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2 days ago · The Royal Oak. The presence of great trees in the city has always been a source of fascination to me as one born in the countryside. I often think of the nineteenth century rural writer Richard Jefferies who, while struggling to make a career in London, took lonely walks in the parks for consolation and once, to ameliorate his home-sickness for the West Country, spontaneously wrapped his arms ...
In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house ...
Jan 11, 2025 · I am sorry to report the death of David Power on 15th December at the age of ninety. David Power 1934-2024. David Power lived in a comfortable Peabody flat round the back of the London Coliseum and, with his raffish charm, flowing snowy locks and stylish lambswool sweater, he was completely at home among the performers of theatre land.
The Closure Of Smithfield Market | Spitalfields Life
Nov 29, 2024 · Another rich piece of London history. Family friends of ours dating back to the early 1950s, owned the very lucrative Christmas Turkey business at Smithfield and I have a couple of wonderful photos of an occasion when Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (King Charles III’s grandmother) was visiting the Market and was photographed with those friends.
Lost Spitalfields | Spitalfields Life
Oct 16, 2024 · Now one of those little houses on Buxton Street would suit me just fine! Although I grew up in Chelsea and not the East End, our childhood playgrounds back in the 1950s were bombsites, although forbidden by our parents to go near them, but we were streetwise and lived in a great Community, everyone having gone through the same experiences, and there for each other if you needed help.
In Old Globetown - Spitalfields Life
Jan 17, 2025 · I took advantage of rare hours of January sunlight to take a stroll over to Globetown. You walk east from Museum Gardens in Bethnal Green through Sugar Loaf Walk and immediately recognise you have entered a different neighbourhood, where an atmosphere of domestic quietude prevails in distinct contrast to the clamour you encountered at the junction of Bethnal Green Rd and Cambridge Heath Rd ...
Fifteenth Annual Report - Spitalfields Life
Aug 23, 2024 · Secondly, there is a new planning battle looming that is set to dominate the next year in Spitalfields. I am sure you will recall the fight four years ago when the Truman Brewery applied for permission to build a hideous shopping mall with a block of corporate offices on top.
Frank Derrett’s West End | Spitalfields Life
22 hours ago · Cranbourne St. Fancy a stroll around the West End with Frank Derrett in the seventies? This invitation is possible thanks to the foresight of Paul Loften who rescued these photographs from destruction in the last century.
Lost Spitalfields | Spitalfields Life
Sep 24, 2021 · A splendid set of photographs. Give it another 100 years and what is there now will be a thing of the past too. I think the photograph marked as ’52 & 9a Artillery Passage, 1680s’ should probably read 1880s.
An Astonishing Photographic Discovery | Spitalfields Life
Dec 10, 2020 · Wonderful photos the quality of which is so good they could have been taken yesterday! Great detective work for finding them. The young lady on the left in the second photo [Wakefield Sisters] I am sure I have seen before which probably means in …
At Waltham Abbey - Spitalfields Life
Aug 16, 2023 · I cycled along the River Lea to Waltham Abbey. On my approach, even from the riverbank, I could see the majestic tower rising over the water meadows as the Abbey has done for the past thousand years, commanding the landscape and undiminished in visual authority.