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My Flowers Of 2023
Tickets are available for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS tomorrow . Each Sunday, if I can afford it and have the time, I visit Columbia Rd Market to buy a bunch of flowers, seeking what is...
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John Claridge’s East End Shops
Ross Bakeries, Quaker St, 1966 “I used to go to the shops with my mum every Saturday morning, and she’d meet people she knew and they’d be chatting for maybe an hour, so I’d go off and meet other kids...
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Joe Lawrence, Butcher & Novelist
Joe Lawrence There is a legend that Dick Turpin started out as a Butcher’s apprentice in Whitechapel before graduating to the role of Highwayman. Yet only now that I have read Joe Lawrence’s...
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Roy Gardner’s Sales Tickets
One shilling by Roy Gardner Paul Gardner, the current incumbent and fourth generation in Spitalfields oldest family business (Gardners’ Market Sundriesmen in Commercial St since 1870 and now at...
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Dog Days At Club Row
“… furry faces peering incongruously from the jackets of hawkers.” In 1953, Ronald Searle came here with his wife, Kaye Webb, to report upon the animal market in Club Row for their book, “Looking at...
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The World Of The Saree Shops
. JULIE BEGUM is giving an illustrated lecture outlining the long history of the presence of Bengali people on this side of London. IMAGES OF THE BENGALI EAST END is at 7pm on Tuesday 5th March at the...
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East End Shopfronts
Click here to book your spring walk through Spitalfields Click here to book your walk through the City of London . These splendid shopfronts from the beginning of the last century are published...
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Ron McCormick’s Spitalfields
If you are at a loose end over the forthcoming Easter holidays and looking for an excuse for a walk, why not join me for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS on Easter Thursday 28th March at 2pm...
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Marcellus Laroon’s Cries Of London
CLICK HERE TO BOOK YOUR TICKET Today it is my pleasure to publish Marcellus Laroon’s vibrant series of engravings of the Cries of London reproduced from an original edition of 1687 in the collection...
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Charles Chusseau-Flaviens’ Petticoat Lane
Click here to book for my next tour of the City of London on Sunday 21st April . Petticoat Lane Photographer Charles Chusseau-Flaviens came to London from Paris and took these pictures, reproduced...
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