In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house ...
WEBSep 9, 2024 · For good reason John Thomas Smith acquired the nickname ‘Antiquity Smith’ – while working as Keeper of Drawings at the British Museum, between 1790 & 1800, he produced a large series of etchings recording all the antiquities of London, from which I publish this selection of favourites today. Old houses in the Butcher Row near Clement’s Inn, taken down 30th March 1798 – the right hand ...
Marie Lenclos’ Still Light | Spitalfields Life
WEB10 hours ago · September 23, 2024. by the gentle author. Artist Marie Lenclos introduces her new exhibition of paintings Still Light which opens at Townhouse this Saturday 28th September and runs until Sunday 13th October. Blue Door, Fournier St. ‘When I first came to London in the nineties as an Erasmus student, Spitafields immediately became a …
Fifteenth Annual Report | Spitalfields Life
WEBAug 23, 2024 · As I write this fifteenth annual report, I have two things in mind. Firstly, this past year has been especially busy as we prepare to relaunch Spitalfields Life Books in October with David Hoffman’s two-hundred-and-forty page hardback photographic monograph, ENDURANCE & JOY IN THE EAST END 1971-1987. When David was a young photographer, he ...
The Gentle Author’s Tour Of Spitalfields
WEBSep 4, 2021 · Two extra tours announced on Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd October at noon. Tickets cost £50 and include a signed copy of one of The Gentle Author’s books as a souvenir. Email [email protected] to reserve a place. Please give your first and second choice of date and specify which book of mine you …
At The Custom House Public Inquiry | Spitalfields Life
WEBFebruary 13, 2022. by Charles Saumarez Smith. The Public Inquiry into the future of the Custom House has been running for two weeks now and today I publish this statement by Stepney resident and former-Director of the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery and the Royal Academy, Charles Saumarez Smith, which he delivered at the end of ...
Literary Life - Spitalfields
WEBJun 19, 2024 · 2 7.10.24 In Itchy Park With Jack London. 11 6.19.24 A Walk With Suresh Singh. 2 5.30.24 The War On Vice In The East End. 1 5.15.24 Christopher Marlowe In Norton Folgate. 6 5.13.24 At John Keats’ House. 7 5.11.24 William Morris In The East End. 4 3.16.24 Smithfield Slang. 9 3.5.24 So Long, Bernard Kops.
Lost Spitalfields | Spitalfields Life
WEBSep 24, 2021 · So look back at these elegiac photos of what was lost in Spitalfields before your time, reconcile yourself to the loss of the past and brace yourself for the future that is arriving. Spital Sq, only St Botolph’s Hall on the right survives today. Spital Sq photographed in 1909. Church Passage, Spital Sq, 1733, photographed in …
Purim In Stamford Hill - Spitalfields Life
WEB2 days ago · Purim In Stamford Hill. September 21, 2024. by the gentle author. Photographer Neil Martinson introduces his pictures of the Purim festival celebrated by an orthodox Jewish community in Hackney. ‘It’s the most surprising festival in London, in which the largest orthodox Jewish community in Europe discard their …
From Old Bedlam To Liverpool St | Spitalfields Life
WEBMay 26, 2022 · Bookings for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOURS are now open for June & July. Liverpool St Station. Novelist & Historian Gillian Tindall, author of A Tunnel Through Time, A New Route for an Old London Journey, introduces the Elizabeth line.. The central section of the Elizabeth line carries passengers from Paddington Station in the west to Liverpool St in the east with only three stations in between.
So Long, Huguenots Of Spitalfields | Spitalfields Life
WEBNov 13, 2021 · The Hanbury Hall in Hanbury St was built in 1719 as a Huguenot Church, standing back from the road behind a courtyard with a pump. The building was extended in 1864 and is now the church hall for Christ Church, Spitalfields. Coat of arms in the Hanbury Hall dating from 1740, when “La Patente” Church moved into the building, signifying the ...