Vera Galley – “I was first taken hop picking as a baby. My mum, my nan and my brothers and sisters, we all went hop picking together. I never liked the smell of hops when I was working in the hop ...

There is Roy on the far right with his left hand stuck in his pocket, to indicate the appropriate air of nonchalance befitting a street-wise man of the world of around twelve years old, on a hopping ...

Book now for my tours through August, September & October This boy is wearing Horace Warner’s hat I often think of the lives of the Spitalfields Nippers. Around 1900 Photographer and Sunday School ...

Book now for my tours through August, September & October Dinner at the Mercers’ Hall, c.1910 Is that your stomach rumbling or is it the sound of distant thunder I hear? To assuage your hunger, let us ...

There is a such a pleasing geometry to the architecture of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Christ Church, Spitalfields, completed in 1729, that when you glance upon the satisfying order of the facade you might ...

Glenys with her dad Stanley Arnabaldi in their cafe at 100 Commercial St When I met Glenys Bristow (1922-2017), she did not live in Spitalfields anymore but in a well-kept flat in a quiet corner of ...

Sebastian Harding ‘s model of the Truman Brewery was the centrepiece of the Save Brick Lane exhibition, but he has been making architectural models for years – especially of buildings that are lost – ...

Contributing Photographer Sarah Ainslie & I first met Parkash Kaur when we were making portraits of the residents of the Holland Estate next to Petticoat Lane in Spitalfields. It was evident then that ...

At least once each Summer, I direct my steps eastwards from Spitalfields along the Mile End Rd towards Bow Cemetery, one of the “Magnificent Seven” created by act of Parliament in 1832 as the growing ...