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Spitalfields Life

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December 2022

  1. Amy Merrick At Dennis Severs’ House
  2. Remembering Gavin Stamp
  3. A Room To Let In Old Aldgate
  4. The Gentle Author’s Pantomime Season
  5. David Hoffman & Crisis At Christmas
  6. Boxing Day Book Sale
  7. The Gentle Author’s Christmas
  8. At Pellicci’s Christmas Party
  9. Maria Pellicci’s Christmas Ravioli
  10. Fritz Wegner’s Christmas Plates
  11. Viscountess Boudica’s Christmas
  12. The Haggerston Nobody Knows
  13. Christmas At St Hilda’s, 1975
  14. Christmas Baubles
  15. The Robin’s Christmas
  16. Midwinter At Christ Church, Spitalfields
  17. Robson Cezar’s Whitechapel Houses, 2022
  18. Charles Goss’ Vanishing City
  19. Chris Kelly’s Columbia School Portraits, 1996
  20. Night At Spitalfields Market
  21. Snowmen Of Yesteryear
  22. Chris Brown, Illustrator
  23. The Scholar & His Cat, Pangur Bán
  24. At St Paul’s Cathedral In Old London
  25. Reading At Burley Fisher Books
  26. Made In London
  27. Francis Wheatley’s Cries Of London
  28. Bloomsbury Jamboree 2022
  29. In Anticipation Of The Festive Season
  30. Piotr Frac, Stained Glass Artist
  31. The Curry Chefs Of Brick Lane

November 2022

  1. The Drawing Rooms Of Old London
  2. David Pearson’s Lecture
  3. The Cries Of London Lecture
  4. The Map Of East End Independents
  5. The Shops Of Old London
  6. The London Bell Foundry Lecture
  7. The Roundels Of Spitalfields
  8. Happy Birthday East End Trades Guild!
  9. Burdekin’s London Nights
  10. Martin White, Textile Consultant
  11. The Antiquarian Bookshops Of Old London
  12. The Executions Of Old London
  13. Dorothy Rendell’s East End Portraits
  14. John James Baddeley, Engraver, Die Sinker & Lord Mayor
  15. Samuel & Elizabeth Pepys At St Olave’s
  16. Clive Murphy, Phillumenist
  17. The Forgotten Corners Of Old London
  18. The Tragical Death Of An Apple Pie
  19. We Make An Offer For The Bell Foundry
  20. Peta Bridle’s London Viewpoints
  21. Women Of Hackney At Work
  22. Women Of Bethnal Green At Work
  23. Lew Lessen, Barber
  24. Remembering Gerald Marks
  25. In Bishopsgate, 1838
  26. Maurice Evans, Pyrotechnician
  27. David Hoffman In Cheshire St
  28. Save Simpsons Chop House!
  29. Mat Hughes’ East End, 1984
  30. Marie Lenclos, Painter

October 2022

  1. A Dead Man In Clerkenwell
  2. Upon The Nature Of Horror
  3. At The Two Puddings
  4. Dennis & Christine Reeve, Walnut Farmers
  5. Jacqueline Billings Of Wellclose Square
  6. Last Call For My Writing Course In November!
  7. Remembering Rose Strowman
  8. Nathaniel Kornbluth, Etcher
  9. Henry Silk’s Still Life
  10. Peri Parkes, Artist
  11. A Ramble Through Long Forgotten London
  12. Dee Tocqueville, Lollipop Lady
  13. On Night Patrol With Lew Tassell
  14. The Mind Keeps The Score
  15. Dr Margaret Clegg, Keeper Of Human Remains
  16. Daniele Lamarche’s East End
  17. At Paul Pindar’s House
  18. The Canal Club Is Saved!
  19. Frank Derrett’s West End
  20. Alfred Daniels’ Murals
  21. At Old St Pancras Churchyard
  22. Tony Jack, Truman’s Brewery Chauffeur
  23. The Harvest Festival Of The Sea
  24. The Nights Of Old London
  25. My Quilt
  26. Max Levitas & The Battle Of Cable St
  27. The Whitechapel Bell Foundry Is For Sale
  28. At The Regis Snack Bar
  29. Around Billingsgate
  30. Betty Levy Of Petticoat Lane

September 2022

  1. Rob Ryan & The East End Trades Guild
  2. Frank Merton Atkins’ City Churches
  3. The Return Of Sue Hadley
  4. Adam Dant, Cartographer Extraordinaire
  5. A Flight In A 1939 Tiger Moth
  6. Geoff Perrior’s Spitalfields
  7. Colin Ross, Docker
  8. My Coin Collection
  9. Lesley Lewis, The French House
  10. At Mile End Place
  11. So Long, Bethnal Green Gasometers
  12. The Spitalfields Talks
  13. The Tombs Of Old London
  14. Blackie, The Last Spitalfields Market Cat
  15. Huguenot Soho
  16. So Long, Harry Landis
  17. At Westminster Abbey
  18. Has Anybody Here Seen Betty?
  19. Cruikshank At The Tower Of London
  20. At Abbey Wood
  21. In City Churchyards
  22. Victorian Tradesmen Scraps
  23. Women Of The Old East End
  24. Old East End Letterheads & Receipts
  25. Ainsworth Broughton, Upholsterer
  26. At Kelmscott House, Hammersmith
  27. Thomas Bewick’s Dogs
  28. Thomas Bewick’s Cat
  29. At Morden College
  30. Andrew Scott’s East End

August 2022

  1. The Mystery Of Arthur Cousins’ Printers
  2. The Facades Of Spitalfields
  3. Two Bank Holiday Visitors From Ilfracombe
  4. A Review In The Oldie
  5. Chris Kelly’s Cable St Gardeners
  6. William Caslon, Letter Founder
  7. Thirteenth Annual Report
  8. At Waltham Abbey
  9. Philip Lindsey Clark’s Sculptures In Widegate St
  10. At Embassy Electrical Supplies
  11. Dicky Lumskul’s Ramble Through London
  12. Marie Iles, Machinist
  13. Fiona Skrine Remembers The Sit-In At Spital Sq
  14. So Long, Mark Girouard
  15. At Sutton House
  16. Roy Wild, Hop Picker
  17. Hopping Portraits
  18. Hopping Photographs
  19. Tony Hall, Photographer
  20. Whistler In The East End
  21. Ricardo Cinalli, Artist
  22. Watermen’s Stairs
  23. Chris Miles’ East End
  24. At Walthamstow Pump House
  25. A Stranger’s Guide To London
  26. At Stationers’ Hall
  27. A Fireplace Of Delft Tiles In Fournier St
  28. Harry T Harmer, Artist
  29. Real Life For Children, 1819
  30. Chris Georgiou, Tailor
  31. A Couple Of Pints With John Claridge

July 2022

  1. The Return Of The Gentle Author’s Writing Course
  2. My Tenterground
  3. At Waterbeach
  4. At The Caslon Letter Foundry
  5. At Grenson’s Shoe Factory
  6. Schrodinger Wants To Recruit Me
  7. Swan Upping On The Thames
  8. Gadsdons Of Brushfield St
  9. From Andy Strowman’s Album
  10. David Johnson’s Cafes
  11. David Johnson’s East End
  12. Dorothy Annan’s Murals
  13. Whitechapel Lads
  14. George Parrin, Ice Cream Seller
  15. A Cat In The Dog Days
  16. John Claridge’s Other World
  17. At Chatham
  18. Dr Syntax In London
  19. Harry Levenson, Bookmaker
  20. East End Desire Paths
  21. East End Shopfronts
  22. At John Keats’ House
  23. The Alleys Of Old London
  24. Townhouse Open Exhibition 2022
  25. Remembering Dennis Severs
  26. George Cruikshank’s London Summer
  27. A Plaque For The Matchgirls
  28. In Old Deptford
  29. A Few Diversions By John Claridge
  30. So Long, Old Church Nursery School
  31. Danny Tabi, Furrier

June 2022

  1. The Custom House Is Saved
  2. Neville Turner Of Elder St
  3. Audrey Kneller Of Elder St
  4. Harry Landis, Actor
  5. Linda Carney, Machinist
  6. Adam Dant’s Map Of Chaucer’s London
  7. Bloomsbury Jamboree Tomorrow!
  8. East End Beanos
  9. Twenty New Paintings By Nicholas Borden
  10. Six Days Left To Save Brick Lane!
  11. Grayson Perry’s End Of Covid Bell
  12. People On The Street & A Cat
  13. Visit Culpeper’s Spitalfields
  14. Rob Ryan, Papercut Artist & Designer
  15. A Walk With Philip Cunningham
  16. At Eastbury Manor
  17. Doreen Fletcher’s New Paintings
  18. Midsummer Bloomsbury Jamboree Lectures
  19. Just Another Day With John Claridge
  20. Midsummer Bloomsbury Jamboree
  21. Travellers’ Children In London Fields
  22. In The Lavender Fields Of Surrey
  23. Battle For Brick Lane, 1978
  24. Viscountess Boudica For The Ukraine!
  25. At Mavis Bullwinkle’s Birthday Party
  26. Carters Steam Fair For Sale
  27. Working People & A Dog
  28. DC Lew Tassell At The Silver Jubilee
  29. Royal Jubilee Bells
  30. So Long, Stan Jones

May 2022

  1. Surma Centre Portraits
  2. William Shakespeare In Spitalfields
  3. John Claridge’s East End Portraits
  4. Charles Dickens in Shadwell & Limehouse
  5. Stepney’s Lost Mansions
  6. Where The White Chapel Once Stood
  7. From Old Bedlam To Liverpool St
  8. Gillian Tindall On The Elizabeth Line
  9. The Crossrail Drillers
  10. Visit The Secret Gardens Of Spitalfields
  11. John Claridge’s Spent Moments
  12. Jimmy Huddart, Spitalfields Market Porter
  13. The Inescapable Melancholy Of Phone Boxes
  14. Mavis Bullwinkle, Secretary
  15. Happy 90th Birthday Mavis Bullwinkle!
  16. John Stow’s Spittle Fields
  17. Signs, Poster, Typography & Graphics
  18. Harry Thomas, Baker & Musician
  19. At St Augustine’s Tower
  20. George Dodd’s Spitalfields
  21. Thomas Fairchild, Gardener of Hoxton
  22. At Fishmongers’ Hall
  23. Sylvester Mittee, Welterweight Champion
  24. Mortlake Jugs
  25. John Claridge’s Cafe Society
  26. How To Demolish A Listed Building
  27. George Cruikshank’s Punch & Judy
  28. Mr Punch’s 360th Birthday
  29. James Leman, Silk Designer
  30. Along The Thames With John Claridge
  31. The Highdays & Holidays Of Old London

April 2022

  1. On May Day
  2. Ron McCormick’s Spitalfields & Whitechapel
  3. At Eel Pie Island
  4. Colin O’Brien’s Clerkenwell Car Crashes
  5. John Thomas Smith’s Antiquities Of Old London
  6. Bobby Prentice, Waterman & Lighterman
  7. John Claridge’s East End Shops
  8. Robson Cezar’s Whitechapel Houses & Corner Shops
  9. The Tower Of Old London
  10. Kevin O’Brien, Retired Roadsweeper
  11. Darton’s Nursery Songs
  12. The Invigilators Of Spitalfields
  13. In Old Bow
  14. Viscountess Boudica’s Easter
  15. Bluebells At Bow Cemetery
  16. Easter Procession In Stepney
  17. Tony Bock’s East Enders
  18. The Ceremony Of The Widow’s Sixpence
  19. Udham Singh, The Patient Assassin
  20. Vera Hullyer, Parishioner of St Dunstan’s
  21. East End Blossom Time
  22. Adam Dant’s New Studio
  23. The East London Waterworks Scandal
  24. At The Charterhouse
  25. A Walk Along The Black Path
  26. Jeffrey Johnson’s Favourite Signs
  27. Sally Flood, Poet
  28. Val Perrin’s Brick Lane
  29. At Stephen Walters & Sons, Silk Weavers
  30. Three Antiques Market Treasures

March 2022

  1. People From Spitalfields’ History
  2. At Billingsgate Roman Bathhouse
  3. The Launch Of The Gentle Author’s Tour Of Spitalfields & A Letter
  4. The Gentle Author’s Wapping Pub Crawl
  5. At Speakers’ Corner
  6. On Mothering Sunday
  7. Bishopsgate Tavern Tokens
  8. Carol Burns, Dogsbody
  9. Spitalfields Market In The Eighties
  10. At Goldsmiths’ Hall
  11. At Sandys Row Synagogue
  12. Laurie Allen Of Petticoat Lane
  13. Chris Thompson’s Lonely Streets
  14. Jack Corbett, London’s Oldest Fireman
  15. The Doors Of Old London
  16. Bud Flanagan In Spitalfields
  17. Hogarth At St Bartholomew’s Hospital
  18. Ken Sequin’s Badge Collection
  19. Spires Of City Churches
  20. My Spring Shirt
  21. A Final Push!
  22. Jonathan Madden’s East End Pub Paintings
  23. At The Halal Restaurant
  24. At M & G Hardware & Ironmongery
  25. East End Women Protest
  26. Old Spitalfields In Colour
  27. The Auriculas Of Spitalfields
  28. In Celebration Of Cockneys
  29. Pearl Binder, Artist
  30. Milly Abrahams, Dressmaker
  31. At Rinkoff’s Bakery
  32. Charles Spurgeon’s Londoners

February 2022

  1. At Taj Stores
  2. In The Rotunda At The Museum Of London
  3. Joe McLaren, Illustrator
  4. Spring Bulbs At Bow Cemetery
  5. Whitechapel’s Theatrical Terrace Under Threat
  6. So Long, Billy Dove OBE
  7. At KTS, The Corner
  8. Andy Strowman, Poet Of Stepney
  9. Crudgie, Motorbicycle Courier
  10. The Weathervanes Of Old London
  11. Richard Dighton’s City Characters
  12. A Walk Through Time In Spitalfields Market
  13. Spitalfields Market Portraits, 1991
  14. Save Spitalfields From The Serial Killer!
  15. Vinegar Valentines
  16. At The Custom House Public Inquiry
  17. The Staircases Of Old London
  18. Peter Bellerby, Globemaker
  19. The Ruin At The Hairdresser
  20. Lorna Brunstein of Black Lion Yard
  21. Luke Clennell’s London Melodies
  22. The Principal Operations of Weaving, 1748
  23. Dennis Anthony’s Petticoat Lane
  24. Lewis Lupton In Spitalfields
  25. Cockney Cats
  26. At God’s Convenience
  27. At William Gee, Haberdashers
  28. So Long, Leonard Fenton

January 2022

  1. From Shoreditch To Paddington
  2. From Limehouse To Shoreditch
  3. The East London Group & Photography
  4. Save The George Tavern
  5. Tony Bock On The Railway
  6. Stephen Watts, Poet
  7. The Romance Of Old Bishopsgate
  8. At Hungry Tummy
  9. Dick Turpin, Highwayman & Butcher
  10. At Dirty Dick’s
  11. Moyra Peralta’s Portraits
  12. In Old Globetown
  13. Ann Sotheran’s West End Champions
  14. At Nichols Bros, Woodturners
  15. The Metropolitan Machinists’ Company
  16. My Winter Bulbs
  17. More Furniture Trade Cards Of Old London
  18. The Fogs Of Old London
  19. A New Future For The Custom House
  20. Peta Bridle’s East End Sketchbook
  21. Billy & Charley’s Shadwell Shams
  22. Chaplin In Spitalfields
  23. The Manhole Covers Of Spitalfields
  24. Margaret Rope’s East End Saints
  25. Old Trees in Greenwich
  26. Taverns Of Long Forgotten London
  27. Epilogue To The Ratcliffe Highway Murders
  28. A New Sculpture For Frank Dobson Sq
  29. Malcolm Tremain’s Spitalfields In Colour
  30. The Gates Of The City Of London
  31. January Book Sale

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December 2021

  1. Chapter 9. A Shallow Grave
  2. My Panto Years
  3. The Ghosts Of Old London
  4. Christmas Glass Baubles
  5. Chapter 8. A Verdict
  6. Chapter 7. Three Wise Magistrates
  7. The Gentle Author’s Christmas
  8. Chapter 6. The Prime Suspect
  9. The Robin’s Christmas Eve
  10. Chapter 5. Indescribable Panic
  11. Scenes From Dennis Severs’ House
  12. Fritz Wegner’s Christmas Plates
  13. Chapter 4. New Sanguinary Atrocities
  14. Spitalfields Parties of Yesteryear
  15. The Dinners Of Old London
  16. Chapter 3. The Burial Of The Victims
  17. Robson Cezar’s Whitechapel Houses For Sale
  18. Readings At Midwinter
  19. The Lives Of George Lansbury & Will Crooks
  20. Walk Through Time With The Gentle Author
  21. The Lantern Slides Of Old London
  22. Chapter 2. Horrid Murder
  23. Matyas Selmeczi, Silhouette Artist
  24. Matilda Moreton & The Cries Of London
  25. Chapter 1. The Death Of A Linen Draper
  26. Maria Pellicci’s Christmas Ravioli
  27. George Cruikshank’s Festive Season
  28. Robson Cezar’s Wooden Houses From Whitechapel
  29. My East End Vernacular Lecture
  30. Sights Of Wonderful London
  31. The Return Of Sail Cargo To The Thames

November 2021

  1. The Thames Of Old London
  2. Marion Elliot, Printmaker & Illustrator
  3. Bloomsbury Jamboree Lectures & Readings
  4. Bloomsbury Jamboree 2021
  5. The Language Of Beer
  6. Autumn At Spitalfields City Farm
  7. David Garrick In Aldgate
  8. David Carpenter, Ocularist
  9. The Bread, Cake & Biscuit Walk
  10. The Fogs & Smogs Of Old London
  11. The Queen Mother’s Rebel Cousin
  12. Jack London, Photographer
  13. Maria Pellicci, Meatball Queen Of Bethnal Green
  14. How To Eat A Pomegranate
  15. George Dickinson, Sales Manager
  16. At The Drapers’ Hall
  17. Eleanor Crow’s ‘Step Inside’
  18. So Long, Huguenots Of Spitalfields
  19. Celebrating The Stepney School Strike
  20. Henry Mayhew’s Street Traders
  21. Tony Hall’s Shops
  22. Kyriacos Hadjikyriacou, Pleater
  23. So Long, Doris Halsall
  24. The Nights Of Old London
  25. The Night City By W S Graham
  26. Burdekin’s London Nights
  27. Maurice Evans, Firework Collector
  28. Philip Marriage’s Firework Labels
  29. So Long, Ivan Kingsley
  30. Vivian Betts Of The Primrose

October 2021

  1. A Dead Man In Clerkenwell
  2. Luke Clennell’s Dance of Death
  3. Geraldine Beskin, Witch
  4. Upon The Nature Of Gothic Horror
  5. The Wallpaper Of Spitalfields
  6. In The Charnel House
  7. Terry Smith, Envelope Cutter
  8. At Newmans Stationery
  9. Spitalfields City Farm Calendar
  10. Alan Dein’s East End Shops
  11. In The Orchards Of Kent
  12. At Gardners’ Bags
  13. Rodney Holt, Designer & Set Builder
  14. Looking Down On Old London
  15. Last Chance To Save The Custom House
  16. The Tragical Death Of An Apple Pie
  17. A Legal Challenge To Stop The Truman Brewery Shopping Mall
  18. Barbara Jezewska, Teacher
  19. Aubrey Silkoff At The Boundary Estate
  20. At David Kira Ltd, Banana Merchants
  21. Maureen Rose, Button Maker
  22. Parkash Kaur, Shopkeeper
  23. In The Debtors’ Cell
  24. A Brief Introduction To Criminality
  25. George Cruikshank’s Comic Alphabet
  26. Peter Minter, Brick Maker
  27. Beattie Orwell, Centenarian
  28. Max Levitas & The Battle Of Cable St
  29. Hairdressers Of The Eighties
  30. PC Tassell In The Pool Of London

September 2021

  1. Autumn In Spitalfields
  2. John Claridge’s Soho Faces
  3. The Voluntary Poverty Movement
  4. Kevin Boys, Blacksmith
  5. Spitalfields Nippers
  6. Piotr Frac, Stained Glass Artist
  7. Remembering Jessica Strang
  8. Lost Spitalfields
  9. C. A. Mathew, Photographer
  10. London, The Ever-Changing City
  11. Henrietta Barnett & The Workhouse Children
  12. The Return Of Benjamin Shapiro
  13. Dan Jones’ Portraits
  14. Harold & Walter Steggles At Southend
  15. Philip Cunningham At Oxford House
  16. People You May Meet On My Tour
  17. A Walk With Suresh Singh
  18. The Fight For The Soul Of Spitalfields
  19. Hounds Of Hackney Downs
  20. A Walk On The White Cliffs
  21. Twenty Years Ago Today
  22. Save Brick Lane!
  23. At Sandwich
  24. At Herne Bay
  25. At Gravesend
  26. At Walton On the Naze
  27. A Walk Along The Ridgeway
  28. The Gentle Author’s Tour Of Spitalfields
  29. The Bethnal Green Mulberry Is Saved Again!
  30. At Minto Place, Bethnal Green

August 2021

  1. Memoirs Of William Henry Knapp
  2. Henrietta Keeper’s Photographs
  3. Tree Huts Of Epping Forest
  4. My Quilt
  5. The Consolation of Schrodinger
  6. Twelfth Annual Report
  7. At The House Mill
  8. Stan Jones Of Mile End
  9. Liam O’Farrell’s Markets
  10. At Westminster Abbey
  11. Along Old St
  12. Summer At Spitalfields City Farm
  13. Hop Picking Photographs
  14. Roy Wild, Hop Picker
  15. Pubs Of Wonderful London
  16. Music Hall Artistes Of Abney Park Cemetery
  17. So Long, Norman Riley
  18. Learn To Write Your Own Blog
  19. Old Dame Trot & Her Comical Cat
  20. Old Mother Hubbard & Her Wonderful Dog
  21. Gustave Doré’s East End
  22. Where Handel & Hendrix Were Neighbours
  23. Harry The Pencil’s Clerkenwell Sketch Book
  24. The Latin Market Is Saved
  25. At The Lutheran Church
  26. A Tourist In Whitechapel
  27. Victoria Park Model Steam Boat Club
  28. At Embassy Electrical Supplies
  29. At London Trimmings
  30. John Minton’s East End

July 2021

  1. In William Blake’s Lambeth
  2. The Foundling Of Shoreditch
  3. At The Jewish Soup Kitchen
  4. Ed Gray, Painter
  5. The Renewal Of Dennis Severs’ House
  6. Where Dennis Severs Enjoyed A Pint
  7. Where Dennis Severs Bought His China
  8. At Highgate Cemetery
  9. The Queenhithe Mosaic
  10. The Mystery Of Isabelle Barker’s Hat
  11. Ebbe Sadolin’s London
  12. Huguenot Fan Makers
  13. Beano Time
  14. Dan Cruickshank At Arnold Circus
  15. Up On The Roof With Roy Emmins
  16. Rose Henriques, Artist
  17. The Raybel At Sittingbourne
  18. So Long, Roy Emmins
  19. Marie Iles, Machinist
  20. Advanced Blog-Writing Course
  21. The Quest For Grinling Gibbons
  22. The Point Shoe Makers Of Hackney
  23. Suresh Singh’s Spitalfields
  24. Dhanji Patel, Men’s Outfitter
  25. The Anniversary Of Saving Epping Forest
  26. John Thomas Smith’s Cries Of London
  27. A Walk With Clive Murphy
  28. The Markets Of Old London
  29. Alfred Daniels, Artist
  30. Summer Book Sale
  31. At Fairlop Fair

June 2021

  1. Dennis Severs’ Tour
  2. At Anna Maria Garthwaite’s House
  3. Receipts From London’s Oldest Ironmonger
  4. Clive Murphy, Phillumenist
  5. Clive Murphy’s Snaps
  6. Simon Pettet’s Tiles At Dennis Severs’ House
  7. Tom & Jerry’s Life In London
  8. Charles Skilton’s London Life, 1950
  9. The Secrets Of Christ Church
  10. The Gates Of Old London
  11. At Clive Murphy’s Flat
  12. At Sutton House
  13. Tea With David Bowie
  14. So Long, Clive Murphy
  15. On Missing Mr Pussy
  16. Nicholas Borden’s Lockdown Paintings Exhibition
  17. Raphael Samuel’s Farewell To Spitalfields
  18. The Save Brick Lane Protest
  19. Dan Cruickshank’s Spitalfields Photographs
  20. The Pellicci Museum
  21. The Executions Of Old London
  22. Pamela Cilia, Truman’s Bottling Girl
  23. Lyndie Wright, Puppeteer
  24. The Lavender Fields Of Surrey
  25. Misericords At St Katharine’s Precinct
  26. George Parrin, Ice Cream Seller
  27. The City Churches Of Old London
  28. Happy Birthday Milly Abrahams!
  29. Sebastian Harding’s Architectural Models
  30. The Broderers At St Paul’s

May 2021

  1. London’s Natural History
  2. So Long, Ron Goldstein
  3. Hope For The Whitechapel Bell Foundry
  4. A London Inheritance & The Bug Woman
  5. Fifty Years Since The Stepney School Strike
  6. So Long, James McBarron
  7. The Battle For Brick Lane Exhibition
  8. A Door In Cornhill
  9. Jim Howett, Designer
  10. Some Favourite London Mulberries
  11. The Bethnal Green Mulberry Verdict
  12. In Search Of The Walbrook
  13. Sam Syntax’s Cries Of London
  14. The Departure Of Arthur Beale
  15. The Return Of The Gentle Author’s Blog Course
  16. A Brief History Of Change
  17. 100 Years In The East End
  18. So Long, Kitty Jennings
  19. The Death Of The Whitechapel Bell Foundry
  20. Peta Bridle’s Riverside Sketchbook
  21. At Wellington Buildings In Bow
  22. Adam Dant’s Map Of The Parish Of St Martin-In-The-Fields
  23. Spring At Spitalfields City Farm
  24. Charles Chusseau-Flaviens, Photographer
  25. My Source Of Inspiration In Lockdown
  26. Rachael South, Chair Caner
  27. How Old Is The Bethnal Green Mulberry ?
  28. Bethnal Green Mulberry At The High Court
  29. Bluebells At Bow
  30. The High Days & Holidays Of Old London
  31. Roland Collins’ East End

April 2021

  1. James Boswell’s East End
  2. Jeffrey Johnson’s Favourite Spots
  3. Franta Belsky’s Sculpture in Bethnal Green
  4. Furniture Trade Cards Of Old London
  5. Phil Maxwell’s Brick Lane
  6. The Cally In The Eighties
  7. Stephen Gill’s Trolley Women
  8. William Anthony, Last Of The Charlies
  9. The Curry Chefs of Brick Lane
  10. The Good News & The Bad News
  11. Samuel Pepys At St Olave’s
  12. Down A Well In Spitalfields
  13. Frost Brothers, Rope Makers & Yarn Spinners
  14. Bethnal Green Mulberry Campaign News
  15. Nicholas Borden’s Lockdown Paintings
  16. Barry Rogg Of Rogg’s Delicatessen
  17. John Thomas Smith’s Antient Topography
  18. On Top Of Britannic House With DC Tassell
  19. At Annetta Pedretti’s House
  20. Piggott Brothers Of Bishopsgate
  21. More Of Fran May’s Brick Lane Photos
  22. Cruikshank’s London Almanac, 1835
  23. Matchbox Models By Lesney & Company
  24. Voices From Brick Lane’s Jewish Past
  25. Ernest George’s Old London Etchings
  26. Upon The Origins Of Bow Church
  27. Fran May’s Brick Lane
  28. Albert Turpin, Painter
  29. More Brick Lane Events
  30. Swirl Of Words/Swirl Of Worlds

March 2021

  1. So Long, Monty Meth
  2. East End Blossom Time
  3. Elwin Hawthorne, Painter
  4. The Docks Of Old London
  5. How To Make A Chapati
  6. William Marshall Craig’s Itinerant Traders
  7. Charles Booth In Spitalfields
  8. Roland Collins, Artist
  9. The Trade Cards Of Old London
  10. Harry T. Harmer, Painter
  11. Graffiti At The Tower Of London
  12. Grace Oscroft, Painter
  13. The Dogs Of Old London
  14. On The Eve Of Spring
  15. Nik Strangelove’s Brick Lane
  16. Philip Marriage’s Date Box Labels
  17. Keren McConnell’s Fruit Wrappers
  18. George Double, Builder of Boxted Bridge
  19. On Mothering Sunday
  20. Portraits From Philip Mernick’s Collection
  21. Three Brick Lane Events
  22. On Vaccination Day
  23. East End Preservation Society Bulletin
  24. A Lost Corner Of Whitechapel
  25. The Bakers Of Widegate Street
  26. John Thomson’s Street Life
  27. Thomas Newington’s Recipes
  28. Raju Vaidyanathan’s Brick Lane
  29. Laurie Elks’ Bottle Label Collection
  30. The London Alphabet
  31. Alan Shipp, Hyacinth Grower
  32. The Spirit Of London, 1935

February 2021

  1. Winter At Spitalfields City Farm
  2. Spires Of City Churches
  3. Remembering East End Jewish Bookshops
  4. List Of Local Shops Open For Business
  5. Adam Dant’s London Squares
  6. Costume Of The Lower Orders Of The Metropolis
  7. Vanishing London
  8. Remembering Mr Pussy In Winter
  9. AS Jasper, Writer & Cabinet Maker
  10. The Tale Of James Hadfield’s Pistol
  11. Chinnee Kaur, My Mum
  12. In Search Of Horace Warner
  13. John Thomas Smith’s Vagabondiana
  14. John Allin, Painter
  15. At The Custom House
  16. Love Tokens From The Thames
  17. Snowfall At Bow Cemetery
  18. List Of Local Shops Open For Business
  19. Lew Tassell’s Day Trip
  20. Minor Stepney Disasters Of The Seventies
  21. The Juvenile Almanac
  22. Wilful Destruction At The Truman Brewery
  23. Frank Merton Atkins, Photographer
  24. List Of Local Shops Open For Business
  25. Derek Brook’s East End
  26. So Long, Tony Burns
  27. A Brief History Of Coborn Street
  28. Alf Rubinstein, The Purse King

January 2021

  1. Postcards From Petticoat Lane
  2. Lawrence Gowing’s Departure From Mare St
  3. Jill Green, Designer & Maker
  4. List Of Local Shops Open For Business
  5. Happy Days At The Golden Heart
  6. Lost People
  7. Snowmen Of Yesteryear
  8. A Judicial Review At The High Court For The Bethnal Green Mulberry
  9. E. O. Hoppé’s Londoners
  10. List Of Local Shops Open For Business
  11. Crowden & Keeves’ Hardware
  12. Adam Dant’s Club Row
  13. Merlin Is Missing!
  14. Philip Cunningham’s Dead Signs
  15. Winter Flowers
  16. Keeper Of The Dead Signs
  17. So Long, Gerry Cottle
  18. Caroline Gilfillan & Andrew Scott’s East End
  19. My Scrap Collection
  20. List Of Local Shops Open For Business
  21. So Long, Mannie Blankett
  22. Travellers Children In London Fields
  23. Remembering A Hoxton Childhood
  24. More Ghastly Facades
  25. My Love For The Cries Of London
  26. The Punjabi Punk
  27. The Boss Of Bethnal Green
  28. The Lives Of The Nippers
  29. James Mackinnon, Artist
  30. LAMAS Photographs
  31. Adam Dant’s London Calendar

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December 2020

  1. Oranges & Lemons Churches
  2. Viscountess Boudica’s Christmas
  3. David Hoffman & Crisis At Christmas
  4. The Ghosts Of Old London
  5. The Gentle Author’s Pantomime
  6. The Gentle Author’s Christmas
  7. Schrödinger In Lockdown
  8. Christmas Baubles
  9. Fritz Wegner’s Christmas Plates
  10. List Of Local Shops Open For Business
  11. Joan Lauder, Cat Lady
  12. Midwinter In Spitalfields
  13. So Long, Mama Irene
  14. So Long, Still & Star
  15. At The Caslon Letter Foundry
  16. On Night Patrol With PC Tassell
  17. The Bridges Of Old London
  18. Terry Barns, Knot Tyer
  19. Ron McCormick’s Whitechapel
  20. In Search Of ‘Sparrows Can’t Sing’
  21. The Battle For Brick Lane
  22. An Astonishing Photographic Discovery
  23. Jagir Kaur’s Recipes
  24. Some Favourite John Claridge Photographs
  25. From The Pages Of My Album
  26. Phillip Lucas, Collector
  27. Favourite East End Artists
  28. Looking Forward To Christmas
  29. D-Day For Bishopsgate Goodsyard
  30. A Walk Through Walter Thornbury’s London
  31. The Man Beneath Trafalgar Sq

November 2020

  1. Roy Wild, Van Boy At The Goodsyard
  2. Doreen Fletcher, Still Standing
  3. So Long, Shloimy Alman
  4. List Of Local Shops Open For Business
  5. Charles Keeping, Artist
  6. So Long, Pamela Freedman
  7. Moyra Peralta, Photographer
  8. In Old Spitalfields
  9. Charles W Cushman’s London
  10. So Long, Tom The Sailor
  11. List Of Shops Open For Business
  12. March Of The Monoliths
  13. John Fairburn’s Chapbooks
  14. John Gillman’s Bus Ticket Collection
  15. Julius Mendes Price’s London Types
  16. Dennis & Christine Reeve, Walnut Farmers
  17. Pubs Of Wonderful London
  18. Pedro da Costa Felgueiras, Lacquer & Paint Specialist (Japanner)
  19. List Of Shops Open For Business
  20. So Long, Leo Giordani
  21. Tony Armstrong Jones’ East End
  22. Shakespeare’s Dark Lady Of Spitalfields
  23. Chestnuts In Greenwich
  24. At Chiswick House
  25. To Lift Your Spirits
  26. List of Shops Open For Business
  27. Spitalfields Market Nocturne
  28. On Election Day
  29. Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Churches
  30. Bloomsbury Jamboree On Ice

October 2020

  1. The Tragical Death Of An Apple Pie
  2. A Brief History Of Crypts
  3. A Dead Man In Clerkenwell
  4. Danny Levy At Whitechapel Bell Foundry
  5. Happy Birthday, Dan Jones!
  6. Pearl Binder At Whitechapel Bell Foundry
  7. At The Three Crowns
  8. Dicky Lumskul’s Ramble Through London
  9. Protest To Save Arnold Circus!
  10. Rose At The Golden Heart
  11. Ivor Weiss, Artist
  12. In & Out The Eagle
  13. Frank Derrett, Photographer
  14. Shakespeare’s Mulberry To The Rescue!
  15. Jemmy Catnach’s Cries Of London
  16. 14 Whitechapel Bell Foundry Poems
  17. Great Tom At St Paul’s
  18. Benjamin Kipling, Bell Tuner
  19. A Visit To The Bow Bells
  20. Steve Dobkin, Bacon St Salvage
  21. A Room To Let In Old Aldgate
  22. Lyndon Osborn, Nurseryman
  23. John Claridge At Whitechapel Bell Foundry
  24. Dorothy Rendell At Whitechapel Bell Foundry
  25. Nigel Taylor, Tower Bell Production Manager
  26. Opening Of The Bell Foundry Public Inquiry
  27. Adam Dant’s Bells Of Whitechapel
  28. So Long, Doorkins Magnificat
  29. Autumn In Spitalfields
  30. Cockney Cats

September 2020

  1. William Oglethorpe, Bermondsey Cheese Maker
  2. Nights Of Old London
  3. Frank Derrett’s West End
  4. The Battle For The Bell Foundry
  5. The Stars Are Bright
  6. John Thomas Smith’s Rural Cottages
  7. Three Sneaky Developers
  8. William Whiffin, Photographer
  9. At Abbey Wood
  10. Peta Bridle’s City Of London Sketchbook
  11. Chris Kelly & Dan Jones In The Playground
  12. John Boulderson, A Limehouse Mariner
  13. Just Another Day With John Claridge
  14. The Signs Of Old London
  15. This Is Jimmy’s London
  16. The Curious Legacy Of Francis Wheatley
  17. Sarsparilla & Mineral Water Sellers
  18. London Street Signs
  19. Outtakes Of A Press Photographer
  20. The Departure of Andy Willoughby
  21. Dusty Corners In The City Of London
  22. More Hounds Of Hackney Downs
  23. Stepney Old People’s Welfare Association
  24. Adam Dant’s Map Of Iconoclastic London
  25. The Townhouse Open Exhibition

August 2020

  1. Eleventh Annual Report
  2. Lucy Hart, Head Gardener At Fulham Palace
  3. Geoffrey Fletcher’s Pavement Pounders
  4. On Missing Mr Pussy In Summer
  5. John Bringhurst, Seditious Printer
  6. The Bookshops Of Old London
  7. The Spitalfields Bowl
  8. Tom Vowden, Stained Glass Conservator
  9. Martin White, Textile Consultant
  10. The Re-Opening Of Crescent Trading
  11. At The Halal Restaurant
  12. In Old Rotherhithe
  13. The Education Of Audrey Kneller
  14. Audrey Kneller Of Elder St
  15. Dragan Novakovic’s Club Row
  16. At Emery Walker’s House

July 2020

  1. Dragan Novakovic’s Brick Lane
  2. Watermen’s Stairs In Wapping
  3. In Search Of Shakespeare’s London
  4. In Search Of Roman London
  5. Tex Adjetunmobi, Photographer
  6. On Liverpool St Station
  7. Cockney Beanos
  8. Thomas Onwhyn’s Pictures Of London
  9. The Roman Ruin At The Hairdresser
  10. Terry Scales, Painter
  11. Summer At Arnold Circus
  12. At Waltham Abbey
  13. At Tim Hunkin’s Workshop
  14. Cherishing The Fabric Of Arnold Circus
  15. In The Grounds Of Fulham Palace
  16. Tessa Hunkin In Stoke Newington
  17. Swan Upping On The Thames
  18. Philip Cunningham’s East End Shopfronts
  19. George Parrin, Ice Cream Seller
  20. Marcellus Laroon’s Cries Of London
  21. The Reopening Of Columbia Rd Market
  22. Adam Dant At Sandys Row Synagogue
  23. Inside The Model Of St Paul’s
  24. The Microcosm Of London
  25. John Claridge’s View From A Dinghy
  26. The Barbers Of Spitalfields
  27. The Pubs Of Old London
  28. The Return Of The Gallant
  29. Tim Hunkin’s Social Distancing Machine
  30. New Home For The Museum Of London
  31. Syd Shelton’s East End

June 2020

  1. Tessa Hunkin’s New Mosaic In Haggerston
  2. Phil Maxwell At Chrisp St Market
  3. Alice Pattullo’s Alphabet
  4. The Little Visitors
  5. Adam Dant’s London Rebus
  6. Paul Trevor In Brick Lane, 1978
  7. At The Truman Brewery, 1931
  8. The Mysterious Tree Huts Of Epping Forest
  9. Portraits Of Working Lads Of Whitechapel
  10. At St Mary’s Secret Garden
  11. The Gentle Author’s Coronavirus Diary
  12. Charles Jones, Gardener & Photographer
  13. George Cruikshank’s London Summer
  14. Suresh Singh, The Cockney Sikh, On Zoom
  15. A London Herbal
  16. The Shops of Old London
  17. Summer At Bow Cemetery
  18. The Statues Of Old London
  19. Peta Bridle’s Gravesend Sketchbook
  20. Trouble At The Truman Brewery
  21. Beigels Already
  22. List Of Shops Open For Business
  23. Doreen Fletcher’s Early Drawings
  24. Doreen Fletcher’s Early Paintings
  25. Dan Cruickshank’s Survey Of Spitalfields
  26. Around Old Billingsgate
  27. Cats In The Time Of Coronavirus
  28. Dogs Of London Fields
  29. List Of Shops Open For Business
  30. William Morris In The East End

May 2020

  1. In Search Of The Relics Of Old St Pauls
  2. The East End Flower Women Of 2020
  3. Mortlake Jugs
  4. Adam Dant’s Map Of Viral London
  5. Wonderful London
  6. List Of Local Shops Open For Business
  7. Remembering The 43 Group
  8. At Kirby’s Eccentric Museum
  9. A History Of Gardening In The East End
  10. Thierry Girard’s East End, 1976
  11. George Cruikshank At The Tower Of London
  12. The Journey Of Martin Nadaud
  13. List Of Local Shops Open For Business
  14. New Date For The Whitechapel Bell Foundry Public Inquiry
  15. A Few Pints With John Claridge
  16. On Recovering From The Coronavirus
  17. Thomas Bewick’s Cat
  18. East End Desire Paths
  19. Paul Bommer’s Huguenot Plaque
  20. List Of Local Shops Open For Business
  21. So Long, Philip Pittack
  22. In Long Forgotten London
  23. Lucinda Douglas-Menzies At Butler’s Wharf
  24. Sounds Of Silence In Spitalfields
  25. Alie Touw’s War
  26. At St Andrew’s Chapel, Boxley
  27. List Of Local Shops Open For Business
  28. H W Petherick’s London Characters
  29. Travelling Roads Through Time
  30. At The Solidarity Britannia Food Bank
  31. Birds Of Spitalfields

April 2020

  1. Agnese Sanvito’s London Queues
  2. Nicholas Culpeper, Herbalist Of Spitalfields
  3. List Of Local Shops Open For Business
  4. So Long, George Gladwell
  5. Phil Maxwell’s Kids on The Street
  6. Social Distancing With My Mother
  7. Vagabondiana
  8. The Pumps Of Old London
  9. Joanna Moore’s Spitalfields
  10. List Of Local Shops Open For Business
  11. Bluebells At Bow Cemetery
  12. Val Perrin’s Empty Brick Lane
  13. Rosie Dastgir’s Letter From Tokyo
  14. Cable St Gardeners
  15. A Pack Of Knaves
  16. In Convalescence With My Mother
  17. List of Local Shops Open For Business
  18. William Kent’s Arch In Bow
  19. The Spitalfields Rebus
  20. Spitalfields In Kodachrome
  21. An Easter Treat
  22. So Long, Ahmet Kamil
  23. Wenceslaus Hollar’s Plague Letters
  24. List Of Local Shops Open For Business
  25. In Self-Isolation With My Mother
  26. The Consolation Of Schrodinger
  27. In The Rotunda At The Museum Of London
  28. Blackie, The Last Spitalfields Market Cat
  29. So Long, Stuart Goodman
  30. The Nine Herbs Charm To Cure Infection

March 2020

  1. List Of Local Shops Open For Business
  2. One Hundred Penguin Books
  3. The Weathervanes Of Old London
  4. Margaret Rope’s East End Windows
  5. At The Velho & Alderney Rd Cemeteries
  6. The Auriculas Of Spitalfields
  7. Eleanor Crow’s Chemists
  8. Samuel Pepys At St Olave’s
  9. At Home With My Mother
  10. The Plagues Of Old London
  11. The Lives Of The Spitalfields Nippers
  12. Women Of The Old East End
  13. Victorian Tradesmen Scraps
  14. A Sense Of Proportion
  15. The Loneliness Of Old London
  16. Meandering Along The River Lea
  17. James Leman’s Album Of Silk Designs
  18. David Truzzi-Franconi’s East End
  19. Cat Women
  20. Old Letterheads & Receipts From Whitechapel
  21. A Fireplace In Fournier St
  22. Simon Pettet’s Tiles
  23. Philip Pittack, Rag Merchant
  24. Old East End Letterheads & Receipts
  25. Ron McCormick’s Spitalfields
  26. A Brief History of The Bishopsgate Goodsyard
  27. The Lost Breweries Of Whitechapel
  28. Manny Silverman, Tailor
  29. The Trade Of The Gardener
  30. Barnett Freedman, Artist
  31. Celebrating Pubs, Cafes, Chicken Shops & Launderettes
  32. Rebecca Wright At Dennis Severs’ House

February 2020

  1. A Date For The Bell Foundry Public Inquiry
  2. John Dempsey’s Portraits
  3. Phil Maxwell’s East End Dreams
  4. In Search Of The Alleys Of Old London
  5. My Advanced Blog-Writing Course
  6. East End Women Photographers
  7. Alison Light’s Spitalfields
  8. The Town House Open Exhibition
  9. Save The Chamber St Wall
  10. Peta Bridle’s New Etchings
  11. The Return Of The Goodsyard Monster
  12. Edith Tudor-Hart In London
  13. The Silent Traveller
  14. The Division Bells Of Westminster
  15. Eleanor Crow At Leila’s Shop
  16. Love Tokens From The Thames
  17. So Long, ‘Smilin’ Sammy McCarthy
  18. A Walk Through Time In Spitalfields
  19. Wenceslaus Hollar At Old St Pauls
  20. My Winter Blooms
  21. Further Along The Regent’s Canal
  22. The Bethnal Green Mulberry Saga
  23. So Long, Henrietta Keeper
  24. The Wyvern Bindery Is Moving
  25. Gram Hilleard’s Postcards From London
  26. Phyllis Archer, First Lady of Fournier St
  27. The Magnificent Old Ladies Of Whitechapel
  28. Julie Begum, Someone Still Evolving
  29. The Marquis Of Lansdowne Restored

January 2020

  1. The Guardians Of London’s Lost Rivers
  2. The Language Of Printing
  3. Along The Regent’s Canal
  4. Bud Flanagan’s Spitalfields
  5. Sandle Brothers, Manufacturing Stationers
  6. At Newmans Stationery
  7. Public Homes On Public Land
  8. A Riverside Walk In the Eighties
  9. A Public Inquiry For The Bell Foundry
  10. At Barts’ Great Hall
  11. Spitalfields Market In The Eighties
  12. The Sclater St Weavers Houses
  13. Piotr Frac’s New Window
  14. Jack Sheppard, Highwayman
  15. Joy Harris, Dressmaker
  16. The Relentless Rise Of Facadism
  17. Stuart Goodman in Broadway Market
  18. So Long, Peter Sargent
  19. Peter Barber In The East End
  20. A Walk Through Dickens London
  21. At The Fruit & Wool Exchange, 1937
  22. Irene Stride In Spitalfields
  23. Geoff Perrior’s Spitalfields
  24. At Paul Gardner’s Party
  25. The Dioramas Of Petticoat Lane
  26. The CR Ashbee Lecture 2020
  27. Packing Up Gardners Market Sundriesmen
  28. Toy Theatres In Old St
  29. Roy Gardner’s Sales Tickets
  30. 150 Years In Commercial St
  31. Adam Dant’s Perpetual Drinking Calendar

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December 2019

  1. The Night City by W S Graham
  2. Night At The Beigel Bakery
  3. The Last Blog-Writing Course
  4. At St Paul’s In Old London
  5. Christmas At Dennis Severs’ House
  6. My Panto Years
  7. Schrodinger At Christmas
  8. All The Spitalfields Parties Of Yesteryear
  9. At Whitechapel Mission On Christmas Eve
  10. Last Brew At Syd’s Coffee Stall
  11. So Long, Syd’s Coffee Stall
  12. Baking Speculaas At E5 Bakehouse
  13. Rory Stewart Declares His Support To Save The Whitechapel Bell Foundry
  14. The Streets Of Old London
  15. Remembering Scars Of War
  16. Julie Price’s Christmas Cards
  17. Some Old London Trade Cards
  18. At Burley Fisher Books
  19. Graffiti At The Tower Of London
  20. Casting A Bell At Here East
  21. A Couple Of Pints With Tony Hall
  22. Join The Bottletop Royalty
  23. Maria Pellicci’s Christmas Ravioli
  24. Nicholas Borden’s Latest Paintings
  25. On The Eve Of The Bloomsbury Jamboree
  26. Eleanor Crow’s Map Of East End Trades
  27. Winter Light In Spitalfields
  28. The Secretary Of State Steps In
  29. The Hackney Yearbook
  30. An Important Correction
  31. Peri Parkes’ Conder St Paintings
  32. A Letter To The Secretary Of State

November 2019

  1. Authors At The Bloomsbury Jamboree
  2. William Marshall Craig’s Itinerant Traders
  3. So Long, Jonathan Miller
  4. In William Blake’s London
  5. At Clapton Community Football Club
  6. The Curry Chefs Of Brick Lane
  7. A Bloomsbury Jamboree
  8. David Kira Ltd, Banana Merchants
  9. The Forgotten Corners Of Old London
  10. Pomegranates At Leila’s Shop
  11. A Photograph of Jeremiah Donovan
  12. The Wax Sellers Of Wentworth St
  13. At Simpsons Chop House
  14. Peri Parkes’ East End
  15. At The Mile End Assembly Room
  16. The Fate Of The Whitechapel Bell Foundry
  17. D Day For The Whitechapel Bell Foundry
  18. An Old Whitechapel Bell
  19. Gillian Tindall’s War Time Memories
  20. Adam Dant’s Children’s Games
  21. Save Our Bell Foundry
  22. Gram Hilleard’s Paintings Of Churches
  23. Javed Iqbal, TV Repair Man
  24. Raju Vaidyanathan’s Brick Lane
  25. Rally To Save The Bell Foundry
  26. Anthony Eyton, Painter
  27. Viscountess Boudica At The Tower
  28. Adam Dant’s Synonyms for Drunkenness
  29. Behind The Facade
  30. George Wells, Able Seaman

October 2019

  1. The Disappointment Of Historic England
  2. Henrietta Keeper, Singer
  3. Taverns of Long Forgotten London
  4. Burdekin’s London Nights
  5. The Nights Of Old London
  6. My Ghastly Facadism Book Launch
  7. At S. Festenstein & Sons, Furriers
  8. Maintenance Announcement
  9. At The Taj Stores
  10. Old East End Bollards
  11. The Dead Man In Clerkenwell
  12. A Facade In The Borough
  13. My Ghastly Facadism Lecture
  14. A Walk In Walter Thornbury’s London
  15. The East End In The Afternoon
  16. A Childhood In Charterhouse Square
  17. The Alleys, Byways & Courts Of Old London
  18. Tim Hunkin’s Fulfilment Center Machine
  19. At The Boar’s Head Playhouse
  20. The Arrival Of The Gallant
  21. In Old Stepney
  22. Surma Centre Portraits
  23. John Player’s Cries Of London 1913
  24. Ben Hur In Stepney
  25. Lilo Blum, Hyde Park Equestrian
  26. Peter Rayner, Baker, Bell Tuner & Train Driver
  27. The Harvest Festival Of The Sea
  28. Ruth Franklin At House Mill
  29. On Photographing Facades
  30. Philippa Stockley’s Restoration Stories
  31. Eleanor Crow’s Butchers

September 2019

  1. A Walk With Shloimy Alman
  2. Shloimy Alman, Photographer
  3. All Change At Barney’s Eels
  4. The Pearly Kings & Queens’ Harvest Festival
  5. Origins Of Facadism
  6. Autumn In Spitalfields
  7. Artists Of East End Vernacular
  8. Peter Sargent, Bethnal Green Butcher
  9. Eleanor Crow’s Fish Shops
  10. Stan Jones Of Mile End
  11. The Subtle Art Of Glynn Boyd Harte
  12. Why Facadism Is Happening
  13. At Malplaquet House
  14. The Crow Stone & The London Stone
  15. Patch, Pot & Print
  16. Cecil Osborne’s Murals For Sale
  17. Remembering Madge Gill
  18. Three Ghastly East End Facades
  19. London’s Oldest Ironmonger
  20. At Tubby Isaac’s Jellied Eels Stall
  21. At The Ceremony Of The Keys
  22. Barbara Haigh, Landlady At The Grapes
  23. Steve Brooker, Thames Mudlark
  24. So Long, Ronald Morgan
  25. The Plaster Is Off & Other News
  26. Arful Nessa, Gardener
  27. On Publication Day For SHOPFRONTS OF LONDON
  28. Viscountess Boudica’s Domestic Appliances
  29. The Cats Of Spitalfields
  30. Lorna Brunstein Of Black Lion Yard

August 2019

  1. Whitechapel Bell Foundry Meeting
  2. Rodney Archer, The Aesthete Of Fournier St
  3. Shajeda Akhter, Playworker
  4. Bell Foundry Petition News
  5. Gary Arber, Printer
  6. Abdul Mukhtadir, Storyteller
  7. Joan Rose At Arnold Circus
  8. Paul Gardner, Paper Bag Seller
  9. Tenth Annual Report
  10. Whitechapel Bell Foundry Alert
  11. Parkash Kaur, Shopkeeper
  12. The Bones Of Old London
  13. Leon Silver, Nelson St Synagogue
  14. Chris Miles’ East End
  15. Eleanor Crow’s Cafes
  16. John Thomas Smith’s Ancient Topography
  17. Sophie Spielman, Victorious Campaigner
  18. Treves & Lister Houses Are Saved
  19. Charles Skilton’s London Life
  20. Dan Jones Portraits
  21. Eleanor Crow’s Bakers’ Shops
  22. A Bethnal Green Mulberry Calamity
  23. Illustrated London, 1893
  24. Roy Wild, Hop Picker
  25. Hop Picking Photographs
  26. East End Mulberry Harvest
  27. Aubrey Silkoff At The Boundary Estate
  28. Sylvester Mittee, Welterweight Champion
  29. Eleanor Crow’s Shopfronts Of London
  30. Eva Frankfurther’s Drawings
  31. The Consolation of Schrodinger

July 2019

  1. At Dr Johnson’s House
  2. At Billingsgate Roman Bathhouse
  3. Ebbe Sadolin’s London
  4. Philip Cunningham’s East End Portraits
  5. Joseph Merceron v Ross Poldark
  6. At Ben Truman’s House
  7. The Spitalfields Roman Woman
  8. The Animals Of Georgian London
  9. In Search Of Culpeper’s Spitalfields
  10. Wonderful London’s East End
  11. Hilary Haydon, Brother At The Charterhouse
  12. At The Canal Club
  13. Forty Years At The Golden Heart
  14. The Broderers Of St Paul’s
  15. The Coal Holes Of Old London
  16. Doris Halsall, Civil Servant & Despatch Rider
  17. Ted Vanner, Model Steamboat Genius
  18. My Facade Safaris
  19. The Motor Mechanics Of Bow
  20. Nineteenth Century East End Darlings
  21. Charles Spurgeon’s Street Traders
  22. At Aldgate Pump
  23. Tessa Hunkin At London Zoo
  24. The Inescapable Melancholy Of Phone Boxes
  25. So Long, Leon Kossoff
  26. Piotr Frac, Stained Glass Artist
  27. The Facades Of Spitalfields
  28. At The Italian Parade In Clerkenwell
  29. John Claridge’s Soho Faces
  30. John Claridge At The French House
  31. Lesley Lewis, The French House

June 2019

  1. At Chatham Royal Dockyard
  2. In The Lavender Fields Of Surrey
  3. The Boishakhi Mela Parade
  4. Fred Iles, Meter Fixer
  5. A Survey Of The Whitechapel Bell Foundry
  6. Pamela Cilia, Truman’s Bottling Girl
  7. A Botch-Up In Bishopsgate
  8. Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran, Writers
  9. Adam Dant’s Map Of Civil War London
  10. Midsummer With The Druids
  11. Sammy McCarthy, Flyweight Champion
  12. A Film About The Whitechapel Bell Foundry
  13. Ray Newton, Historian Of Shadwell
  14. An Abomination In Bethnal Green
  15. Marie Iles, Machinist
  16. Help me publish a book of THE CREEPING PLAGUE OF GHASTLY FACADISM
  17. Alexander Baron’s East End
  18. The Stranger’s Guide To London
  19. At Bevis Marks Synagogue
  20. Adam Dant’s West End Squares
  21. The Club Row Weavers Houses Are Listed!
  22. Music Hall Artistes In Abney Park Cemetery
  23. Robert Green, Sclater St Market Trader
  24. Oranges & Lemons Churches
  25. Anna Maria Garthwaite, Silk Designer
  26. The King Of The Bottletops in Bow
  27. In Mile End Old Town
  28. Bobby Prentice, Waterman & Lighterman
  29. Gardening On The Roundabout
  30. Caroline Bousfield, Craftsman

May 2019

  1. So Long, Pyke’s Cinematograph Theatre
  2. Visit The Secret Gardens Of Spitalfields
  3. The Return Of Norah Pam
  4. The Journeyman Weavers’ Houses
  5. Ronnie Grant, Racing Driver
  6. The Highdays & Holidays Of Old London
  7. In Search Of The Civil War In London
  8. In City Of London Churchyards
  9. Real Life For Children, 1819
  10. Malcolm Tremain’s Spitalfields, Then & Now
  11. A Walk With Suresh Singh
  12. Underneath Smithfield Market
  13. Kois Miah At Robin Hood Gardens
  14. Impending Disaster At 3 Club Row
  15. Bethnal Green Mulberry Lecture
  16. The Long Night Of The Phone Booths
  17. Leo Epstein Of Epra Fabrics
  18. The Soup Kitchens Of Spitalfields
  19. Philip Marriage In Spitalfields
  20. Dave Thompson, Joiner
  21. Michelle Mason’s Flower Market
  22. The Secrets Of Christ Church
  23. Harry Landis, Actor
  24. The Bethnal Green Gasometers
  25. Memories of Ship Tavern Passage
  26. Two Events At London Metropolitan Archive
  27. Sally Flood, Poet
  28. Linda Carney, Machinist
  29. Jimmy Huddart, Spitalfields Market Porter
  30. Malcolm Tremain’s Spitalfields In The Seventies
  31. Hugh Wedderburn, Master Woodcarver

April 2019

  1. In Jeffrey Johnson’s Footsteps
  2. Ernest George’s Old London
  3. Mavis Bullwinkle, Secretary
  4. At Victoria Park Model Steam Boat Club
  5. Ann Sotheran’s West End Champions
  6. Paul Pindar’s House In Bishopsgate
  7. What Happened To Tadmans
  8. Old Dame Trot & Her Comical Cat
  9. Schrodinger’s First Year In Spitalfields
  10. Alie Touw’s Life In Britain
  11. Alie Touw’s War
  12. Alie Touw, Centenarian
  13. Harry The Pencil’s Lunchtime Sketchbook
  14. Hot Cross Buns At St Bartholomew The Great
  15. The Riflemen Of Bow
  16. The Mysterious Stone Heads At Greenwich
  17. Tony Bock At Watney Market
  18. George Gladwell’s Photos Of Columbia Rd
  19. Neville Turner Of Elder Street
  20. In Old Bow
  21. Bug Woman London
  22. At Walthamstow Pump House
  23. The Dandy’s Perambulations
  24. In The Orchards Of Kent
  25. A Pub Crawl In Smithfield & Holborn
  26. A Corner Shop In Old Ford Rd
  27. Jagmohan Bhakar, Rotarian
  28. At Nichols Bros (Woodturners) Ltd
  29. In Old Paddington
  30. Tavern Tokens Of Bishopsgate

March 2019

  1. Along The Black Path
  2. On Mothering Sunday
  3. Blossom Time In The East End
  4. Cats Of Hackney Mosaic
  5. A Dress Of Spitalfields Silk
  6. The Gentle Author’s Spring Shirt
  7. Isabelle Barker’s Hat
  8. Suresh Singh’s Tank Top
  9. Four Centuries At Whitechapel Bell Foundry
  10. Where Hendrix & Handel Were Neighbours
  11. East End Shopfronts
  12. Hope For The Bethnal Green Mulberry
  13. Tamara Stoll’s Ridley Rd Market
  14. Jeffrey Johnson’s Favourite Signs
  15. Jacqueline Billings Of Wellclose Square
  16. Dorothy Rendell At Whitechapel Bell Foundry
  17. Dorothy Rendell’s Solo Show
  18. The Metropolitan Machinists’ Co
  19. Watermen’s Stairs
  20. So Long, The Water Poet
  21. Dorothy Rendell’s London
  22. Down The Old Roman Rd
  23. Pearl Binder At The Whitechapel Bell Foundry
  24. Darton’s Nursery Songs
  25. The Legacy Of Dorothy Rendell
  26. Frank Merton Atkins’ City Churches
  27. An Exhibition Of Dorothy Rendell
  28. This Is Jimmy’s London
  29. At Clapton Beauty Parlour
  30. 14 Short Whitechapel Bell Foundry Poems
  31. My East End Vernacular Lecture
  32. The Departure Of Empress Coaches

February 2019

  1. Denton Welch’s Dolls House
  2. Anthony Cairns’ Small Shops
  3. Harry Harrison’s East End Portraits
  4. In The Charnel House
  5. John Claridge At Whitechapel Bell Foundry
  6. Terry Barns, Knot Tyer
  7. Aunt Busy Bee’s New London Cries
  8. Anthony Cairn’s Lost East End Pubs
  9. Schrodinger Pleases Himself
  10. The Pellicci Museum
  11. Thomas Barnes, Photographer
  12. Benjamin Kipling, Bell Tuner
  13. In Search Of Doreen Fletcher’s East End
  14. Spring Flowers At Bow Cemetery
  15. Viscountess Boudica’s Valentines Day
  16. The Door In Cornhill
  17. Terry Bay, Boxer, Compositor & Cab Driver
  18. Paul Anthony Gardner’s East End
  19. Nigel Taylor, Tower Bell Production Manager
  20. Doreen Fletcher’s Lost Time
  21. Last Chance For Tadmans
  22. Catching Up With Peta Bridle
  23. Daniele Lamarche’s East End
  24. Matt Walters, Human Statue
  25. John Thomas Smith’s Old London Cries
  26. A Bell-Themed Boutique Hotel?
  27. Boiling The Eels At Barneys Seafood
  28. Fat Cats In The City, 1824

January 2019

  1. At God’s Convenience
  2. Ken Sequin’s Badge Collection
  3. At Arthur Beale
  4. Catching Up With Nicholas Borden
  5. Tamara Stoll’s Ridley Rd Portraits
  6. Mia Sabel, Saddler
  7. Billy & Charley’s Shadwell Shams
  8. Doreen Fletcher In Her Own Words
  9. George Cruikshank’s Comic Alphabet
  10. So Long, Terry Bloomfield
  11. In Old Globetown
  12. A Few Doreen Fletcher Paintings
  13. Developments On The Horizon
  14. At Freed Of London Ltd, Ballet & Theatrical Shoe Makers
  15. Allen & Hanburys’ Surgical Appliances
  16. Adam Dant’s Map Of Jewish Spitalfields
  17. At The House Of Dreams
  18. David O’Mara’s Spitalfields
  19. Inside The Model Of St Paul’s
  20. Kirby’s Eccentric Museum
  21. So Long, Maurice Franklin
  22. The Lost World Of The Alleys
  23. At The Angel, Rotherhithe
  24. The Last Of The London
  25. Spitalfields In Colour
  26. Jeffrey Johnson’s London Pubs
  27. Charlie Chaplin In Spitalfields
  28. ‘No Enemy But Winter & Rough Weather’
  29. William Anthony, Last Of the Charlies
  30. Sights Of Wonderful London
  31. This Is The Year Of Doreen Fletcher

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