Sequestered in a locked room, away from the human eye, the Spitalfields Bowl is a spell-binding receptacle of time and memory. To the left is the Worrall House, situated in a hidden courtyard between ...

Suresh’s father Joginder Singh came to London from the Punjab in 1949 and the Singh family have lived at 38 Princelet St longer than any other family in Spitalfields. In our age of disposable fashion, ...

Today it is my pleasure to publish the story of Martin White, who has heroically continued running Crescent Trading, Spitalfields’ last cloth warehouse, after the death of his business partner Philip ...

This is George Cossington (1926-2014) in the top left of this picture, photographed in the pursuit of his trade as a steeplejack & steel erector, perched at the very top of a one hundred and fifty ...

Click here for details of Walter Donohue’s screenwriting course to be held in Spitalfields on 8th & 9th November ...

Today I preview the Pearly Kings & Queens Harvest Festival which takes place this Sunday 21st September, commencing with high jinks in the Guildhall yard in the City of London from 1:15pm followed by ...

These were once Watermen’s Stairs, where passengers might get picked up or dropped off, seeking transport across or along the Thames. Just as taxi drivers of contemporary London learn the Knowledge, ...

Yet it does not end here because the Truman Brewery has referred their application to the government’s Planning Inspectorate in the hope of getting the rejection overturned. The outcome is a twelve ...

You are invited to join us at the private launch party for Tessa Hunkin’s Hackney Mosaic Project on Saturday 27th September from 2-5pm at the mosaic workshop in the Pavilion on Hackney Downs, Downs ...

I have just learnt of the death of Spitalfields resident Jil Cove (1939 – 2025) back in July, aged eighty-six. Jil pensive. Jil humorous. Jil astute. Jil valiant. Jil triumphant ...