The Curious Engineer

Spitalfields Life

2023–2026

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October 2026

  1. Upon The Nature Of Fear
  2. The Dead Man In Clerkenwell
  3. The Tombs Of Old London
  4. The Crypts Of Old London
  5. Luke Clennell’s Dance Of Death
  6. Georgiana Eagle & The Curse Of Vicky’s Ticker
  7. The Nights Of Old London
  8. Burdekin’s London Nights
  9. Spitalfields In Autumn
  10. Joan Lauder, Cat Lady Of Spitalfields
  11. So Long, G. Kelly Of Bethnal Green
  12. Joan Beales, Illustrator
  13. Javed Iqbal, TV Repair Man
  14. The Dogs Of Old London
  15. Alice Pattullo: Fire & Ice
  16. A Lost Corner Of Whitechapel
  17. Gravedigger’s Grave Stories
  18. At Chiswick House
  19. Jim Howett, Designer
  20. In The Secret Garret At Brunswick House
  21. The Lantern Slides Of Old London
  22. Hairdressers Of The Eighties
  23. A Whitechapel Childhood
  24. Lucinda Douglas-Menzies’ Portraits
  25. My Cousin, Ned Despard – Hero Or Traitor?
  26. Peter Minter, Brickmaker
  27. At The Drapers’ Hall
  28. Max Levitas, Veteran Of The Battle Of Cable St
  29. Beattie Orwell, Veteran Of The Battle Of Cable St
  30. Solidarity On The Streets

September 2026

  1. The Oxford Sausage
  2. Richard Jefferies In The City Of London
  3. My Quilt
  4. Vivian Betts Of Bishopsgate
  5. Charles Chusseau-Flaviens’ Petticoat Lane
  6. The Doors Of Old London
  7. Hackney Mosaic Project At Surrey Docks Farm
  8. Save Hackney Mosaic Project
  9. Arful Nessa, Gardener
  10. Sarsparilla & Mineral Water Sellers
  11. In The Orchards At Brogdale
  12. John Thomas Smith’s Rural Cottages
  13. Tom Fellows, London’s Oldest Cabbie
  14. At The Pearly Kings & Queens Harvest Festival
  15. At The Cinema Museum
  16. In Search Of Roman London
  17. On Top Of Britannic House With Lew Tassell
  18. The Language Of Beer
  19. Betty Levy Of Petticoat Lane
  20. Thomas Rowlandson’s Cries Of London
  21. A Long Way From Spitalfields
  22. John Allin, Artist
  23. At The Shops With Tony Hall
  24. The East End In The Afternoon
  25. David Mason, Wilton’s Music Hall
  26. The Gentle Author’s Writing Course
  27. A Is For Apple Pie
  28. Derrick Porter, Hoxton Poet
  29. A Walk Along The Ridgeway
  30. Peta Bridle’s London Day By Day

August 2026

  1. Blackie, The Last Spitalfields Market Cat
  2. The Highdays & Holidays Of Old London
  3. So Long, Martin White
  4. The Old City Of London
  5. Seventeenth Annual Report
  6. Relics At St Paul’s From Before The Fire
  7. The Language Of Printers
  8. On The Beat With PC Lew Tassell
  9. In City Churchyards
  10. East End Desire Paths
  11. From Shoeburyness To Chalkwell
  12. Peta Bridle’s City Of London Sketchbook
  13. Whitechapel Lads
  14. Old London Trade Cards
  15. Roy Wild, Hop Picker
  16. Hop Picking Portraits
  17. Hop Picking Season
  18. Tom Vowden, Stained Glass Conservator
  19. Chris Miles’ East End
  20. Terry Barns, Knot Tyer
  21. Inside The Model Of St Paul’s
  22. The Stranger’s Guide To London
  23. Marion Elliot’s Pictorial Guide To Rural Crafts
  24. The Lost World Of The Alleys
  25. Henry Silk’s Still Life
  26. Colin O’Brien In Whitechapel
  27. The Drawing Rooms Of Old London
  28. At Fulham Palace
  29. A Visit From Viscountess Boudicca
  30. Misericords At Katherine’s Chapel

July 2026

  1. The Antiquarian Bookshops Of Old London
  2. The Jungle On The Corner Of Princelet St
  3. At Herne Bay
  4. At Walthamstow Pump House
  5. At St Augustine’s Tower
  6. Fred Iles, Meter Fixer
  7. Summer At Arnold Circus
  8. The Tree Huts Of Epping Forest
  9. Marie Iles, Machinist
  10. George Cruikshank’s Summer In London
  11. A Voyage On the Raybel
  12. Swan Upping On The Thames
  13. Summer At Bow Cemetery
  14. At Waltham Abbey
  15. At The Smithfield Institute
  16. The Wallpapers Of Spitalfields
  17. In Old Rotherhithe
  18. Wonderful London’s East End
  19. John Claridge’s French House Portraits
  20. Sheila Bell Of Great Eastern Buildings
  21. Dragan Novaković’s Club Row
  22. David Carpenter, Maker Of Glass Eyes
  23. Lost Spitalfields
  24. Phillip Lucas, Collector
  25. Kurt Hutton, Photographer
  26. Visit Nicholas Culpeper’s Spitalfields
  27. David Johnson’s East End
  28. The Gentle Author’s Tour Of Whitechapel
  29. On The Semiquincentennial
  30. The Last Days Of London
  31. Edith Tudor-Hart, Photographer

June 2026

  1. The Markets Of Old London
  2. At Cranbrook Community Food Garden
  3. David Johnson’s Cafes
  4. Remembering Mr Pussy In the Dog Days
  5. At Kaymet, Tray & Trolley Makers
  6. In The Lavender Fields Of Surrey
  7. Typefounders Of East London
  8. Charles Jones, Photographer
  9. Cockney Beanos
  10. Ron McCormick’s Whitechapel
  11. Midsummer With The Druids
  12. Inside Spitalfields’ Oldest Building
  13. Receipts From Old Whitechapel
  14. The Executions Of Old London
  15. At Minto Place, Bethnal Green
  16. Clive Murphy, Snapper
  17. At The Royal Naval College In Greenwich
  18. Cecile Moss Of Old Montague St
  19. Secrets Of St Anne’s, Limehouse
  20. Doreen Fletcher In Her Own Words
  21. At Benjamin Truman’s House
  22. Raju Vaidyanathan, Photographer
  23. Moyra Peralta’s Worldly Goods
  24. London Characters
  25. Doreen Fletcher’s New Paintings
  26. Phyllis Bray, Artist
  27. George Parrin, Ice Cream Seller
  28. At The House Of Dreams
  29. Adrian Amos, Architectural Salvage Dealer
  30. John Claridge’s Working People & A Dog

May 2026

  1. John Claridge’s Boxers
  2. John Claridge At The Whitechapel Bell Foundry
  3. A Few Pints With John Claridge
  4. John Claridge’s Nation Of Shopkeepers
  5. Along The Thames With John Claridge
  6. John Claridge In His Own Words
  7. So Long, John Claridge
  8. Mr Pussy In Summer
  9. Whistler In Wapping
  10. East End Desire Paths
  11. In A Well In Spitalfields
  12. Lucinda Douglas-Menzies At Butler’s Wharf
  13. Chris Kelly’s Cable St Gardeners In Colour
  14. Chris Kelly’s Cable St Gardeners
  15. Our Crowdfund Triumph!
  16. The Chicken Shops Of Spitalfields
  17. The Lost World Of Three Colts Lane
  18. Sarah Ainslie’s Food Producer Portraits
  19. Kyriacos Hadjikyriacou, Pleater
  20. Sarah Ainslie’s Wardobe Portraits
  21. A Heartwarming Response
  22. The Spitalfields Roman Woman
  23. Harry Thomas, Baker & Musician
  24. Final Week Of Our Crowdfund
  25. At Sutton House
  26. Birds Of Hoxton
  27. Piotr Frac, Stained Glass Artist
  28. Sarah Ainslie, Photographer
  29. At The Punch & Judy Festival
  30. Stepney’s Lost Mansions
  31. Nicholas Culpeper, Herbalist Of Spitalfields

April 2026

  1. On International Workers’ Day
  2. On The Eve Of May Day
  3. Paul Anthony Gardner’s East End
  4. Alie Touw’s Life In Britain
  5. Alie Touw’s War
  6. Alie Touw, Centenarian
  7. Thomas Newington’s Recipes
  8. Shaun Caton’s Songs Seldom Heard
  9. At Paul Rothe & Sons
  10. Vagabondiana
  11. At Oitij-jo Kitchen
  12. East End Women At Work In Black And White
  13. East End Women At Work
  14. Help Me Publish A Book Of Sarah Ainslie’s Women At Work
  15. William Kent’s Arch In Bow
  16. Andy Strowman Remembers His Uncle Barney
  17. Alan Shipp, Hyacinth Grower
  18. Cockney Cats
  19. Cockney Ding Dong
  20. Fran May’s Brick Lane Market
  21. In The Orchards Of Kent
  22. John Claridge’s East End Portraits
  23. The Inescapable Melancholy Of Phone Boxes
  24. The Silent Traveller
  25. The Return Of Lorna Brunstein
  26. Bluebells At Bow
  27. Viscount Boudica’s Easter
  28. Ann Sotheran’s West End Champions
  29. The Ceremony Of The Widow’s Buns
  30. The Tower Of Old London

March 2026

  1. A Walk Along The Black Path
  2. David Hoffman’s Easter In Stepney
  3. Arful Nessa’s Sewing Machine
  4. The Auriculas Of Spitalfields
  5. The Pied Wagtails Of Bishopsgate
  6. Charles Spurgeon’s Street Traders
  7. East End Blossom Time
  8. The Hackney Yearbook, 1906
  9. Pedro Da Costa, Lacquer & Paint Specialist
  10. William Whiffin, Photographer
  11. John Dempsey’s Street Portraits
  12. Spring Book Sale
  13. The Citrus Trees Of Spitalfields
  14. Barnett Freedman’s Street Scene
  15. In Chinese Limehouse
  16. John Olney, Donovan Brothers
  17. Jeffrey Johnson’s Forgotten Corners
  18. On Mothering Sunday
  19. Anthony Cairns’ East End Pubs
  20. The Tercentenary Of Sir John Vanbrugh
  21. David Hoffman At St Botoloph’s
  22. So Long, Rev Dr Malcolm Johnson
  23. Geoffrey Fletcher’s Pavement Pounders
  24. Sarah Ainslie’s Hatton Garden Portraits
  25. Photos From London’s Oldest Ironmonger
  26. So Long, Bobby Cummines OBE
  27. The Bakers Of Widegate St
  28. Barry Weston’s Blues Dances
  29. A Door In Cornhill
  30. When John Claridge Met Tommy Cooper
  31. At The Fan Museum
  32. At The Pellicci Museum

February 2026

  1. At The Jewish Soup Kitchen
  2. At Paul Pindar’s House
  3. Chinnee Kaur, My Mum
  4. The Trade Cards Of Old London
  5. The Coalholes Of Spitalfields
  6. Spring Bulbs At Bow Cemetery
  7. Libby Hall, Photographer
  8. The Relics Of Old St Paul’s
  9. A Revelation In The Mile End Road
  10. At The West India Docks Impounding Station
  11. Stanley Rondeau At The V&A
  12. So Long, Stanley Rondeau
  13. The Return Of Walter Donohue’s Screenwriting Course
  14. Viscountess Boudica’s Valentine’s Day
  15. Mike Henbrey’s Vinegar Valentines
  16. Joyce Edwards’ Squatter Portraits
  17. Receipts From London’s Oldest Ironmonger
  18. In Search Of The Rope Makers Of Stepney
  19. Frost Bros, Rope Makers & Yarn Spinners
  20. Henry Mayhew’s Street Traders
  21. The Metropolitan Machinists’ Co, 1905
  22. The Gentle Author’s Wapping Pub Crawl
  23. Surma Centre Portraits
  24. So Long, Nelson St Synagogue
  25. Stephen Watts, Poet
  26. Colin O’Brien’s Clerkenwell Car Crashes
  27. Stephen Gill’s Trolley Portraits

January 2026

  1. Vanishing London
  2. An Alternative Scheme For Liverpool St Station
  3. Colin O’Brien, Photographer
  4. Barry Rogg Of Rogg’s Delicatessen
  5. James Boswell, Artist
  6. Tony Bock At Watney Market
  7. At The Annual Grimaldi Service
  8. The Principal Operations Of Weaving
  9. Eva Frankfurther, Artist
  10. Gillian Tindall’s Lost People
  11. The Metropolitan Machinists’ Company Catalogue
  12. Signs Of Life
  13. The Triumph Of Populations Bakery
  14. C A Mathew’s Spitalfields
  15. Crowden & Keeves’ Catalogue
  16. A Conversation With Milly Rich
  17. At Hiller Bros
  18. The Forgotten Corners Of Old London
  19. Chaplin In The East End
  20. ‘No Enemy But Winter And Rough Weather’
  21. At God’s Convenience
  22. Old Chestnut Trees In Greenwich Park
  23. The Keeper Of Dead Signs
  24. The Trade Of The Gardener
  25. The Romance Of Old Bishopsgate
  26. The Hoxton Chronicle
  27. Phil Maxwell In Liverpool
  28. The Kiosks Of Whitechapel
  29. So Long, Grace Payne
  30. The Gates Of The City
  31. The Flowers Of 2025

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December 2025

  1. So Long, Schrodinger
  2. The Gentle Author’s Writing Weekend
  3. Night City By W S Graham
  4. Some Christmas Baubles
  5. The Robin’s Christmas
  6. The Ghosts Of Old London
  7. On Christmas Day
  8. On Christmas Night In The City
  9. The Smithfield Meat Auction
  10. Christmas At The Salvation Army
  11. Gillian Tindall At The White Chapel
  12. Shopping In Old London
  13. My History Of The Cries Of London
  14. Mr Pussy In Winter
  15. Midwinter Light at Christ Church
  16. The Oxford Sausage
  17. Christmas At St Hilda’s
  18. Some Poems By Sally Flood
  19. Happy 100th Birthday, Sally Flood
  20. Robson Cezar’s Solar-Powered Houses From Whitechapel Market
  21. At Two Temple Place
  22. Bug Woman London
  23. The Streets Of Old London
  24. William Oglethorpe, Cheesemaker
  25. Gillian Tindall In Ship Tavern Passage
  26. Spitalfields Life Books For Christmas
  27. Seen By Meg Khan
  28. Leo Epstein, Epra Fabrics
  29. Dennis & Christine Reeve, Walnut Farmers
  30. At The Savoy Chapel
  31. In Old Stepney

November 2025

  1. Gillian Tindall In the East End
  2. Marion Elliot’s New Papercuts
  3. Dee Tocqueville, Lollipop Lady
  4. A Walk Through Walter Thornbury’s London
  5. Tony Bock’s East Enders
  6. The Lost Squares Of Stepney
  7. My Coin Collection
  8. Colin Thubron Remembers Gillian Tindall
  9. Gustave Doré’s East End
  10. Charles W Cushman’s London
  11. George Cruikshank’s London In Winter
  12. At Stationers’ Hall
  13. The Nights Of Old London
  14. Dorothy Annan’s Murals At The Barbican
  15. In Search Of Flower & Dean St
  16. The Gentle Author’s Winter Walks
  17. John Vanbrugh in Greenwich
  18. The Great Cat & Dog Massacre
  19. From ‘Journal Of A Man Unknown’
  20. The Maiden Voyage Of The Raybel
  21. The Education Of Audrey Kneller
  22. So Long, Audrey Kneller
  23. At House Of Annetta
  24. Tessa Hunkin’s Hackney Mosaic Lectures
  25. On Publication Day For ‘Journal Of A Man Unknown’
  26. Maurice Evans, Firework Collector
  27. Invitation To The Launch of ‘Journal Of A Man Unknown’
  28. Taylor’s Buttons & Belts Is Saved!
  29. Bloomsbury Jamboree Lectures 2025
  30. Bloomsbury Jamboree 2025

October 2025

  1. Save Taylor’s Buttons & Belts
  2. Upon The Nature Of Terror
  3. The Dance Of Death
  4. The Dead Man In Clerkenwell
  5. Marion Elliot’s Halloween Alphabet
  6. At The Archbishops’ Palace In Charing
  7. Roy Gardner’s Sales Tickets
  8. At Great Eastern Buildings
  9. Jimmy Pollock, Fruit & Vegetable Wholesaler
  10. Ron McCormick’s East End
  11. The Bread, Cake & Biscuit Walk
  12. A World Apart: East End 1970-1976
  13. Last Days At W.F. Arber & Co
  14. At W. F. Arber & Co, Printing Works
  15. So Long, Gary Arber
  16. Marie Lenclos In Columbia Rd
  17. Businesses In Bishopsgate, 1892
  18. A Walk With Mavis Bullwinkle
  19. Roy Wild, Van Boy
  20. Sarah Ainslie, From Limehouse To Tilbury
  21. The Staircases Of Old London
  22. The Broderers Of St Paul’s
  23. Jeffrey Johnson’s Favourite Pubs
  24. At Margolis Silver
  25. At Embassy Electrical Supplies
  26. The Harvest Festival Of The Sea
  27. Spitalfields & Whitechapel In Old Photographs
  28. Lesley Lewis, The French House
  29. Journal Of a Man Unknown By Gillian Tindall
  30. On Publication Day For Tessa Hunkin’s Hackney Mosaic Project

September 2025

  1. Joy Harris, Dressmaker
  2. At St Bartholomew The Great
  3. Jagmohan Bhakar, Rotarian
  4. A Lost Corner Of Whitechapel
  5. The Tragical Death Of An Apple Pie
  6. Libby Hall’s Dogs Of Old London
  7. The Spitalfields Bowl
  8. Suresh Singh’s Tank Top
  9. Martin White, Textile Consultant
  10. Philip Cunningham’s Shopfronts
  11. A Public Inquiry Into The Truman Brewery Redevelopment
  12. George Cossington, Steeplejack
  13. At The Pearlies’ Harvest Festival
  14. Watermen’s Stairs
  15. Small Trades Scraps
  16. The Markets Of Old London
  17. So Long, Jil Cove
  18. Walter Donohue, Director, Editor, Producer & Publisher
  19. Invitation To The Launch Of Tessa Hunkin’s Hackney Mosaic Project Book
  20. The Bookshops Of Old London
  21. The Dandy’s Perambulations
  22. In The Orchards Of Kent
  23. Sarah Ainslie’s Power Of Food Portraits
  24. Two New Courses For Winter
  25. Suresh Singh’s Spitalfields
  26. At Canvey Island
  27. At Anna Maria Garthwaite’s House
  28. Two Lost Breweries Of Whitechapel
  29. Paul Bommer’s Huguenot Plaque
  30. The Motor Mechanics Of Bow

August 2025

  1. At St Andrew’s Chapel, Boxley
  2. Sarah Ainslie’s Somali Portraits
  3. Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Churches
  4. Fran May’s Brick Lane
  5. At Bethnal Green Weightlifting Club
  6. The Loneliness Of Schrodinger
  7. At 38 Princelet St
  8. Bill Crome, Spitalfields Window Cleaner
  9. Thomas Newington’s Recipes
  10. At Gravesend
  11. Sixteenth Annual Report
  12. At Dirty Dick’s
  13. Fred Iles, Meter Fixer
  14. Lyndie Wright, Puppeteer
  15. Doreen Fletcher’s Early Drawings
  16. Terry Bloomfield, Fish Dealer & Photographer
  17. Billy & Charley’s Leaden Men
  18. Hop Picking Portraits
  19. Hop Picking Photographs
  20. Roy Wild, Hop Picker
  21. The Lives Of the Spitalfields Nippers
  22. The Dinners Of Old London
  23. A Visit To Great Tom At St Paul’s
  24. The Secrets Of Christ Church
  25. Glenys Bristow In Spitalfields
  26. Sebastian Harding’s Architectural Models
  27. The Signs Of Old London
  28. Parkash Kaur, Shopkeeper
  29. Summer At Bow Cemetery
  30. At The London Library
  31. David Prescott Of Commercial St

July 2025

  1. So Long, Paddy Handscombe
  2. The Language Of Printing
  3. Sally Flood, Poet
  4. Charles Booth’s Spitalfields
  5. At Abbey Wood
  6. A Couple Of Pints With Tony Hall
  7. Old Mother Hubbard & Her Wonderful Dog
  8. At St Botolph’s School House
  9. The Stepney School Strike
  10. In Old Spitalfields
  11. Will The Truman Brewery Become Homes Or Offices?
  12. At Victoria Park Model Boat Club
  13. Cockney Beanos
  14. Tree Huts In Epping Forest
  15. At Waltham Abbey
  16. Nicholas Culpeper’s Spitalfields
  17. Swan Upping On The Thames
  18. At Chatham Royal Dockyard
  19. Lucy Hart, Head Gardener At Fulham Palace
  20. An Afternoon In Great Bardfield
  21. The Last Days Of London
  22. The Stranger’s Guide To London
  23. A Trip To London
  24. At The Caslon Letter Foundry
  25. Save Leila’s Shop
  26. In Old Rotherhithe
  27. Music Hall Artistes Of Abney Park Cemetery
  28. Ron McCormick’s Spitalfields
  29. At Billingsgate Roman Bath House
  30. Ed Gray’s Streetlife Serenade
  31. My Night On Liverpool St Station

June 2025

  1. Happy 100th Birthday, Peggy Metaxas!
  2. Mr Pussy In Summer
  3. Wonderful London’s East End
  4. Liverpool St Station In The 20th Century & Beyond
  5. George Fuest, Baker
  6. Tiles By William Godwin Of Lugwardine
  7. At The Monument
  8. In The Lavender Fields Of Surrey
  9. Clive Murphy, Oral Historian
  10. At Old Liverpool St Station
  11. Last Chance To Save Liverpool St Station From The Monster Block
  12. Skilton’s London Life
  13. Visit Robson Cezar’s Studio In Bow
  14. Tony Hall’s East End In The Afternoon
  15. Eleanor Crow’s Falling Light
  16. From Viscountess Boudica’s Album
  17. From Henrietta Keeper’s Album
  18. From Clive Murphy’s Album
  19. From Andy Stroman’s Album
  20. At Goldsmiths’ Hall
  21. The Spitalfields Roman Woman
  22. St John At Spitalfields City Farm
  23. George Dodd’s Spitalfields, 1842
  24. Tony Jack, Truman’s Brewery Chauffeur
  25. Pamela Cilia, ‘Bottling Girl’
  26. George Cruikshank’s London Summer
  27. The Pointe Shoe Makers Of Hackney
  28. My London Festival Of Architecture Lecture
  29. A London Herbal
  30. The Pumps Of Old London

May 2025

  1. George Gladwell’s Columbia Rd Market
  2. At David Kira Ltd, Banana Merchants
  3. East End Desire Paths
  4. Philip Mernick’s East End Shopfronts
  5. At Dr Johnson’s House
  6. St Mary Stratford Atte Bow
  7. In City Churchyards
  8. John Allin, Painter
  9. Visit The Secret Gardens Of Spitalfields
  10. Chris Kelly’s Cable St Gardeners
  11. Working People & A Dog
  12. A Fireplace In Fournier St
  13. At The Eagle Tavern
  14. In Search Of The Yiddish East End
  15. Crowdfund Report
  16. The Docks Of Old London
  17. Sarah Ainslie In Covent Garden
  18. William Morris’ East End
  19. At Kelmscott House, Hammersmith
  20. Dorothy Bishop, Artist & Teacher
  21. Andy Strowman, Poet
  22. Harry The Pencil’s Sketchbook
  23. Firefighter Artists Of The Blitz
  24. A Shaggy Dog Tale
  25. VE Day, Patched Narratives
  26. Alfred Daniels, Artist
  27. John Thomas Smith’s Antiquities Of Old London
  28. A Letter From The Gentle Author
  29. A Walk With Shloimy Alman
  30. The Queenhithe Mosaic
  31. Laurie Allen Of Petticoat Lane

April 2025

  1. Hackney Mosaic Project’s Magnum Opus
  2. Sophie Charalambous, Artist
  3. In Petticoat Lane
  4. In Search Of Shakespeare’s London
  5. A Few Of Hackney Mosaic Project’s Greatest Hits
  6. Hackney Mosaic Project At London Zoo
  7. Stitches In Time At St Anne’s, Limehouse
  8. Hackney Mosaic Project In Regent’s Park
  9. William Kent’s Arch In Bow
  10. At The Garden Of Hope
  11. Viscountess Boudica’s Easter
  12. David Hoffman’s Easter In Stepney
  13. An Interview With Tessa Hunkin
  14. The Ceremony Of The Widow’s Sixpence
  15. The Hounds Of Hackney Downs
  16. Bluebells At Bow
  17. Easter Procession In Stepney
  18. The Mosaic Makers Of Hackney
  19. Spring At Spitalfields City Farm
  20. Help Me Publish A Book Of Tessa Hunkin’s Hackney Mosaic Project
  21. Tony Armstrong Jones’ East End
  22. In Stepney, 1963
  23. John Thomas Smith’s Vagabondiana
  24. Meandering Along The Lea
  25. Kevin O’ Brien, Retired Roadsweeper
  26. Dennis Anthony’s Petticoat Lane
  27. George Dickinson, Sales Manager At Jackie Brafman’s
  28. A Walk Around The Docks With Lew Tassell
  29. At KTS The Corner
  30. At The Hippodrome

March 2025

  1. Along The Black Path
  2. East End Blossom Time
  3. The Gentle Author’s Tour Of Petticoat Lane
  4. Nature In London
  5. The Auriculas Of Spitalfields
  6. Chris Miles’ East End
  7. Keren Luchtenstein’s Cafes
  8. Stepney Old People’s Welfare Association
  9. Peter Minter, Brick Maker
  10. Thomas Bewick’s Cat
  11. Thomas Bewick’s Birds Of Spitalfields
  12. Cruikshank’s London Almanack, 1835
  13. Roland Collins’ East End
  14. At Chiswick House
  15. In Old Bow
  16. Spitalfields In Kodachrome
  17. Jimmy Huddart, Spitalfields Market Porter
  18. Sylvester Mittee, Welterweight Boxer
  19. Terry Scales, Painter
  20. At The Pet Cemetery
  21. The Weathervanes Of The City
  22. Alan Shipp, Hyacinth Grower
  23. Caroline Gilfillan & Andrew Scott’s East End
  24. Robert Green In Sclater St Market
  25. The River Thames Of Old London
  26. Vera Hullyer, Parishioner Of St Dunstan’s
  27. More Spires Of City Churches
  28. The Consolation Of Schrodinger
  29. Dicky Lumskull’s Ramble Through London
  30. Tower Hamlets Adverts 1967
  31. Postcards From Petticoat Lane
  32. Inside The Model Of St Paul’s

February 2025

  1. In The Roof Of St Paul’s Cathedral
  2. Spires Of City Churches
  3. The Kiosks Of Whitechapel
  4. Israel Bidermanas’ London
  5. Peta Bridle’s Shops
  6. Introducing Walter Donohue
  7. Burdekin’s London Nights
  8. Remembering Joan Lauder, Cat Lady Of Spitalfields
  9. Spring Bulbs At Bow Cemetery
  10. Cecil Osborne’s Murals At Camden Town Hall
  11. The Degradation Of The Whitechapel Bell Foundry
  12. In Celebration Of Cockney Yiddish
  13. The Spitalfields Nobody Knows
  14. William Nicolson’s London Types
  15. Viscountess Boudica’s Valentine’s Day
  16. Walter Donohue’s Screenwriting Course
  17. Love Tokens From The Thames
  18. Ebbe Sadolin’s London
  19. David O’Mara’s Spitalfields
  20. Barbara Jezewska, Teacher
  21. The Bridges Of Old London
  22. Before & After In Fournier St
  23. A Brief History Of Smithfield Market
  24. Ten Years Of Novelty Automation
  25. Jack Corbett, London’s Oldest Fireman
  26. Alan Dein’s East End Shops
  27. Clerkenwell Car Crashes
  28. Minor Stepney Disasters Of The Seventies

January 2025

  1. The Juvenile Almanack
  2. At Bevis Marks Synagogue
  3. Signs Of Life
  4. Along The Regent’s Canal From Shoreditch To Paddington
  5. Along The Regent’s Canal
  6. Frank Derrett’s West End
  7. Lew Tassell’s Day Trip
  8. So Long, Terry’s Tropicals
  9. Art, Documentary & Resistance In The Thirties
  10. How To Make Rout Cakes
  11. Old Trees In Richmond Park
  12. ‘No Enemy But Winter And Rough Weather’
  13. At The Mansion House
  14. At The Golden Heart
  15. In Old Globetown
  16. John Thomas Smith’s Antient Topography
  17. Orange Wrappers
  18. T. Venables & Sons’ Almanack
  19. Thomas Barnes, Photographer
  20. Flowers Of 2024
  21. In Search Of Daniel Defoe
  22. David Power In Spitalfields
  23. So Long, David Power
  24. Panto Time!
  25. In The Winter Garden
  26. A Final Walk Home
  27. On Twelfth Night
  28. Cherry Gilchrist On Cheshire St
  29. The Story Of Oxford Marmalade
  30. Planting Diaries
  31. The Gates Of The City

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December 2024

  1. Night At The Beigel Bakery
  2. The Gentle Author’s Writing Weekend
  3. So Long, Old Town
  4. Viscountess Boudica’s Christmas
  5. Old Christmas Baubles
  6. The Ghosts Of Old London
  7. On Christmas Day
  8. The Robin’s Christmas Eve
  9. At Smithfield On Christmas Eve
  10. Spitalfields Market Parties Of Yesteryear
  11. Christmas At E Pellicci
  12. Christmas At The Salvation Army
  13. Christmas With Dennis Severs
  14. Fritz Wegner’s Christmas Plates
  15. Courage, Crime & Charity In The City Of London
  16. The Battle For Liverpool St Station
  17. Festive Tours & Gift Vouchers
  18. Spitalfields Life Books For Christmas
  19. George Cruikshank’s Festive Season
  20. Hairdressers Of The Eighties
  21. Robson Cezar’s Affordable Solar-Powered Houses
  22. Remembering Mr Pussy In Winter
  23. The Shops Of Old London
  24. Bug Woman London
  25. Joan Brown, The First Woman At Smithfield Market
  26. Around Old Billingsgate
  27. Roy Reed At Old Billingsgate Market
  28. A Night At Billingsgate Market
  29. The Last Porters Of Billingsgate Market
  30. Simon Costin, The Museum Of British Folklore
  31. Bloomsbury Jamboree Lectures

November 2024

  1. Bloomsbury Jamboree 2024
  2. The Closure Of Smithfield Market
  3. Dan Jones At Bethnal Green Library
  4. The Streets Of Old London
  5. The Forgotten Corners Of Old London
  6. The Loneliness Of Old London
  7. The Markets Of Old London
  8. The Nights Of Old London
  9. Remembering A Hoxton Childhood
  10. Furniture Trade Cards Of Old London
  11. At St Botolph Without Aldgate
  12. David Hoffman At St Botolph’s In Colour
  13. David Hoffman At St Hildas
  14. Dennis Anthony’s Petticoat Lane
  15. Tower Hamlets Women For Peace
  16. Old Dame Trot & Her Comical Cat
  17. David Hoffman’s East End
  18. Henry Silk’s Still Life
  19. Mickey Davis At The Fruit & Wool Exchange
  20. Samuel Pepys At St Olave’s
  21. The Pubs Of Old London
  22. David Hoffman Speaks
  23. On Night Patrol With PC Lew Tassell
  24. Mary Burd, Clinical Psychologist
  25. Jeffery Johnson’s Favourite Signs
  26. In William Blake’s Lambeth
  27. James Mackinnon, Artist
  28. Booker T. Washington In Petticoat Lane
  29. David Hoffman At St Botolph’s
  30. Peter Bellerby, Globe Maker

October 2024

  1. Upon The Nature Of Terror
  2. Luke Clennell’s Dance Of Death
  3. Chinnee Kaur, My Mum
  4. Lewis Lupton In Spitalfields
  5. David Hoffman In Cheshire St Market
  6. In Search Of The Alleys Of Old London
  7. Piotr Frac, Stained Glass Artist
  8. The Little Visitors
  9. The Cabbies’ Shelters Of Old London
  10. From Ken Sequin’s Badge Collection
  11. In Search Of Grinling Gibbons
  12. Charles Keeping’s Cockney Ding Dong
  13. The Fogs & Smogs Of Old London
  14. The Dead Man In Clerkenwell
  15. On Publication Day For Endurance & Joy In The East End
  16. Lost Spitalfields
  17. Vanishing London
  18. Endurance & Joy At The Museum Of The Home
  19. The Battle For The Truman Brewery
  20. Richard Swallow’s Spitalfields Doors
  21. The Doors Of Old London
  22. A Ramble Through Long Forgotten London
  23. William Henry Knapp’s Memoir
  24. Benjamin Shapiro Of Quaker St
  25. Judith Piepe In The East End
  26. The Gentle Author’s Writing Course
  27. The Tragical Death Of An Apple Pie
  28. Remembering Rogg’s Delicatessen
  29. Clive Murphy’s Matchbox Labels
  30. Rose At The Golden Heart

September 2024

  1. Cruikshank At The Tower Of London
  2. Blues Dances
  3. The Return Of Benjamin Pollock
  4. An Invitation From The Gentle Author
  5. Down A Well In Spitalfields
  6. Harry T Harmer, Artist
  7. John Thomas Smith’s Rural Cottages
  8. Colin O’Brien At Chats Palace
  9. Marie Lenclos’ Still Light
  10. Conservation At St Bartholomew’s Hospital
  11. Purim In Stamford Hill
  12. So Long, Maxie Lea MBE
  13. Susannah Dalbiac’s Diary, 1776
  14. At Ben Truman’s House
  15. My Quilt
  16. John Dempsey’s Portraits
  17. Endurance & Joy in the East End 1971-1987
  18. Hélène Binet At St Anne’s, Limehouse
  19. John Thomas Smith’s Antiquities Of Old London
  20. Some Favourite Nicholas Borden Paintings
  21. Crowdfund Report
  22. Pavement Pounders
  23. Cyril Mann, Painter
  24. The Brady Girls At The Brady Centre
  25. Derrick Porter, Hoxton Poet
  26. Jude Rosen’s Poems Of Place
  27. Nicholas Borden’s Stoke Newington Paintings
  28. The Roundels Of Spitalfields
  29. In The Orchards Of Kent
  30. Arful Nessa’s Sewing Machine

August 2024

  1. The Pleasures & Miseries Of London
  2. At Aldgate Pump
  3. At Walton On The Naze
  4. A Walk Along The Ridgeway
  5. A Walk From Shoeburyness To Chalkwell
  6. At Sandwich
  7. A Walk From Dover To Folkestone
  8. A Walk Along The White Cliffs
  9. At Herne Bay
  10. Fifteenth Annual Report
  11. At The Halal Restaurant
  12. David Hoffman At The Wet Shelter
  13. Cat Women
  14. The Petticoat Lane Mosaic
  15. Beano Season
  16. Roy Wild, Hop Picker
  17. Hopping Portraits
  18. Hopping Season
  19. An Exhibition Of David Hoffman’s East End Photography
  20. The Holloway Meteorite
  21. The Wallpapers Of Spitalfields
  22. Tony Hall, Photographer
  23. Billy & Charley’s Shadwell Shams
  24. Maxie Lea MB, Football Referee
  25. At Eel Pie Island
  26. Dan Jones’ East End Portraits
  27. So Long, Terry O’ Leary
  28. Charles Jones, Photographer & Gardener
  29. Ted Vanner, Model Steam Boat Pioneer
  30. Michelle Attfield, Pointe Shoe Fitter
  31. George Cruikshank’s London Summer

July 2024

  1. Audrey Kneller Of Elder St
  2. Peter Rayner, Baker, Bell Tuner & Train Driver
  3. The Gentle Author’s Tour Of Ghastly Facades
  4. Remembering Mr Pussy In Summer
  5. Colin O’Brien In Brick Lane Market
  6. Philip Cunningham’s Pub Crawl
  7. ‘Smilin’ Sammy McCarthy, Featherweight Boxer
  8. A Conversation With Milly Rich
  9. Blackie, The Last Spitalfields Market Cat
  10. Marie Iles, Machinist
  11. Javed Iqbal, TV Repair Man
  12. Manny Silverman, Tailor
  13. At The Two Puddings
  14. At Highgate Cemetery
  15. Taverns Of Long Forgotten London
  16. David Garrick In The East End
  17. Bobby Prentice, Waterman & Lighterman
  18. Swan Upping On the Thames
  19. Graffiti At The Tower Of London
  20. Nicholas Culpeper, Herbalist Of Spitalfields
  21. Marion Elliott’s Latest Designs
  22. A Flight In A Tiger Moth
  23. In Itchy Park With Jack London
  24. Terry Smith, Envelope Cutter
  25. Crudgie, Motorcyclist
  26. Fran May’s Brick Lane Market
  27. E. O. Hoppé’s Londoners
  28. The Bengali Photo Archive
  29. Summer At Bow Cemetery
  30. The Tale Of John Crosby
  31. More Trade Cards Of Old London

June 2024

  1. In The Lavender Fields Of Surrey
  2. At Waterbeach
  3. Julius Mendes Price’s London Types
  4. Dee Tocqueville, Lollipop Lady
  5. Lorna Brunstein Of Black Lion Yard
  6. The Cries Of London
  7. Hester Mallin, Artist
  8. Whistler In Limehouse & Wapping
  9. Dennis Anthony’s Petticoat Lane
  10. Paul Sandby’s Cries Of London, 1760
  11. Joan Naylor Of Bellevue Place
  12. The Markets Of Old London
  13. A Walk With Suresh Singh
  14. So Long, Chris Georgiou
  15. James Boswell’s East End
  16. In Old Holborn
  17. Moyra Peralta At Crispin St Night Shelter
  18. Moyra Peralta’s Portraits
  19. So Long, Moyra Peralta
  20. At Fulham Palace
  21. George Parrin, Ice Cream Seller
  22. A Walk In The City With PC Lew Tassell
  23. Postcards From Petticoat Lane
  24. Margaret Rope’s East End Saints
  25. Peri Parkes’ East End
  26. David Johnson’s Cafes
  27. David Johnson’s East End
  28. Doreen Fletcher’s Early Paintings
  29. The Creeping Plague Of Ghastly Facadism
  30. Visit The Secret Gardens Of Spitalfields

May 2024

  1. So Long, The Gallant
  2. Doreen Fletcher’s Spitalfields Paintings
  3. The War On Vice In The East End
  4. Malcolm Johnson At St Botolph’s
  5. Tony Bock’s East Enders
  6. The East End Suffragette Map
  7. In Search Of The Ropemakers Of Stepney
  8. Raphael Samuel’s Farewell To Spitalfields
  9. Syd Shelton’s East End
  10. What The Gentle Author Did Next
  11. Peter Riley, Kitchen Porter & Cleaner
  12. At The Charterhouse
  13. At The Fan Museum
  14. Remembering London’s Oldest Ironmonger
  15. Tony Hall’s Shops
  16. Maureen Rose, Button Maker
  17. At Eastbury Manor House
  18. Christopher Marlowe In Norton Folgate
  19. Stepney Old People’s Welfare Association
  20. At John Keats’ House
  21. How Mile End Place Was Saved
  22. William Morris In The East End
  23. Among The Pagans At Beltane
  24. Henry Croft, Road Sweeper
  25. So Long, Ray Newton
  26. Costakis Costa, Barber At Mario’s
  27. The Relics Of Old St Paul’s
  28. At The Ragged School Museum
  29. John Claridge’s East End Portraits
  30. At The Punch & Judy Festival
  31. The Lost World Of The Alleys

April 2024

  1. Jagmohan Bhakar, Rotarian
  2. In The Orchards Of Kent
  3. Peta Bridle’s City Churches
  4. Markéta Luskačová’s Brick Lane Market
  5. The Auriculas Of Spitalfields
  6. William Kent’s Arch In Bow
  7. The Horticultural History Of The East End
  8. John Stow’s Spittle Fields
  9. Ernest George’s London
  10. Charles Spurgeon’s Londoners
  11. Some People Of Wonderful London
  12. At Postman’s Park
  13. In The Roof Of St Paul’s
  14. At Chu’s Garage
  15. The Microcosm Of London
  16. The Oranges & Lemons Churches
  17. The Inescapable Melancholy Of Phone Boxes
  18. Charles Chusseau-Flaviens’ Petticoat Lane
  19. At Oitij-jo Kitchen
  20. Blossom Time In The East End
  21. Neil Martinson, Photographer
  22. Marcellus Laroon’s Cries Of London
  23. Maurice Sills, Cathedral Treasure
  24. James Leman’s Album Of Silk Designs
  25. At Mile End Place
  26. Bluebells At Bow Cemetery
  27. Terry Barns, Knot Tyer
  28. My Pilgrimage Along The Black Path
  29. Cruikshank’s London Almanack, 1835
  30. At The Monument

March 2024

  1. The Highdays & Holidays Of Old London
  2. My Scrap Collection
  3. East End Letterheads & Receipts
  4. The Way Of The Cross In Stepney
  5. Viscountess Boudica’s Easter
  6. Good Friday At St Bartholmew’s
  7. Easter Procession In Stepney
  8. A Dress Of Spitalfields Silk
  9. Ron McCormick’s Spitalfields
  10. The Coal Holes Of London
  11. Older Women Of Whitechapel
  12. The Dioramas Of Petticoat Lane
  13. The Artists Of The East India Company
  14. The Gentle Author’s Coin Collection
  15. The Gates Of The City Of London
  16. On Sunday Morning
  17. Smithfield Slang
  18. Cockney Cats
  19. The Old River Thames
  20. Along The River Lea
  21. East End Shopfronts
  22. The Bold Defiance
  23. A Visit To Great Tom At St Paul’s
  24. Remembering Helen Taylor-Thompson
  25. Crowden & Keeves’ Hardware
  26. At The Jewish Soup Kitchen
  27. My Spring Shirt
  28. So Long, Bernard Kops
  29. Here We Go Round The Mulberry Cuttings
  30. A Pack Of Knaves
  31. So Long, Michael Myers
  32. At Holy Trinity Church, Bow

February 2024

  1. At God’s Convenience
  2. The World Of The Saree Shops
  3. Whitechapel’s Theatrical Terrace Is Saved, Again
  4. Dog Days At Club Row
  5. Alan Shipp, Hyacinth Grower
  6. In A Dinghy With John Claridge
  7. A Walk Through Dickens’ London
  8. Raju Vaidyanathan’s Brick Lane
  9. Lew Tassell’s Day Trip
  10. Roy Gardner’s Sales Tickets
  11. Jim Howett, Designer
  12. Julie Begum, Someone Still Evolving
  13. Working Lads Of Whitechapel
  14. Tower Hamlets Adverts from 1967
  15. In Praise Of Older Women
  16. Valentine’s Day With Viscountess Boudica
  17. Spring Bulbs At Bow Cemetery
  18. The London Alphabet
  19. Vivian Betts At The Primrose
  20. Joe Lawrence, Butcher & Novelist
  21. Albert Turpin, Painter
  22. Looking Down On Old London
  23. Vinegar Valentines For Bad Traders
  24. Betty Levy Of Petticoat Lane
  25. The Scholar & His Cat, Pangur Bán
  26. Valentine Delights From Dennis Severs’ House
  27. Pellicci’s Celebrity Album
  28. The Interregnum In Spitalfields
  29. In The Winter Garden

January 2024

  1. At Beppe’s Cafe
  2. New Threat Of Demolition For Whitechapel’s Theatrical Terrace
  3. John Claridge’s East End Shops
  4. At Glamis Adventure Playground
  5. Kyriacos Hadjikyriacou, Pleater
  6. Elwin Hawthorne, Artist
  7. First Signs Of Life
  8. Pearl Binder, Artist
  9. Charles W. Cushman’s London
  10. Richard Dighton’s City Characters
  11. Costume of the Metropolis
  12. The Juvenile Almanack
  13. Vagabondiana
  14. Matchbox Models By Lesney
  15. Philip Cunningham’s Portraits
  16. The Silent Traveller
  17. The Kiosks Of Whitechapel
  18. William Anthony, The Last Of The Charlies
  19. Dragan Novaković’s Brick Lane
  20. Oranges & Lemons Wrappers
  21. A Riverside Walk In the Eighties
  22. ‘No Enemy But Winter & Rough Weather’
  23. At The Ceremony Of The Baddeley Cake
  24. Charles Goss’ Vanishing City
  25. A Room To Let In Old Aldgate
  26. A Walk Through Time In Spitalfields
  27. Old Trees In Greenwich Park
  28. The Boundary Estate In Winter
  29. The Gates Of The City

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December 2023

  1. My Flowers Of 2023
  2. Night At The Beigel Bakery
  3. Viscountess Boudica’s Christmas
  4. My Panto Years
  5. The Spitalfields Parties Of Yesteryear
  6. The Ghosts Of Old London
  7. On Christmas Day
  8. The Robin’s Christmas
  9. At Pellicci’s Christmas Party
  10. Fritz Wegner’s Christmas Plates
  11. Christmas With Dennis Severs
  12. The Spitalfields Nativity Procession
  13. Christmas Ravioli At E Pellicci
  14. Christmas At The Salvation Army, 1975
  15. My Winter Walks In the City
  16. The New Christmas Dinner Song
  17. The Smithfield Christmas Eve Meat Auction
  18. The Whitechapel Mission At Christmas
  19. My Old Christmas Decorations
  20. Books For Christmas
  21. In Old Stepney
  22. Robson Cezar’s Solar-Powered Houses From Whitechapel Market
  23. At The Bethnal Green Weightlifting Club
  24. Henrietta Keeper’s Photographs
  25. George Cruikshank’s Christmas In London
  26. Burdekin’s London Nights
  27. At Two Temple Place
  28. Winter Light In Spitalfields
  29. At The Boar’s Head Parade
  30. Eleanor Crow’s East End Ironmongers
  31. George Fuest, Baker

November 2023

  1. Joan Lauder, The Cat Lady Of Spitalfields
  2. The Nights Of Old London
  3. Marion Elliot, Printmaker & Illustrator
  4. No Longer The Last Derelict House
  5. Bloomsbury Jamboree Readings & Talks
  6. Bloomsbury Jamboree 2023
  7. Thomas Onwhyn’s London
  8. Malcolm Tremain’s Spitalfields
  9. Morris Goldstein, The Lost Whitechapel Boy
  10. Rodney Holt, Designer & Set Builder
  11. Edward Bawden On Liverpool St Station
  12. John Thomas Smith’s Rural Cottages
  13. Harry Harris, Lighterman
  14. Sights Of Wonderful London
  15. Lost In Long Forgotten London
  16. Firefighter Artists Of The Blitz
  17. Furniture Trade Cards Of Old London
  18. On Remembrance Sunday
  19. The Tragical Death Of An Apple Pie
  20. At Chiswick House
  21. The Launch For ‘On Christmas Day’
  22. At The Eagle
  23. Save Liverpool St Station
  24. Liverpool St Station In The 20th Century & Beyond
  25. In Old Liverpool St Station
  26. Publication Of ‘On Christmas Day’
  27. Tony Bock On The Railway
  28. 200 Years In Rhondda Grove
  29. Marie Lenclos’ Walk In Stoke Newington

October 2023

  1. Upon The Nature Of Gothic Horror
  2. The Dead Man In Clerkenwell
  3. Save Liverpool St Station Event
  4. Viscountess Boudica & The Headless Horseman
  5. At The German Church In Aldgate
  6. Fogs & Smogs Of Old London
  7. Modern London, 1888
  8. In Search Of Roman London
  9. The Gentle Author’s Pub Crawl
  10. Planting Diaries
  11. A London Inheritance
  12. The Oxford Sausage
  13. Bug Woman London
  14. So Long, John Dolan
  15. The Bread, Cake & Biscuit Walk
  16. On The Beat With PC Lew Tassell Again
  17. Ed Gray’s Innocence & Experience
  18. Our Crowdfund Report
  19. David Hoffman’s East End Jewish Shops
  20. Sarah Ainslie’s Wardrobe Portraits
  21. Hackney Mosaic Project At London Zoo
  22. Nicholas Borden’s New Paintings
  23. David Hoffman In Cheshire St
  24. Marion Elliot’s Tea Towels
  25. Our Three Authors Introduce Themselves
  26. The Hounds Of Hackney Downs
  27. Parkash Kaur, Shopkeeper
  28. David Hoffman At St Hildas
  29. The Hoxton Varieties Mosaic
  30. Gillian Tindall At St Brides

September 2023

  1. Eleanor Crow’s Everyday
  2. The Midway Point
  3. David Hoffman’s East End
  4. The Mosaic Makers Of Hackney Downs
  5. Henry Silk, Artist
  6. Walter Crane’s Windows In Clapton
  7. The Brady Girls
  8. My East End Vernacular Lecture
  9. David Hoffman At St Botolph’s Aldgate
  10. The Mosaic Makers Of Hackney
  11. Women At Work In Hackney
  12. A New Season Of Spitalfields Talks
  13. David Hoffman At Fieldgate Mansions
  14. Tessa Hunkin’s Haggerston Mosaic
  15. East End Women At Work
  16. The Relaunch Of Spitalfields Life Books
  17. Henry Mayhew’s Street Traders
  18. Samuel Pepys’ Cries Of London
  19. My Cries Of London Scraps
  20. The Motor Mechanics Of Bow
  21. George Wells, Able Seaman
  22. In City Churchyard Gardens
  23. The Secrets Of St Anne’s Limehouse
  24. My Cries Of London Lecture At St Bartholomew’s
  25. The Tree Huts Of Epping Forest
  26. At Highgate Cemetery
  27. J W Stutter Ltd, Cutlers
  28. Derrick Porter, Hoxton Poet
  29. At 195 Mare St
  30. At 37 Spital Square

August 2023

  1. The Vocabulary Of Beer
  2. Nature In London
  3. At James Ince & Sons, Umbrella Makers
  4. On Night Patrol With Constable Tassell
  5. A Walk Along The Ridgeway
  6. William Morris In The East End
  7. Pollock’s Toy Theatres In Spitalfields
  8. Fourteenth Annual Report
  9. Summer At Bow Cemetery
  10. At Canvey Island
  11. At Walton On The Naze
  12. My Pub Crawl From Smithfield To Holborn
  13. David Truzzi-Franconi’s East End
  14. Inside The Model Of St Paul’s
  15. Roland Collins, Artist
  16. Tex Ajetunmobi, Photographer
  17. At Waltham Abbey
  18. Hopping Portraits
  19. Roy Wild, Hop Picker
  20. Hopping Season
  21. The Stranger’s Guide To London
  22. George Cruikshank’s London Summer
  23. Bishopsgate Tavern Tokens
  24. At S. Festenstein & Sons, Furriers
  25. Jimmy’s London
  26. London Salt-Glazed Stoneware
  27. At The Pet Cemetery
  28. A Charterhouse Sq Childhood
  29. Jack Sheppard, Highwayman
  30. Dan Cruikshank’s Spitalfields Photographs
  31. The Language Of Printing

July 2023

  1. At Dirty Dick’s
  2. At St Botolph’s Church Hall
  3. At The Bishopsgate Bathhouse
  4. The East End In The Afternoon
  5. Jack London’s Photography
  6. Letters From The SPAB Archive
  7. Sandle Brothers, Manufacturing Stationers
  8. Swan Upping Season
  9. Charles Skilton’s London Life
  10. The Last Days Of Smithfield Market
  11. Learn How To Write A Blog This November
  12. John Leighton’s Cries Of London
  13. Ted Vanner, Model Steamboat Pioneer
  14. Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Churches
  15. John Dempsey’s Portraits
  16. Alan Stapleton’s Alleys, Byways & Courts
  17. Dragan Novaković’s Club Row
  18. In Old Haggerston
  19. A Gift From Libby Hall
  20. Libby Hall’s Outtakes
  21. Libby Hall’s London Dogs
  22. So Long, Libby Hall
  23. Charles Jones, Photographer
  24. Stephen Gill’s Trolley Women
  25. East End Beano Season
  26. Bishopsgate Bicycles, 1896
  27. Malcolm Johnson At St Botolph’s
  28. Old Whitechapel Letterheads & Receipts
  29. A Few Pints With John Claridge
  30. Billy & Charley’s Leaden Men
  31. George Gladwell’s Columbia Rd Market

June 2023

  1. Conditions Of Living
  2. At Dr Johnson’s House
  3. At The Georgian Group
  4. C A Mathew, Photographer
  5. Tim Marten, Guitar Repairs
  6. So Long, Beattie Orwell
  7. Lucy Hart, Gardener
  8. Townhouse Open 2023 (Part One)
  9. In The Lavender Fields Of Surrey
  10. Leo Epstein, Epra Fabrics
  11. Among The Druids On Primrose Hill
  12. Peta’s Bridle’s Watery London
  13. In Old Rotherhithe
  14. On Father’s Day
  15. James Boswell’s East End
  16. Adverts From The Jewish East End
  17. The Night I Kissed Joan Littlewood
  18. At R. Russell, Brushmakers
  19. The Return Of Vicky Moses
  20. Pedro da Costa Felgueiras, Lacquer & Paint Specialist (Japanner)
  21. Pamela Cilia, Bottling Girl
  22. The Return Of David Prescott
  23. William Kent’s Arch In Bow
  24. Hackney Mosaic Project In Regent’s Park
  25. Save JC Motors Of Haggerston
  26. Israel Bidermanas’ London
  27. Bewick’s Birds Of Spitalfields
  28. At Emery Walker’s House
  29. Music Hall Artistes Of Abney Park
  30. Mike Henbrey, Collector

May 2023

  1. The Spitalfields Roman Woman
  2. Dan Jones’ East End Portraits
  3. Antony Cairns’ Small Shops
  4. The First Hundred Penguin Books
  5. The Trade Cards Of Old London
  6. Homer Sykes’ Spitalfields
  7. At Taylor’s Buttons & Belts
  8. Masterplan For The Truman Brewery
  9. Sebastian Harding At Paul Pindar’s House
  10. Anthony Eyton, Centenarian Artist
  11. At The Bulmer Brick & Tile Company
  12. The Secret Gardens Of Spitalfields
  13. Eva Frankfurther’s Drawings
  14. The Fate Of The White Hart
  15. Stephen Hicks, The Boxer Poet
  16. Samuel Pepys In Spitalfields
  17. Thomson’s Street Life In London
  18. The Manifold Charms of Delftware
  19. How Paddy Handscombe Met Dennis Severs
  20. The Seasons Of The Year
  21. Griff Rhys Jones On Liverpool St Station
  22. Eleanor Crow’s East End Bakers
  23. Fran May’s Brick Lane
  24. In Old Spitalfields
  25. The Signs Of Old London
  26. Making History At Dennis Severs’ House
  27. At Westminster Abbey
  28. Stan Jones & The Coronation
  29. Brian Barrett, Foundry Foreman
  30. Join The Bottletop Royalty!
  31. William Oglethorpe, Cheese Maker

April 2023

  1. In The Empty City Of London
  2. A Brief Horticultural History Of The East End
  3. The Tale Of James Hadfield’s Pistol
  4. Among The Pagans At Beltane
  5. East End Beer Bottle Labels
  6. Simon Pettet’s Tiles At Dennis Severs’ House
  7. Charles Hindley’s Cries Of London
  8. Sarah Ainslie’s Somali Portraits
  9. Simon Pettet At Dennis Severs’ House
  10. The Old City Of London
  11. In Search Of Joseph Merceron
  12. The Spitalfields Bowl
  13. The Broderers Of St Paul’s
  14. Ernest George’s London Etchings
  15. The Bluebells Of Bow
  16. Thierry Girard’s East End
  17. The Return Of Joseph Merceron
  18. Sarah Ainslie’s Hatton Garden Portraits
  19. George Dickinson, Sales Manager
  20. Tony Bock At Watney Market
  21. The Auriculas Of Spitalfields
  22. The Highdays & Holidays Of Old London
  23. Viscountess Boudica’s Easter
  24. Robson Cezar’s New Whitechapel Market Houses
  25. The Way Of The Cross In Stepney
  26. Hot Cross Buns At St Bartholomew The Great
  27. East End Blossom Time
  28. Moyra Peralta’s Worldly Goods
  29. Roy Reed At Billingsgate Market
  30. Suresh Singh’s Tank Top

March 2023

  1. A Pilgrimage Along The Black Path
  2. St Mary Stratford Atte Bow Church
  3. Eleanor Crow’s East End Fish Shops
  4. Ancient Trees In Richmond Park
  5. Jeffrey Johnson’s Favourite Pubs
  6. The Language Of Tailors
  7. The Gentle Author’s Tour Of The City Of London
  8. Spitalfields In Kodachrome
  9. Some People From Spitalfields History
  10. A Door In Cornhill
  11. Lament For The Bell Foundry
  12. Phil Mills, Steeplekeeper
  13. Alan Shipp, Hyacinth Grower
  14. Ron McCormick’s Whitechapel
  15. People You May Meet On My Tour
  16. Wonderful London’s East End
  17. Susannah Dalbiac’s Almanack
  18. New Consultation For The Chest Hospital
  19. At Margolis Silver
  20. Sheila Bell Remembers Great Eastern Buildings
  21. Booker T. Washington In Petticoat Lane
  22. The Streets Of Old London
  23. In William Blake’s Lambeth
  24. Eleanor Crow’s East End Cafes
  25. Dorothy Bishop, Artist & Teacher
  26. The Cabbies Shelters Of Old London
  27. Gillian Tindall In Stepney, 1963
  28. Alf Morris, Survivor
  29. Yet Another Favourite Blog
  30. My First Year As A Tour Guide
  31. In Old Holborn
  32. Jock McFadyen, Artist

February 2023

  1. David Power, Showman
  2. Pubs Of Wonderful London
  3. In Search Of Flower & Dean St
  4. The Costume & Mantle Worker
  5. James Mackinnon, Artist
  6. At Paul Rothe & Son, Delicatessen
  7. David Hoffman’s East End
  8. Harry Harrison’s East Enders
  9. So Long, Harry The Pencil
  10. Restoring The Leonard Montefiore Fountain
  11. The Trade Of The Gardener
  12. The Match Girls At The Hanbury Hall
  13. In Old Bermondsey
  14. Roy Wild, Van Boy
  15. Viscountess Boudica On Valentine’s Day
  16. David Hoffman At St Botolph’s In Colour
  17. John Thomas Smith’s Antient Topography
  18. Spring Bulbs At Bow Cemetery
  19. Another Favourite Blog
  20. A Favourite Blog
  21. At Wellington Buildings in Bow
  22. David Hoffman At St Botolph’s
  23. The Dandy’s Perambulations
  24. Dilruba Khanam, Photographer
  25. East End Toy Manufacturers of 1917
  26. An Astonishing Photographic Discovery
  27. Towering Folly At Liverpool St Station
  28. John Olney Of Donovan Brothers

January 2023

  1. On The Beat With PC Lew Tassell
  2. At Ben Truman’s House
  3. Joyce Ellis At Minto Place
  4. Henry Croft, Road Sweeper
  5. David Hoffman At Fieldgate Mansions
  6. At The Oldest Ceremony In The World
  7. London Characters
  8. The Comic Alphabet
  9. A Lost Corner Of Whitechapel
  10. Horace Warner, Photographer
  11. My Last Spitalfields Nippers Lecture
  12. Cecile Moss Of Old Montague St
  13. More Spires Of City Churches
  14. Signs Of New Life
  15. The Juvenile Almanack
  16. Tony Hall’s East End Panoramas
  17. The Gentle Author’s Indoor Garden
  18. William Whiffin, Photographer
  19. Down Among The Meths Men
  20. A Brief History Of Street Food Sellers
  21. Ron McCormick At Southend
  22. Keren McConnell’s Orange Wrappers
  23. Charles Dickens’ Inkwell
  24. John Gillman’s Bus Tickets
  25. East End Entertainers of 1922
  26. Happy Families
  27. At The Blessing Of The River
  28. Charles Keeping, Illustrator
  29. Mat Hughes’ East Enders of 1984
  30. The Gates Of Old London
  31. Learn To Write A Blog This Spring

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