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 ...

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 ...

Perhaps everyone has a favourite piece of clothing they have worn for years? I always admired Suresh Singh’s jazzy tank top and I was astonished when he told me he has been wearing it for half a ...

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 ...

It was astonishing moment back in July when Tower Hamlets Council voted unanimously to reject the Truman Brewery’s planning application to build a corporate office plaza across the entire site. This ...

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 ...

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, ...

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