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There is a such a pleasing geometry to the architecture of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Christ Church, Spitalfields, completed in 1729, that when you glance upon the satisfying order of the facade you might ...
Book now for my tours of Spitalfields in August, September & October. Glenys with her dad Stanley Arnabaldi in their cafe at 100 Commercial St. When I met Glenys Bristow (1922-201 ...
Sebastian Harding ‘s model of the Truman Brewery was the centrepiece of the Save Brick Lane exhibition, but he has been making architectural models for years – especially of buildings that are lost – ...
Before I joined the London Library, I had been defeated by the catalogues of the great libraries, with their obscure numerical systems and form-filling requirements just so that you might return to ...
At least once each Summer, I direct my steps eastwards from Spitalfields along the Mile End Rd towards Bow Cemetery, one of the “Magnificent Seven” created by act of Parliament in 1832 as the growing ...
Contributing Photographer Sarah Ainslie & I first met Parkash Kaur when we were making portraits of the residents of the Holland Estate next to Petticoat Lane in Spitalfields. It was evident then that ...
David standing outside 103 Commercial St in the mid-sixties Growing up in the large flat above the Spitalfields Fruit & Vegetable Market at 103 Commercial St, with school and the family business ...
19 11.28.13 Joseph Markovitch, I’ve Lived In East London For Eighty-Six & A Half Years ...