You do not soak up the atmosphere at St Bartholomew the Great. Rather, it threatens to soak you up. The gloom is so pervasive it seems it might just blot you out altogether. It is palpably exciting, a ...

Just a couple of weeks later, we encountered Jagmohan again. This time he was planting trees in Mile End Park on behalf of Tower Hamlets Rotary Club of which he is a keen member. So I asked Jagmohan ...

Even Mile End Place, where I lived in my grandfather’s house, was designated for demolition in 1968 to become a car park for Queen Mary College. Fortunately, the council did not have enough money to ...

It has been an exceptionally good year for fruit and there are some lovely ripe Bramleys on sale now. Thus the time for apple pie has arrived again so I take this opportunity to present The Tragical ...

Please drop an email to [email protected] to attend the launch Click to enlarge Sometimes in London, I think I hear a lone dog barking in the distance and I wonder if it is an echo from ...

One of these streets’ most-esteemed long-term residents summoned me to view an artefact that few have seen, the fabled Spitalfields Bowl. Engraved by Nicholas Anderson, a pupil of Laurence Whistler, ...

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 ...

Please drop an email to [email protected] to attend the launch It is my pleasure to publish these pictures from Photographer Philip Cunningham‘s astonishing archive of images from the ...