Ron’s Gents Hairdressers, Three Colts Lane, Bethnal Green, is still there but has changed from ‘Hairdresser’ to ‘Barber.’ ...
My brothers Paul, Howard and myself occupied one bedroom at 17 Milward St, Whitechapel, behind the London Hospital. We had ...
Commemorating the ninetieth anniversary of the Battle of Cable St. Portrait of Beattie Orwell by Phil Maxwell.
I wanted to learn all that I could about my cousin Colonel Edward Marcus Despard (1751-1803), an Irishman of Huguenot descent ...
“My father, Lawrence Minter, took over this brick works in 1936 when he was thirty-five. It had been here for hundreds of years, with the earliest evidence dating from 1450, and it was a typical local ...
Consequently, I was fascinated to visit the Drapers’ Hall and explore the chambers of the ancient livery company arranged ...
Often when I set out for a walk from Spitalfields, my footsteps lead me to the crossroads outside the Bank of England , at ...
The great majority of my stories were written beneath this quilt that I made a few years ago and which has special meaning ...
Commemorating the ninetieth anniversary of the Battle of Cable St today. Max Levitas (1915-2018) by Phil Maxwell. Max Levitas ...
Photographer Lucinda Douglas-Menzies has published a limited edition monograph of her portraits taken between 1978 and 2025, including some distinguished cultural luminaries alongside Spitalfields ...