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5 days ago · Portrait by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1895. Spokesman and leader of African American people in the USA, Booker T. Washington came to London in 1910 to study the living conditions of the poor on this side of the Atlantic by comparison with his own country.
The Pubs Of Old London - Spitalfields Life
3 days ago · Bring your children, bring your dog and enjoy a smoke with your drink, all are permitted in the pubs of old London – but no-one gets to go home until we have visited every one. The Saracen’s Head, Aldgate. The Grapes, Limehouse. George & Vulture, City of London. The Green Dragon, Highgate. The Grenadier, Old Barrack Yard.
Jeffery Johnson’s Favourite Signs | Spitalfields Life
Nov 6, 2024 · Jeffery Johnson’s Favourite Signs. November 6, 2024. by the gentle author. Enigmatic Photographer Jeffrey Johnson deposited a stack of his pictures from the seventies and eighties with Archivist Stefan Dickers at the Bishopsgate Institute, including these photos of signs and ghost signs. Sharing Jeffrey’s relish at this magnificent array, I ...
On Night Patrol With PC Lew Tassell | Spitalfields Life
5 days ago · November 8, 2024. by the gentle author. Police Constable Lew Tassell of the City of London Police. “One week in December 1972, I was on night duty. Normally, I would be on beat patrol from Bishopsgate Police Station between 11pm-7am. But that week I was on the utility van which operated between 10pm-6am, so there would be cover during the ...
In William Blake’s Lambeth | Spitalfields Life
Nov 5, 2024 · On the south side of the arches is Hercules Rd, site of the William Blake Estate today, where he lived between 1790 and 1800 at 13 Hercules Buildings, a three-storey terrace house demolished in 1917. Blake passed ten productive and formative years on the south bank, that he recalled as ‘Lambeth’s vale where Jerusalem’s foundations began.’.
Mary Burd, Clinical Psychologist | Spitalfields Life
6 days ago · Mary Burd, Clinical Psychologist. November 7, 2024. by the gentle author. ‘You cannot overestimate sitting down quietly with someone and listening to what they have to say’. . Mary Burd worked as Clinical Psychologist at the Jubilee St Practice in Stepney between 1979 and 2009, beginning as a mental health trainee and eventually becoming ...
Human Life - Spitalfields
Nov 3, 2016 · 4 4.13.23 George Dickinson, Sales Manager. 5 3.31.23 St Mary Stratford Atte Bow Church. 2 3.24.23 Some People From Spitalfields History. 3 3.21.23 Phil Mills, Steeplekeeper. 5 3.14.23 At Margolis Silver. 11 3.13.23 Sheila Bell Remembers Great Eastern Buildings.
At 37 Spital Square - Spitalfields Life
Sep 2, 2023 · This magnificent tottering pile is the last surviving Georgian mansion of the entire square once lined with such dwellings, which traced the outline of the former Priory of St Mary Spital that was established in 1187. Indeed, pieces of Medieval stonework from the old Priory buildings are still visible, tucked into the foundations of 37 Spital Sq.
The Gentle Author’s Tour Of Spitalfields
Sep 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 spitalfieldslife@gmail.com to reserve a place. Please give your first and second choice of date and specify which book of mine you would like. Numbers are strictly limited.
At Anna Maria Garthwaite’s House | Spitalfields Life
June 30, 2021. by the gentle author. Anna Maria Garthwaite, the most celebrated texile designer of the eighteenth century, bought this house in Spitalfields when she was forty years old in 1728, just five years after it was built. Its purchase reflected the success she had already achieved but, living here at the very heart of the silk industry ...