stories Of Hackney Old & New

May 2018

  1. Ahmet Kamil, Shoe Repairer
  2. The City Gates As They Appeared Before They Were Torn Down
  3. At Stationers’ Hall
  4. David Hoffman At Fieldgate Mansions
  5. At The Latin Market
  6. So Long, Nathan’s Pies & Eels
  7. The London Riot Map
  8. The Hackney Whipping Post
  9. Guardians Of The Arches
  10. Lewis Lupton’s Spitalfields
  11. Phil Mills, Steeplekeeper At St Vedast’s
  12. Vanishing London
  13. Dog Days At Club Row
  14. The Map of Shakespeare’s Shoreditch
  15. The Boss Of Bethnal Green’s Bicentennial
  16. At Frost Brothers Ltd, Rope Makers
  17. A Wedding Dress Of Spitalfields Silk
  18. The Nine Herbs Charm
  19. The Last Derelict House In Spitalfields
  20. At Bow Food Bank
  21. The Map Of Thames Shipwrecks
  22. A Lost Botanic World In Aldgate
  23. Paul Gardner’s Collection
  24. At The Clerkenwell Sessions House
  25. William Henry Knapp’s Memoir
  26. Charles Jones, Photographer
  27. High Days & Holidays Of Old London
  28. The Map Of Industrious Shoreditch
  29. The Little Yellow Watch Shop
  30. At The Brady Clubs
  31. Charles Chusseau-Flaviens, Photographer

April 2018

  1. At Morden College
  2. The Departure Of Tom Disson
  3. Charles Dickens’ Inkwell
  4. The Map Of London Slang
  5. Sarah Ainslie’s Hatton Garden Portraits
  6. Bluebells At Bow Cemetery
  7. Mychael Barratt’s Whitechapel Mural
  8. Pensioners United
  9. Vaisakhi At Gurdwara Dasmesh Darbar
  10. A Walk Along The Black Path
  11. The Map Of The Coffee Houses
  12. Shakespeare’s Dark Lady of Spitalfields
  13. Last Of The Crooners At The Palm Tree
  14. At The Caslon Foundry In Chiswell St
  15. A Chance To Visit The Old London Hospital
  16. At The House Mill
  17. Harold Stabler’s Tiles At Bethnal Green
  18. The Hackney Treasure Map
  19. Charles W. Cushman’s London
  20. In William Blake’s Lambeth
  21. At KTS The Corner DIY
  22. Happy Birthday Newham Bookshop!
  23. The London Alphabet
  24. Ninety-Nine Years At Syd’s Coffee Stall
  25. Stories Of Clerkenwell Old & New
  26. The Weathervanes Of London
  27. Ron McCormick’s Whitechapel
  28. Isaac Rosenberg, Poet & Painter
  29. At Verdi’s
  30. Viscountess Boudica At Easter

March 2018

  1. Bow Food Bank Portraits
  2. Stories Of Shoreditch Old & New
  3. The Departure Of Ken Long
  4. James Ince & Sons, Umbrella Makers
  5. Chris Kelly’s Columbia School Portraits
  6. Stanley Rondeau, Huguenot
  7. Arful Nessa’s Sewing Machine
  8. Chris Skaife, Master Raven Keeper & Merlin The Raven
  9. Adam Dant’s Maps Of London & Beyond
  10. John Stow’s Spittle Fields
  11. At Caravanserail
  12. Henry Mayhew, The London Vagabond
  13. New Hope For Trinity Green Almshouses
  14. A Walk Through Time In Spitalfields Market
  15. At The Pet Cemetery
  16. Viscountess Boudica’s St Patrick’s Day
  17. David Granick’s Spitalfields
  18. Vivian Betts At The Primrose
  19. Dan Cruickshank, Photographer
  20. Adam Dant’s New Cries Of Spittelfields
  21. At Wood St Stables
  22. Harry Permutt, Master Goldsmith
  23. The Doors Of Old London
  24. East End Women In Colour
  25. The Principal Operations Of Weaving
  26. Peta Bridle’s Latest Drypoint Etchings
  27. Geoffrey Fletcher Among The Meths Men
  28. James Boswell At The Art Workers Guild
  29. So Long, Vittoria Wharf
  30. Tower Hamlets Advertisements, 1967
  31. Tony Bock On The Railways
  32. East End Snowmen Of Yesteryear

February 2018

  1. The Gentle Author At The Society Of Genealogists
  2. Kate Parry Frye’s Suffragette Diary
  3. Down A Well In Spitalfields
  4. Cecil Osborne’s Lost Murals Rediscovered
  5. Old Mother Hubbard & Her Wonderful Dog
  6. In Praise Of Older Women
  7. East End Women Take Action
  8. Women Of The New East End
  9. Women Of The Old East End
  10. The Bethnal Green Mulberry Lecture
  11. Dragan Novaković’s Club Row
  12. So Long, Hester Mallin
  13. London Salt-Glazed Stoneware
  14. Dragan Novaković’s Brick Lane
  15. Majer Bogdanski, Tailor, Bundist, Yiddishist, Composer & Singer
  16. Vinegar Valentines For Tradesmen
  17. At The Royal Horticultural Society
  18. At Captain Cook’s House In Mile End Rd
  19. East End Vernacular In Bethnal Green
  20. At Goldsmiths’ Hall
  21. The Miasma At Euston
  22. Celebrating East End Suffragettes
  23. At The Ragged School Museum
  24. Neil Martinson, Photographer
  25. Ancient Trees in Richmond Park
  26. The Englishman & The Eel
  27. So Long, Milly Rich
  28. Looking Down On Old London

January 2018

  1. The Reckoning With Crest Nicholson
  2. Eva Frankfurther, Artist
  3. A Reply From Crest Nicholson
  4. Beattie Orwell, Centenarian
  5. Lucinda Rogers At Ridley Rd Market III
  6. Caroline Gilfillan & Andrew Scott’s East End
  7. The Pointe Shoe Makers Of Hackney
  8. The Battle Of Tolmers Square
  9. The Wonders Of St Michael & All Angels
  10. Thomas Onwyn’s London
  11. Old Trees In Greenwich Park
  12. Write Your Own Blog In 2018
  13. So Long, Dorothy Rendell
  14. A Letter To Crest Nicholson
  15. Lucinda Douglas-Menzies At Billingsgate Market
  16. John Gillman’s Bus Tickets
  17. Charles Hindley’s Cries Of London
  18. Here We Go Round The Mulberry Tree
  19. Henry Silk At Abbott & Holder
  20. William Whiffin, Photographer
  21. Faulkner’s Street Cries
  22. East End Vernacular At Abbott & Holder
  23. So Long, Arthur Of Arthur’s Cafe
  24. Hester Mallin, Artist & Autodidact Polymath
  25. The Signs Of Old London
  26. The Gentle Author At Bishopsgate Institute
  27. At Margolis Silver
  28. Tony Hall’s East End Panoramas
  29. So Long, Hackney Rd Bingo Hall
  30. The Old Gates Of London

2017 364

December 2017

  1. On Facadism
  2. So Long, Juke Box Jimmy
  3. Christmas With Dennis Severs
  4. Dorothy Rendell’s East End Portraits
  5. Dorothy Rendell, Artist
  6. The Toy Theatre Publishers Of Old St
  7. The Gentle Author’s Childhood Christmas
  8. A Walk Through Old London
  9. Pelliccis’ Celebrity Album
  10. At Two Temple Place
  11. William West’s Tavern Anecdotes
  12. Bill Crome, Window Cleaner
  13. At The Pathology Museum
  14. Wonderful London
  15. Announcement Of Mick Taylor’s Funeral
  16. George Cruikshank’s Festive Season In London
  17. The Vocabulary Of Beer
  18. In Stepney, 1963
  19. Spitalfields Parties of Yesteryear
  20. Laurie Elks’ Album Of Bottle Labels
  21. Snowfall At Bow Cemetery
  22. Harold Burdekin’s London Nights
  23. The Tragical Death Of An Apple Pie
  24. Moyra Peralta’s Worldly Goods
  25. Winter Light In Spitalfields
  26. My Cries Of London Scraps
  27. East End Saree Shops
  28. The Spitalfields Bowl
  29. On Missing Mr Pussy In Winter
  30. Harriet Slaughter, Florist
  31. Sarah Ainslie’s Somali Portraits

November 2017

  1. The Map Of East End Independents
  2. At St George’s Lutheran Church In Aldgate
  3. Lucinda Rogers At Ridley Rd Market II
  4. Furniture Trade Cards Of Old London
  5. The Great Cat & Dog Massacre
  6. Adverts From The Jewish East End
  7. Joginder Singh, Shoe Maker
  8. At The Great Yiddish Parade
  9. Rose At The Golden Heart
  10. Lucinda Rogers At Ridley Rd Market
  11. Maria Pellicci, The Meatball Queen Of Bethnal Green
  12. Kurt Hutton, Photographer
  13. Petherick’s London Characters
  14. Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Churches
  15. Singles Night At Novelty Automation
  16. The Gentle Author’s Wapping Pub Crawl
  17. Syd Shelton’s East Enders
  18. Count Ralph Smorczewski In The East End
  19. The Executions Of Old London
  20. Two East End Vernacular Lectures
  21. More East End Beer Bottle Labels
  22. Ben Hur’s Stepney
  23. The Pubs Of Old London
  24. Philip Mernick’s Mortlake Jugs
  25. John Minton’s East End
  26. Maurice Evans, Self-Taught Pyrotechnician
  27. So Long, Glenys Bristow
  28. How To Eat A Pomegranate
  29. East End Beer Bottle Labels
  30. So Long, Myra Love

October 2017

  1. A Brief History Of Crypts
  2. Upon The Fear Of Reptilian Creatures
  3. Sophie Spielman, Shorthand Typist
  4. The Working Artist: The East London Group
  5. A Plea For The Bethnal Green Mulberry
  6. Roy Gardner’s Sales Tickets
  7. The East End Vernacular Lectures
  8. Arnold Circus Celebrates Naseem Khan
  9. Love Tokens From The Thames
  10. The East End In The Afternoon
  11. At The Drapers’ Hall
  12. A Dead Man In Clerkenwell
  13. Nicholas Culpeper, Herbalist & Surgeon
  14. Ivor Weiss, Artist
  15. Hope In The Housing Crisis
  16. Albert Turpin’s Bethnal Green
  17. James Mackinnon’s Solo Exhibition
  18. Learn How To Write Your Own Blog
  19. The Bloody Romance Of The Tower
  20. A Conversation With Doreen Fletcher
  21. Doreen Fletcher’s New Exhibition
  22. Bert Hardy, Photographer
  23. Dan Jones’ East End Portraits
  24. Postcards From Petticoat Lane
  25. Val Perrin’s Brick Lane
  26. The Last Gasometer In Poplar
  27. Introducing EAST END VERNACULAR
  28. At Dr Johnson’s House
  29. East End Women At Work
  30. At Mick Taylor’s Flat

September 2017

  1. A Walk With Mick Taylor
  2. So Long, Mick Taylor
  3. William Fishman, Historian
  4. The Launch Of EAST END VERNACULAR
  5. The Gentle Author’s Dead Pubs Crawl
  6. Remembering Stratford’s Lost Industries
  7. At The Eagle Tavern
  8. Dennis Anthony’s Petticoat Lane
  9. Thomas Rowlandson’s Lower Orders
  10. In Old Clerkenwell
  11. Eleanor Crow’s East End Fish Shops
  12. The Markets of Old London
  13. Tony Armstrong Jones In The East End
  14. The Coal Holes of Old London
  15. James Leman, Silk Designer
  16. William Nicholson’s London Types
  17. The Forgotten Corners Of Old London
  18. Bernard Kops, Poet, Novelist & Playwright
  19. William Morris In The East End
  20. Patrick Baty’s East End Projects
  21. Alan Stapleton’s Alleys, Byways & Courts
  22. Bill Brandt, Photographer
  23. Save The Bethnal Green Mulberry
  24. Terry Bloomfield, Fish Dealer & Photographer
  25. Derrick Porter, Hoxton Poet
  26. Alice Pattullo’s Household Lore
  27. A.S. Jasper At The Museum Of Childhood
  28. A Walk Along The White Cliffs
  29. Doris Halsall, Civil Servant & Despatch Rider
  30. Cockney Cats

August 2017

  1. The Departure Of Richard Lee
  2. Lilo Blum, Equestrian
  3. At Chu’s Garage, London Fields
  4. A Conversation With Milly Rich
  5. The Alphabet Of Lost Pubs
  6. Misericords In Limehouse
  7. Eighth Annual Report
  8. Lunch At Mama Thai
  9. Sheila Bell of Great Eastern Buildings
  10. At Kelmscott House
  11. Ed Gray, Artist
  12. Mary Burd, Clinical Psychologist
  13. Hop Picking With Colin O’Brien
  14. In Tenterground
  15. At Sandys Row Synagogue
  16. So Long, Mr Pussy
  17. James McNeill Whistler In The East End
  18. At Empress Coaches
  19. Summer At Arnold Circus
  20. At David Kira Ltd
  21. Hopping Photography
  22. At William Gee Ltd
  23. S. R. Badmin In Wapping
  24. Mr Pussy’s Chair
  25. Nathaniel Kornbluth, Artist
  26. Wolfgang Suschitzky, Photographer
  27. The Old South Bank
  28. Dicky Lumskul’s Ramble Through London
  29. Edith Tudor-Hart, Photographer
  30. Roy Reed At Billingsgate Market

July 2017

  1. Charles Ginner In Bethnal Green
  2. John Thomas Smith’s Antient Topography
  3. Dorothy Bishop in Bethnal Green
  4. Lost Spitalfields
  5. Lawrence Gowing In Mare St
  6. Old Signs Of Spitalfields
  7. Harold & Walter Steggles, Artists
  8. Manhole Covers Of Spitalfields
  9. Harry T. Harmer, Artist
  10. Raju Vaidyanathan, Photographer
  11. Grace Oscroft, Artist
  12. Charles Skilton’s London Life, 1950
  13. Ronald Morgan, Artist
  14. Beano Season In The East End
  15. Chris Kelly’s Cable St Gardeners
  16. Three Paintings By John Allin
  17. The Travels Of Colin O’Brien
  18. Tim Marten, Guitar Repairs
  19. At St Augustine’s Tower
  20. James Mackinnon, Artist
  21. The Tale Of Old Flo & Her Orphans
  22. Christ Church Spitalfields by Leon Kossoff
  23. In City Churchyards
  24. Libby Hall, Collector of Dog Photography
  25. Spitalfields In Kodachrome
  26. In Old Bermondsey
  27. Street Scene by Barnett Freedman
  28. In Old Rotherhithe
  29. Florence Nightingale in Cleveland St
  30. The Stranger’s Guide To London
  31. Peri Parkes, Painter

June 2017

  1. John Stow’s Survay Of Spittle Fields, 1598
  2. Lollipop People
  3. Keith Parmenter, Dry Cleaner
  4. Marius Webb, Bookseller At Foyles
  5. Fulham Palace
  6. So Long, Maurice Sills
  7. Benjamin Kipling, Bell Tuner
  8. Roland Collins, Artist
  9. John Allin, Artist
  10. Henry Silk, Artist
  11. Pearl Binder, Artist
  12. Anthony Eyton, Painter
  13. Elwin Hawthorne, Painter
  14. Jock McFadyen, Painter
  15. Rose Henriques, Artist
  16. Cyril Mann, Painter
  17. Phil Maxwell & Hazuan Hashim’s East End Films
  18. Dan Jones, Artist
  19. Doreen Fletcher, Painter
  20. Albert Turpin, Artist, Window Cleaner & Mayor Of Bethnal Green
  21. East End Vernacular
  22. Two Lost Breweries Of Whitechapel
  23. So Long, Naseem Khan OBE
  24. At Cable St Gardens
  25. The Night I Kissed Joan Littlewood
  26. Rehan Jamil’s Whitechapel Portraits
  27. Night At Spitalfields Market
  28. The Last East End Chair Frame Makers
  29. Trinity Green Almshouses Are Saved
  30. Pumps Of Old London

May 2017

  1. Pavement Pounders
  2. At Bow Church
  3. At Sangorski & Sutcliffe
  4. Roy Wild, Loving Son
  5. Janet Brooke’s East End Shopfronts
  6. A Bethnal Green Childhood
  7. Remembering Joseph Grimaldi In Finsbury
  8. Highdays & Holidays In Old London
  9. Desire Paths Of The East End
  10. Nicholas Culpeper’s Spitalfields
  11. At The Painted Hall In Greenwich
  12. In The Woods With Barn The Spoon
  13. Moyra Peralta’s Spitalfields
  14. East End Toy Manufacturers of 1917
  15. East Enders In Uniform
  16. So Long, Bruno Besagni
  17. So Long, Olive Besagni
  18. Terry Scales, Artist
  19. At Emery Walker’s House
  20. The Gentle Author’s Cries Of Covent Garden
  21. Abdul Chowdry In Camden Square
  22. Peta Bridle’s River Etchings
  23. At Stephen Walters & Sons, Silkweavers
  24. Phil Maxwell At Watney Market
  25. The Artists Of Headway East
  26. Chris Miles’ East End
  27. A Walk In Long Forgotten London
  28. The Gentle Author In Covent Garden
  29. Homer Sykes’ Spitalfields
  30. Nevio Pellicci Goes To Market
  31. Philip Cunningham’s London Docks

April 2017

  1. Gary Arber At Home
  2. Two Spitalfields Shopkeepers
  3. In Spitalfields, 1842
  4. Thomas Bewick’s Birds of Spitalfields
  5. Charles Saumarez Smith’s East London
  6. Phil Maxwell in Vallance Rd
  7. William Kent’s Arch At Bow
  8. At Great Eastern Buildings
  9. Ken Long, Greengrocer
  10. A.S. Jasper’s Years After
  11. Phil Cunningham’s East End Streets
  12. Delivering The Bell Foundry Petition
  13. Learn How To Write Your Own Blog
  14. Edward Burd, Horologist
  15. A. S. Jasper’s Hoxton Childhood
  16. Milly Abrahams, Dressmaker
  17. Strange News From Spitalfields
  18. Bob Mazzer At The Model Railway Show
  19. The Ceremony Of The Widow’s Sixpence
  20. Digging Up the Oldest Tree In The East End
  21. A.S. Jasper, Author & Cabinet-Maker
  22. The Facading Of The White Hart
  23. Palm Sunday In Stepney
  24. Royal Jubilee Bells At Garlickhythe
  25. Bex Shaw’s Shopfronts
  26. The Return Of The Widow’s Buns
  27. At The Jewish Soup Kitchen In Brune St
  28. Trevor Salthouse, Butler
  29. Fresh Fish For Passover In Stamford Hill
  30. At Chu’s Garage

March 2017

  1. The Pleasures & Miseries Of London
  2. James Boswell, Artist & Illustrator
  3. The Most Famous Bells In The World
  4. Henrietta Keeper, Singer
  5. A Visit To Great Tom At St Paul’s
  6. So Long, Des & Lorraine’s Junk Shop
  7. Alan Shipp, Hyacinth Grower
  8. Matchbox Models By Lesney & Co
  9. An Old Whitechapel Bell
  10. A Hoxton Childhood & The Years After
  11. At Golden Lane Estate
  12. Philip Cunningham’s East End Shopfronts
  13. Charles Spurgeon’s Street Traders
  14. Adam Dant’s Map Of Shoreditch Old & New
  15. A Petition To Save The Bell Foundry
  16. Philip Cunningham’s Pub Crawl
  17. A Drink At The Hoop & Grapes
  18. A Shirt By Frank Foster
  19. Terry’s Tropicals
  20. Tim Marten, Guitar Repairs in Denmark St
  21. Nigel Henderson’s East End
  22. Save The Whitechapel Bell Foundry
  23. John Claridge’s Soho Portraits
  24. Leonard Fenton, Actor
  25. Paul Gardner At Downing St
  26. Stephen Gill’s Trolley Women
  27. A Walk With Philip Cunningham
  28. Cockney Cats
  29. Stuart Goodman In Broadway Market
  30. Tony Bock’s East End Portraits
  31. Tony Bock’s East End
  32. Trussing The Cooper At Truman’s Brewery

February 2017

  1. Nippers At The Museum of Childhood
  2. Tony Hall’s East End
  3. At London Fields Railway Arches
  4. Alan Dein’s East End Shops
  5. Philip Marriage, Photographer
  6. The Mystery of Isabelle Barker’s Hat
  7. John Claridge’s East End Shops
  8. Tony Hall’s East End Shops
  9. At Paul Kirby’s Foam Shop
  10. Spring Flowers At Bow
  11. At 45 Hanbury St
  12. Phil Maxwell At Whitechapel Car Boot Sale
  13. An East End Murder & A West End Grave
  14. The Return of Sebastian Harding
  15. Yet More Philip Cunningham Portraits
  16. Some Vinegar Valentines
  17. Bug Woman & A London Inheritance
  18. Charles Chusseau-Flaviens’ London
  19. The Kiosks Of Whitechapel
  20. Markéta Luskačová At Leila’s Shop
  21. A Lost Corner Of Whitechapel
  22. A Petition To Save Our Shopkeepers
  23. Paul Pindar’s House
  24. At The Georgian Group
  25. In Old Spitalfields
  26. In Search Of Christopher Marlowe
  27. Alfred Daniels’ Murals In Hammersmith
  28. In Celebration Of High St Traders

January 2017

  1. A New Home For The SS Robin
  2. More Philip Cunningham Portraits
  3. Hilary Haydon At The Charterhouse
  4. Happy Birthday, Lilo Blum!
  5. The World Of The Car Washes
  6. In Search Of The Red Lion Theatre
  7. Lew Lessen, Barber
  8. Fogs & Smogs In Old London
  9. Crowden & Keeves’ Catalogue
  10. Clive Murphy’s Spitalfields
  11. Colin O’Brien Photography Workshop
  12. Save The East End’s Architectural Heritage
  13. Barnett Freedman, Artist & Illustrator
  14. At Joseph Harker’s Paint Studios
  15. Anna Maria Garthwaite, Silk Designer
  16. Israel Bidermanas’ London
  17. Philip Cunningham’s East End Portraits
  18. At Beckenham Place
  19. Frank Dobson’s Sculpture In Whitechapel
  20. So Long, Victor Lownes
  21. Ebbe Sadolin In London
  22. Ted Vanner, Model Steamboat Pioneer
  23. At The Blind Beggar In Whitechapel
  24. Phil Maxwell Returns To Sclater St Market
  25. The Nippers At The William Morris Gallery
  26. Andrew Baker At Hiller Bros
  27. Tallis’ Street Views Of Bishopsgate 1838
  28. Margaret Rope’s Haggerston Windows
  29. So Long, Alfred Daniels
  30. Working Lads Of Whitechapel
  31. ‘No Enemy But Winter & Rough Weather…’

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December 2016

  1. Kevin O’Brien, Retired Road Sweeper
  2. The Toy Theatres Of Old St & Hoxton
  3. At The Whitechapel Mission At Christmas
  4. The Disappearing Pubs Of Marylebone
  5. Doris Halsall, Civil Servant & Despatch Rider
  6. Ghosts Of Old London
  7. Dennis & Christine Reeve, Walnut Farmers
  8. Dinners Of Old London
  9. Some Christmas Baubles
  10. The Alphabet Of Lost Pubs U-Z
  11. Mr Pussy In Midwinter
  12. More Of Sarah Ainslie’s Bingo Portraits
  13. Stephen Armstrong, Whitechapel Postman
  14. Spitalfields Market Parties Of Yesteryear
  15. The Still & Star Is Saved!
  16. Geraldine Beskin, Witch
  17. Brutal East End
  18. Nicholas Borden’s Recent Paintings
  19. At Benjamin Truman’s House
  20. The Alphabet Of Lost Pubs S-T
  21. Sarah Ainslie’s Bingo Portraits
  22. Bob Mazzer At The Ace Cafe
  23. Richard Dighton’s City Characters, 1824
  24. Philip Cunningham’s Mile End Place
  25. So Long, Joan Naylor
  26. On St Nicholas’ Eve
  27. Blackie, The Spitalfields Market Cat
  28. John Leighton’s Cries Of London
  29. Paul Gardner Goes To Downing St
  30. So Long, Whitechapel Bell Foundry
  31. A Walk To View The Gasometers

November 2016

  1. Adam Dant’s Coffee House Map
  2. The Alphabet Of Lost Pubs Q-R
  3. George Cruikshank’s London In Winter
  4. A Conversation With Milly Rich
  5. James Hadfield’s Pistol
  6. At Syd’s Coffee Stall
  7. Tony Jack, Truman’s Chauffeur
  8. Raphael Samuel’s Farewell To Spitalfields
  9. Kevin Boys, Blacksmith
  10. St Jude’s In The City
  11. A Big Send-Off For Colin O’Brien
  12. Two Pieces Of Good News
  13. Richard Jefferies In The City
  14. The Alphabet Of Lost Pubs M-P
  15. The Programme For Tomorrow
  16. Dan Cruickshank At Trinity Green
  17. Tim Hunkin’s Housing Ladder
  18. Spitalfields Remembers The Great War
  19. The Publican & The Historian
  20. Lucy Kemp-Welch At The Royal Exchange
  21. At The Garden Of Hope
  22. A Celebration Of Colin O’Brien
  23. Mike Seaborne’s Isle of Dogs, Then & Now
  24. A Date With Joseph Merceron
  25. The Alphabet Of Lost Pubs H-L
  26. Maurice Evans, Collector Of Fireworks
  27. At The Royalty Theatre, Wellclose Sq
  28. A Stick-Up At Six Mile Stone
  29. A One Way Ticket To Sydney
  30. Julian Woodford, Author & Digital Flâneur

October 2016

  1. Henry Silk’s East End Still Lifes
  2. Henry Silk, Basket Maker & Artist
  3. The Alphabet Of Lost Pubs D-G
  4. Paul Gardner 2/8
  5. The Fish Plaice
  6. Markéta Luskačová’s Street Musicians
  7. Last Days At Hiller Brothers
  8. A Walk Through Roman London
  9. The Alphabet Of Lost Pubs A-C
  10. Phil Maxwell In Hanbury St
  11. The Costume & Mantle Worker
  12. Last Days Out With Colin O’Brien
  13. Richard Ardagh At Wilton’s Music Hall
  14. The Spitalfields Mulberry
  15. Happy Birthday, Mannie Blankett!
  16. Two Favourite Blogs
  17. Jonathon Green’s Dictionary Of Slang
  18. Nights In Old London
  19. A Celebration Of The Life Of Colin O’Brien
  20. Days Out With Colin O’Brien
  21. Clive Murphy’s Matchbox Labels
  22. John Claridge At East London Liquor Co.
  23. In Search Of The Boss Of Bethnal Green
  24. The Fish Harvest Festival
  25. Alice Pattullo’s Animal ABC
  26. Alex Pink In Woolwich
  27. Passing Trade
  28. Max Levitas & The Battle of Cable St
  29. So Long, Frank Foster
  30. The Boss Of Bethnal Green

September 2016

  1. Robin Hood Gardens Portraits
  2. This Is Jimmy’s London, 1944
  3. Tex Ajetunmobi, Photographer
  4. The C R Ashbee Lecture 2016
  5. Thomas Newington’s Recipes
  6. Return To Sandwich
  7. Phil Maxwell At The Bus Stop
  8. Five Buildings In Whitechapel
  9. John Claridge’s Other World
  10. Misericords At St Katharine’s Chapel
  11. Ghost Signs Of Bermondsey & Southwark
  12. Thierry Girard’s East End, 1976
  13. Christopher Brown At Townhouse
  14. The Gentle Author At RIBA
  15. Sweet Simple Old Place
  16. Phil Maxwell In Whitechapel Rd
  17. Out From London To The Sea
  18. Adam Dant’s Map Of Thames Shipwrecks
  19. Bob Mazzer Goes To The Dogs
  20. At Gravesend
  21. In Old Deptford
  22. Lifesaving In Limehouse
  23. Stepney’s Lost Mansions
  24. Where The White Chapel Once Stood
  25. From Old Bedlam To Liverpool St
  26. Smithfield’s Bloody Past
  27. The Tunnel Through Time
  28. Richard Lee, Bicycle Spares Seller
  29. Doreen Fletcher, Artist
  30. Relics At St Paul’s From Before The Fire

August 2016

  1. Charles Keeping, Artist
  2. Schrödinger, Church Cat
  3. At Clapton Beauty Parlour
  4. Frank Foster, Shirt Maker
  5. Roman Ruin At The Hairdresser
  6. William Oglethorpe, Cheese Maker Of Bermondsey
  7. Seventh Annual Report
  8. Save The Royal Exchange Murals!
  9. An Excursion To Tudeley
  10. Julie Price, Artist
  11. So Long, Colin O’Brien
  12. Decanted From Robin Hood Gardens
  13. Return To Robin Hood Gardens
  14. At Robin Hood Gardens
  15. The Gentle Author At Libreria
  16. Halima Blacker, Make-Up Artist
  17. David Fried, Artist
  18. Shanaz Begum, Custodian Of Stories
  19. The Jungle On The Corner Of Princelet St
  20. Inside The Model Of St Paul’s
  21. Hop Pickers’ Photographs
  22. So Long, Jack Corbett
  23. In Denmark St
  24. The Weathervanes Of Old London
  25. Doorkins Magnificat, Southwark Cathedral Cat
  26. Drink-In At The Still & Star
  27. Tony Hall’s Pub Photography
  28. March’s New Cries Of London
  29. Music Hall Stars Of Abney Park Cemetery
  30. At The Still & Star
  31. The Departure Of Viscountess Boudica
  32. Mayhew’s Street Traders

July 2016

  1. Lawrence Jenkin, Spectacle Maker
  2. Save The Algha Spectacle Works!
  3. The Gentle Author’s Snaps
  4. Summer At Arnold Circus
  5. Maurice Sills, 101 Years Young Today!
  6. Under The Pedley St Arch
  7. At Victoria Park Model Boat Club
  8. At Doggett’s Coat & Badge Race
  9. George Parrin, Ice Cream Seller
  10. Adam Dant’s London Riot Map
  11. Robson Cezar At St Katharine’s Precinct
  12. Haymaking On Walthamstow Marshes
  13. Wonderful London’s East End
  14. Mr Pussy In High Summer
  15. Matyas Selmeczi, Silhouette Artist
  16. Danny Fields, Manager Of The Ramones
  17. Viscountess Boudica At The Society Club
  18. At Central Books
  19. A London Bestiary
  20. At Spitalfields Fruit & Veg Market
  21. In A Dinghy With John Claridge
  22. George Cruikshank’s London Summer
  23. Richard Ivey In Toynbee St
  24. At Chatham Dockyard
  25. The Mile End Mulberry
  26. David O’Mara’s Spitalfields
  27. Tales From The Two Puddings
  28. Housing Problems
  29. Elegy For Upton Park
  30. Mr Pussy Soldiers On
  31. On A Thames Sailing Barge
  32. Stoke Newington’s Ghost Signs

June 2016

  1. Jeffrey Johnson’s Favourite Signs
  2. The London Nobody Knows Now
  3. A Brief History Of London’s Mulberries
  4. Israel Zangwill’s Spitalfields
  5. Under The Arches At Three Colts Lane
  6. Stuart Goodman At Broadway Market
  7. Cockney Beano Time
  8. East End Pubs, Then & Now
  9. Viscountess Boudica’s Open House
  10. The Old Ladies Of Whitechapel
  11. With The Druids At Midsummer
  12. Evening At Brick Lane Mosque
  13. Morning At Brick Lane Mosque
  14. East End Independents’ Day
  15. Phil Maxwell’s Kids On The Street
  16. At St George’s Lutheran Church
  17. At Bevis Marks Synagogue
  18. At The Curtain Theatre
  19. At The House Of Dreams
  20. Cries Of London At The NPG
  21. A Nation Of Tea-Drinkers
  22. East End Film Show
  23. Doreen Fletcher, Landscape Painter
  24. So Long, Billy Frost
  25. A Walk With Rachel Lichtenstein
  26. Doreen Fletcher’s East End, Then & Now
  27. Robert Green Of Sclater St Market
  28. Doreen Fletcher’s Exhibition
  29. John Claridge’s People On The Street
  30. John Claridge’s Time Out

May 2016

  1. John Claridge’s Moments Of Connection
  2. John Claridge’s East End Landscapes
  3. Some Diversions By John Claridge
  4. The Departure Of Richard Lee
  5. Sammy Fisher Of Old Montague St
  6. Morley Von Sternberg At 19 Princelet St
  7. Dick Turpin, Butcher & Highwayman
  8. John Claridge’s Lonely Place
  9. Philip Mernick’s East End Shopfronts
  10. Mal Gilliam Of Golden Lane Estate
  11. EAST END by John Claridge
  12. Viscountess Boudica’s Drawings
  13. John Allin, Painter
  14. Edge Of The City
  15. Garden Extracts
  16. The Return Of Pat Nightingale
  17. Vanishing London
  18. Happy Days At The Queen’s Head
  19. Malcolm Tremain’s East End In Colour
  20. Norton Folgate, The Fight Is On Again!
  21. Malcolm Tremain’s Spitalfields In Colour
  22. The Gentle Author’s Verdict
  23. East End Cobblers
  24. Staircases Of Old London
  25. Watermen’s Stairs In Wapping
  26. Jack Sheppard Of Spitalfields
  27. So Long, Angela Flanders
  28. An Audience With Viscountess Boudica
  29. Microcosm Of London, 1809
  30. A Night On Liverpool St Station
  31. Punch & Judy In Covent Garden

April 2016

  1. Spinach & Eggs From The City Farm
  2. Strange And Terrible News!
  3. Boiling Eels At Barney’s Seafood
  4. Jeffrey Johnson’s Favourite Spots
  5. Jeffrey Johnson’s Favourite Pubs
  6. Day Of Reckoning For Norton Folgate
  7. More Phil Maxwell On Sclater St
  8. Phil Maxwell On Sclater St
  9. Viscountess Boudica’s St George’s Day
  10. At Shakespeare’s Theatre In Shoreditch
  11. In The Cherry Orchards Of Kent
  12. The Bug Woman & A London Inheritance
  13. Relics Of Old St Paul’s At New St Paul’s
  14. Tonight At Shoreditch Church
  15. From Ken Sequin’s Badge Collection
  16. Drew Worthley’s Ode To Stepney
  17. Heads, Bodies & Legs By Alice Pattullo
  18. Pierce Egan’s ‘Life In London’
  19. A Bread, Cake & Biscuit Walk
  20. Memoirs Of William Henry Knapp
  21. Modern London, The World’s Metropolis
  22. The Modest Wonders Of Hackney Wick
  23. Delft Tiles In Fournier St
  24. Joan Lauder, Cat Lady Of Spitalfields
  25. Colin O’Brien’s Children On The Street
  26. This Is The Modern World
  27. A Concert To Save Norton Folgate
  28. Passmore Edwards’ East End Libraries
  29. Malcolm Tremain’s Spitalfields, Then & Now
  30. Malcolm Tremain’s City & East End

March 2016

  1. A Little Journey With Viscountess Boudica
  2. More Of Peta Bridle’s London Etchings
  3. Visit Giorgione In Clapton
  4. Proud Parmiter’s Pensioners
  5. Save The Queen’s Head In Limehouse!
  6. Maurice Sills, Cathedral Treasure
  7. Easter Procession In Stepney
  8. Malcolm Tremain’s Spitalfields
  9. Hackney Mosaic Project At London Zoo
  10. So Long, Bedell Coram
  11. John Claridge At Whitechapel Bell Foundry
  12. Trashy’s London Statuary
  13. Terry Barns, Knot Tyer
  14. Albert Stratton, Pigeon Racer
  15. The Last Spitalfields Market Cat
  16. The Door In Cornhill
  17. Portraits From The Surma Centre
  18. St Patrick’s Day In Bethnal Green
  19. Amy Cooper’s Needlework
  20. The East London Group In Southend
  21. The East London Group Rediscovered
  22. Room To Let In Old Aldgate
  23. City Of London Churches
  24. The Old River Thames
  25. The Alphabet Of London
  26. A Model Of London, 1840
  27. My Spring Shirt
  28. Spring Flowers At Bow Cemetery
  29. Wonderful London Pubs
  30. Some Sights Of Wonderful London
  31. People Of Wonderful London
  32. Charles Keeping, Illustrator

February 2016

  1. Where Handel & Hendrix Were Neighbours
  2. John Gillman’s Bus Ticket Collection
  3. Some Working People by John Claridge
  4. A Couple Of Pints With John Claridge
  5. John Claridge’s Signs, Type & Graphics
  6. Cafe Society By John Claridge
  7. John Claridge Along The Thames
  8. John Claridge’s Nation Of Shopkeepers
  9. A Book Of John Claridge’s EAST END
  10. Merlin The Raven At The Tower Of London
  11. The Broderers Of St Paul’s Cathedral
  12. Streets Of Old London
  13. At The RHS Spring Flower Show
  14. Bob Mazzer, Tube Photographer
  15. Beigels Already
  16. At Arthur Beale
  17. Viscountess Boudica’s Valentines
  18. Vinegar Valentines
  19. A Letter To The Times
  20. Pamela Cilia, Truman’s Bottling Girl
  21. A Comic Alphabet
  22. Matt Walters, The Human Statue
  23. At Clapton Beauty Parlour
  24. Street Life In London
  25. George Cruikshank’s Almanack, 1835
  26. A Shadow Over Bunhill Fields
  27. Views Of Christ Church, Spitalfields
  28. The Creeping Plague Of Ghastly Facadism
  29. John Thomas Smith’s Antient Topography

January 2016

  1. Oranges & Lemons Churches
  2. The Cries Of Old London
  3. Beware The Curse Of Norton Folgate!
  4. At The London Chest Hospital
  5. The Queen Mother’s Rebel Cousin
  6. In The Debtors’ Cell
  7. Trinity Green Needs Friends
  8. Philippe Debeerst At Malplaquet House
  9. Sam Jevon, A Different Person
  10. Melis Marziano, Pizza Chef
  11. Agnese Sanvito’s Toilets At Dawn
  12. At The Lord’s Convenience
  13. The Wallpapers Of Fournier St
  14. Schrödinger, Shoreditch Church Cat
  15. An Offer To Buy Norton Folgate
  16. Snowdrops At The Physic Garden
  17. Standing Up To The Mayor Of London
  18. The Holland Estate Is Saved
  19. The First Rhubarb Of The Season
  20. Simon Pettet’s Delft Tiles
  21. At The Blessing Of The River
  22. On Sunday Mornings
  23. The Roman Ruin At The Hairdresser
  24. The First Hundred Penguin Books
  25. William Smith & Charles Eaton, Forgers
  26. The Ceremony Of The Baddeley Cake
  27. The Bakers In Widegate St
  28. A New Year Drink At Dirty Dick’s
  29. The Spitalfields Weaver
  30. Start Your Own Blog In 2016
  31. One Day Young

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December 2015

  1. So Long, Pam Chawla (Mama Thai)
  2. A Night At The Beigel Bakery
  3. On The East End Milk Round At Christmas
  4. So Long, Mike Henbrey
  5. A Walk Through Walter Thornbury’s London
  6. The Gentle Author’s Childhood Christmas
  7. Rodney Archer’s Christmas
  8. On Christmas Eve In The City
  9. At Smithfield On Christmas Eve
  10. David Hoffman & Crisis At Christmas
  11. Midwinter At Christ Church
  12. At The Lego Exhibition
  13. Phil Maxwell At The London Hospital
  14. Len Hoffman, Sports Coach
  15. Joe Baden & Open Book
  16. Bobby Cummines, Not A Gangster
  17. Sam Nicholls Of Nicholls & Clarke
  18. Terry Jackson, Samaritan
  19. A Map Of William Shakespeare’s Shordiche
  20. Old London Bridges
  21. The What Pub Next? Club
  22. Signs Of Old London
  23. Contemplating Christ Church, Spitalfields
  24. Maria Pellicci’s Christmas Ravioli
  25. News From Norton Folgate
  26. At Fieldgate St Great Synagogue
  27. Announcement Of Rodney Archer’s Funeral
  28. Happy Birthday Broadway Bookshop!
  29. The Players Of St Peter
  30. The Boar’s Head Parade
  31. Marian Monas’ Portraits

November 2015

  1. Shopping In Old London
  2. Introducing The Cries Of London
  3. William Matthews, Electrician, Waiter & Gym Instructor
  4. Forgotten Corners Of Old London
  5. All Change At Maggs Bros Ltd
  6. Annie Macpherson & The Gutter Children
  7. The Lonely Streets Of Old London
  8. The Gentle Author’s Cries Of London
  9. So Long, Rodney Archer
  10. The Long Nights Of Old London
  11. Nicholas Sack, Photographer Of The City
  12. Frank Foster, Shirt Maker To The Stars
  13. Liam O’Farrell’s London Markets
  14. My Quilt Of Many Colours
  15. Hogarth At Bart’s Hospital
  16. Christ Church Crypt Restored
  17. Colin O’Brien Returns to Clerkenwell
  18. Sandra & Bob: Two Film Portraits
  19. At Fishmongers’ Hall
  20. Derrick Porter’s Voices Of Hoxton
  21. In Praise Of Stench
  22. The Stepney School Strike
  23. David Hoffman’s East End
  24. Bishopsgate Goodsyard Debate
  25. Jenny Lewis’ Hackney Artists & Makers
  26. Maurice Evans, Pyrotechnician
  27. Paintings From Doreen Fletcher’s Archive
  28. At Stationers’ Hall
  29. William Oglethorpe, Cheese Maker
  30. John Thomas Smith’s Rural Cottages

October 2015

  1. Three Events To Delight You Next Week
  2. The Dead Man In Clerkenwell
  3. At Tjaden’s Electrical Service Shop
  4. Tony Hawkins & The Cries Of London
  5. Sarah Ainslie’s Wardrobe Portraits
  6. Charles Jones, Photographer & Gardener
  7. Harold Burdekin’s London Night
  8. Doreen Fletcher’s East End
  9. Ancient Graffiti At The Tower Of London
  10. At Maison Dellys, Columbia Rd
  11. Charlie Caisey Of Billingsgate Market
  12. Charles Booth’s East End Revisited
  13. The Ravenous Appetite Of Mr Pussy
  14. Nicholas Borden’s Solo Show
  15. London Market Chit-Chats
  16. Out Partying With The Bunny Girls Again
  17. Publication Day For Baddeley Brothers
  18. The Caslon Letter Foundry
  19. Return To Trinity Green
  20. The East End Suffragette Map
  21. My Night Out With The Bunny Girls
  22. Tom Fellows, London’s Oldest Cabby
  23. Some Recent Blogs
  24. On The SS Robin
  25. The Lexicography Of Cockney Slang
  26. William Whiffin’s London
  27. At Queens Market
  28. From The Lives Of Commercial Stationers
  29. Scars Of War

September 2015

  1. The Baddeley Brothers Book
  2. Roland Collins, Photographer
  3. So Long, Roland Collins
  4. At The Unveiling Of The Huguenot Plaque
  5. At The Harvest Festival Of The Sea
  6. The Hackney Whipping Post
  7. Portraits Of South Asian Writers
  8. Samuel Pepys At St Olave’s
  9. Makers Of East London
  10. At Haggerston Pool
  11. At Walter Reginald Ltd, Leather Merchants
  12. At The Pearlies’ Harvest Festival
  13. Luke Clennell’s London Melodies
  14. The Tragical Death Of An Apple Pie
  15. Colin O’Brien’s Chatsworth Rd
  16. Syd Shelton’s Rock Against Racism
  17. Paul Bommer’s Huguenot Plaque
  18. Eulogy For Elaine Dunford
  19. Hop Picking At Lamberhurst
  20. The Life Of Frederick Jury
  21. The Ruins Of The Fruit & Wool Exchange
  22. Mychael Barratt’s Mile End Mural
  23. Among The Thames Lightermen
  24. The Curious Legacy Of Francis Wheatley
  25. On 7th September 1940
  26. At Billingsgate Roman Bathhouse
  27. Cries Of London Woodcuts
  28. Phil Maxwell In Bethnal Green Rd
  29. A Plaque For Nina Bawden
  30. A New Scheme For Norton Folgate

August 2015

  1. At Samuel Pepys’ Library
  2. At Sandwich
  3. A Tour Of The Cabbies’ Shelters
  4. Spitalfields Photographed In Kodachrome
  5. Graham Kennedy, The Directions Man
  6. The Oldest Tree in Bethnal Green
  7. Tim Hunkin, Inventor Extraordinaire
  8. One Last Drink At The Gun
  9. London’s Ancient Topography
  10. Portraits Of Holland Estate Residents
  11. Mr Pussy, Water Creature
  12. Sixth Annual Report
  13. At A E Batchelor Ltd, Saddlers
  14. Summer at Bow Cemetery
  15. Old London Trade Cards
  16. At JC Motors, Haggerston
  17. David Prescott Of Commercial St
  18. At Victoria Park Model Steam Boat Club
  19. Old Mother Hubbard & Her Wonderful Dog
  20. Hop Picking Photographs
  21. Roy Wild, Hop Picker
  22. King Of The Bottletops At The Farm
  23. Barge Racing On The Thames Estuary
  24. Beano Season In The East End
  25. So Long, Lennie Saunders
  26. Closed House Weekend
  27. Ruth Franklin, Sculptor
  28. Mr Pussy In The Dog Days Of August
  29. Scything On Walthamstow Marshes
  30. In City Of London Churchyards
  31. Roy Wild, Van Boy & Driver

July 2015

  1. Remembering East End Jewish Bookshops
  2. At Cable St Community Gardens
  3. At St Michael & All Angels, Shoreditch
  4. The Huguenots of Rochester
  5. The Spitalfields Roman Woman
  6. Swan Upping With The Vintners’ Company
  7. Derrick Porter, Poet Of Hoxton
  8. The Last Days Of London
  9. Vote For The George Tavern!
  10. Who Will Help Me Publish An Illustrated History Of The Cries Of London?
  11. Norton Folgate Is Saved!
  12. D-Day For Norton Folgate
  13. The Seven Ages Of Rodney Archer
  14. Kirby’s Eccentric Museum, 1820
  15. Joining Hands On Sunday In Norton Folgate
  16. A Portrait of Gary Arber by Sebastian Whyte
  17. Colin O’Brien & His Leica Camera
  18. Visit The Old Naval College At Greenwich
  19. An Introduction To East End Garden History
  20. The Antiquarian Bookshops of Old London
  21. Mike Henbrey’s Collection Of Dividers
  22. The Cockney Novelists
  23. Dicky Lumskull’s Ramble Through London
  24. Mike Henbrey, Collector Of Books, Ephemera & Tools
  25. Join Hands To Save Norton Folgate
  26. Vinegar Valentines For Bad Tradesmen
  27. Mike Henbrey’s Vinegar Valentines
  28. At Tim Hunkin’s Novelty Automation
  29. Don’t Do It Magazine
  30. The Houndsditch Macaroni
  31. So Long, Edward Greenfield

June 2015

  1. Inside Spitalfields’ Oldest Building
  2. David Garrick In The East End
  3. A Petition Against The Goodsyard Towers
  4. At St Pancras Old Churchyard
  5. Visit Norton Folgate’s Victorian Warehouses
  6. Restoration At Wilton’s Music Hall
  7. Nik Strangelove’s Brick Lane
  8. Human Remains At Christ Church
  9. The Huguenot Map Of Spitalfields Unveiled
  10. Aminul Hoque & The Paradox Of British Bangladeshi Identity
  11. At Midsummer On Primrose Hill
  12. At The Launch Of London Life
  13. Alice Pattullo’s Alphabet
  14. The Man Who Photographed Car Crashes
  15. The Photographer From Clerkenwell
  16. At Spitalfields Oldest Family Business
  17. Ubiquitous Unique
  18. Andrew Scott’s East End, Then & Now
  19. More Ancient Mulberry Trees
  20. The Huguenots Of Soho
  21. Launch Of Colin O’Brien’s London Life
  22. Argotopolis, The Map Of London Slang
  23. Ben Rea, Illustrator
  24. Susannah Dalbiac’s Almanack, 1776
  25. Andrew Scott’s East End Photographs
  26. Caroline Gilfillan & Andrew Scott’s East End
  27. Roy Clark In Norton Folgate
  28. William Anthony, The Last Of The Charlies
  29. At Dr Johnson’s House
  30. Happy 100th Birthday, Max Levitas!

May 2015

  1. Lucinda Rogers In Tottenham
  2. At The Fan Museum
  3. From The Warner Textile Archive
  4. At The House Mill
  5. Spitalfields Open Gardens
  6. Franta Belsky’s Sculpture In Bethnal Green
  7. Dan Cruickshank’s Photos – Then & Now
  8. Three Ancient Mulberry Trees
  9. Dan Cruickshank’s Spitalfields Photographs
  10. The Revival Of The Vegetable Sermon
  11. The Man Beneath Trafalgar Square
  12. Good News For The Marquis Of Lansdowne!
  13. In Search Of Culpeper’s Spitalfields
  14. The Principal Operations Of Weaving, 1748
  15. Portrait Of Sally Flood
  16. Upon The Origins Of Baddeleys
  17. Last Call For Huguenots!
  18. The Cats Of Elder St
  19. At Tim Hunkin’s Workshop
  20. In Old Finsbury
  21. How To Write A Blog
  22. The Stoke Newington Mulberry
  23. John James Baddeley, Die Sinker
  24. More Of Janet Brooke’s City Churches
  25. Happy Birthday, Colin O’Brien!
  26. Elegy For Paul’s Tea Stall
  27. Nicholas Borden’s Spring Paintings
  28. The Oldest Mulberry In Britain
  29. The Punch & Judy Festival in Covent Garden
  30. Clare Winsten’s Drawings At 31 Fournier St
  31. Hustings For Bethnal Green & Bow

April 2015

  1. At Barn The Spoon’s Green Wood Guild
  2. The Whitechapel Mulberry
  3. Spiegelhalters Is Saved
  4. Huguenot Summer
  5. The Dalston Mulberry
  6. Drivers In The Eighties
  7. The Haggerston Mulberry
  8. The Oldest Tree In The East End
  9. Return Of The Monoliths
  10. In Search Of William Shakespeare’s London
  11. Sir George’s Residence for Respectable Girls
  12. Peta Bridle’s London Etchings
  13. Neville Turner Returns To Elder St
  14. Squatters Return To Elder St
  15. John Thomas Smith’s Remarkable Beggars
  16. In Search Of The Rope Makers Of Stepney
  17. Holland Estate Portraits
  18. Bluebells At Bow
  19. Dan Cruickshank’s Tales Of Norton Folgate
  20. The Lost World Of The Alleys
  21. East End Blossom Time
  22. At The Holland Estate
  23. Auriculas Of Spitalfields
  24. A Walk Down Commercial Rd
  25. At Caird & Rayner
  26. At Time For Tea
  27. At Boughton House
  28. Viscountess Boudica’s Easter Celebrations
  29. The Inescapable Melancholy Of Phone Boxes
  30. John Thomas Smith’s Antiquities Of London

March 2015

  1. London’s Oldest Buns
  2. At The Ceremony Of The Widow’s Sixpence
  3. Mia Sabel, Saddler
  4. In Old Bow
  5. So Long, Sclater St Yard Market
  6. John Thomas Smith’s Ancient Topography
  7. Last Days At K C Continental Stores
  8. Charles Goss In Norton Folgate
  9. The Trees Of Spitalfields Are Saved
  10. The Return Of My Right Arm
  11. Joe Lawrence, Traditional Butcher & Writer
  12. David Hoffman At St Botolph’s In Colour
  13. Under St Leonard’s, Shoreditch
  14. So Long, Blustons Of Kentish Town
  15. Night On Brick Lane
  16. Stories Of Norton Folgate, Old & New
  17. Colin O’Brien, Photographer Of London Life
  18. Please Help Me To Publish A Beautiful Book Of Colin O’Brien’s London Life
  19. Nippers At The National Portrait Gallery
  20. Capper & Sons Of Gracechurch St
  21. Save The Trees Of Spitalfields
  22. Clive Murphy & Joan Lauder, The Cat Lady
  23. The Metropolitan Machinists’ Co, 1905
  24. Tea With Victor & Marilyn
  25. Yet More From Philip Mernick’s Collection
  26. So Long, Alfons Jedrzejewski Of Puma Court
  27. Sophie Charalambous, Artist
  28. Adam Dant’s Stories Of Hackney Old & New
  29. Rodney Archer Plays Edward II
  30. Dan Cruickshank In Norton Folgate
  31. The Hackney Yearbook 1906
  32. Taking Liberties In Norton Folgate

February 2015

  1. So Long, Baldacci’s Of Petticoat Lane
  2. Ebbe Sadolin’s London
  3. At The Duke Of Wellington
  4. More From Philip Mernick’s Collection
  5. Last Orders At The Gun
  6. In A Well In Norton Folgate
  7. The Gentle Author Broke An Arm Yesterday
  8. Mr Pickwick In Brick Lane
  9. The Ancient Curse Of Norton Folgate
  10. Portraits From Philip Mernick’s Collection
  11. Christopher Marlowe In Norton Folgate
  12. The Metropolitan Machinists’ Co
  13. Dickens At The City Of London Theatre, Norton Folgate
  14. Inside The Nicholls & Clarke Buildings
  15. My Love Letter To London
  16. Lush Life In Norton Folgate
  17. Thomas Barnes, Photographer
  18. Love Tokens From The Thames
  19. The Lost Hamlet Of Ratcliff
  20. Stephen Killick’s Truman’s Beer Labels
  21. Save Norton Folgate
  22. Sandle Bros, Manufacturing Stationers
  23. Tim Hunkin, Cartoonist & Engineer
  24. Philip Mernick’s East London Shopfronts
  25. Old Truman’s Beer Labels
  26. Textile Designs At Rodney Archer’s House
  27. Snowdrops At The Chelsea Physic Garden
  28. At The Annual Grimaldi Service

January 2015

  1. Lucinda Rogers’ Cards
  2. Frost Bros, Rope Makers & Yarn Spinners
  3. Graham Kennedy, Directions Man
  4. An East End Remembrance
  5. My Coin Collection
  6. Tony Garrett, Porter, Postman & Chauffeur
  7. Adam Dant & The Budge Row Bibliotheque
  8. The Cabbies’ Shelters Of Old London
  9. East End Entertainers Of 1922
  10. John Hall, Accordionist & Ambulance Man
  11. More Of Paul Sandby’s Cries Of London
  12. Lindsey Garratt, Chairman Of New Era Estate Tenants Association
  13. At The Model Engineering Exhibition
  14. George Cruikshank’s Sunday In London
  15. Nicholas Borden’s New Paintings
  16. Paul Sandby’s Cries Of London, 1760
  17. Charles Booth in Spitalfields
  18. At Rinkoff’s Bakery
  19. Libby Hall’s Dogs Of Old London
  20. CR Ashbee In The East End
  21. Sarsaparilla & Mineral Water Sellers
  22. The Last Sailmakers’ Loft In The East End
  23. Save Spiegelhalters!
  24. At The Cutting Of The Baddeley Cake
  25. Spitalfields In Kodachrome
  26. Eleanor Crow’s East End Ironmongers
  27. Objecting To The Goodsyard Proposals
  28. How To Write A Blog That People Will Want To Read
  29. Doors Of Spitalfields
  30. In Search Of Val Perrin’s Brick Lane
  31. Part 3. The Life Of Peter Stanley Brown

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