Growing up in the large flat above the Spitalfields Fruit & Vegetable Market at 103 Commercial St, with school and the family business nearby, David Prescott had the run of the neighbourhood and he ...

I met Paddy when he returned to Dennis Severs’ House to have his portrait taken by Lucinda Douglas Menzies in 2022. In her portrait above you see him seated in the Dickens’ attic at the house.

Book now for tours of Spitalfields in August, September and October Charles Pertwee of Baddeley Brothers, the longest established engravers in the City of London & the East End, lent me his copy of ...

Sally with her first child Danny in the early nineteen fifties. Sally’s children, Maureen, Jimmy, Pat and Theresa in the yard in Whitechapel in 1962. Sally’s husband, Joseph Flood. Sally in ...

CLICK HERE TO BOOK FOR FOR AUGUST, SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER In the East London volume of Charles Booth’s notebooks of research for his Survey into Life & Labour of the People of London (1886-1903), I came ...

Only recently did I learn that there is an abbey and a wood at Abbey Wood. Stunned by my own obtuseness, I set out to discover what I have been missing all these years. Visiting ruins was a memorable ...

CLICK HERE TO BOOK FOR MY TOURS & BUY GIFT VOUCHERS Libby Hall remembered the first time she visited a pub with Tony Hall in the nineteen sixties – because it signalled the beginning of their ...

Courtesy of Jemmy Catnach of Catnach Press, it is my pleasure to publish this early nineteenth century shaggy dog tale of the devoted Mother Hubbard – believed to be by Sarah Catherine Martin ...