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.
Planting Diaries - Spitalfields Life
2 days ago · This plate showing a bright crimson ‘Picta Perfecta’ dahlia, with its beautifully shaped petals edged in black, was first published in The Floricultural Cabinet and Florist’s Magazine in 1835. Launched in 1833 by Joseph Harrison, a gardener and florist, his magazine reflects the appetite amongst amateur and professional gardeners alike for the cultivation of dahlias for show.
So Long, Old Town | Spitalfields Life
5 days ago · Francis in the role of Newsvendor. Favourite clothing company, OLD TOWN, run by Marie Willey and Will Brown is closing after twenty-two years of supplying clothes by mail order from their shop in Holt, Norfolk. As a tribute, I publish my account of my pilgrimage to Holt in spring 201o to collect a pair of tweed trousers, but perhaps the real tribute is that I am still wearing them all these ...
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.
On Christmas Day | Spitalfields Life
Dec 25, 2024 · It has become a tradition to publish this story at Christmas each year. Over successive Christmases, as I was growing up in Devon, I witnessed the disintegration of my family until today I am the lone survivor of the entire clan, the custodian, charged with carrying the legacy of all their stories ...
Down A Well In Spitalfields | Spitalfields Life
Sep 27, 2024 · CLICK HERE TO BOOK. Thirty years ago, eighteen wooden plates and bowls were recovered from a silted-up well in Spitalfields. One of the largest discoveries of medieval wooden vessels ever made in this country, they are believed to be dishes belonging to the inmates of the long-gone Hospital of St Mary Spital, which gave its name to this place.
Visit The Secret Gardens Of Spitalfields
Jun 2, 2024 · Gardens in Spitalfields are open for visitors this year on Saturday 8th June from 10am – 4pm. Find details at the website of the National Gardens Scheme.. I have just four tickets remaining for The Gentle Author’s Tour of Spitalfields at 2pm that day, so if you are clever you can fit both in on the same day.. These hidden enclaves of …
The Interregnum In Spitalfields
Feb 2, 2024 · Today Philip Marriage introduces this series of photographs published for the first time here. “These photographs were taken almost thirty years ago, 1994-5, during what I think of as ‘The Interregnum’ – the period after the old Spitalfields Market had moved to Leyton but before the wholesale redevelopment of Brushfield St and its inexorable gentrification.
The Roundels Of Spitalfields | Spitalfields Life
Sep 4, 2024 · These roundels remind me of the hand made tokens that were created by New York artist Beriah Wall. During the late 70s/early 80s we lived downtown in Tribeca and although it has become a very trendy/rarefied place, back then it was very off-the-cuff and full of surprising
In Search Of Roman London | Spitalfields Life
Oct 24, 2023 · Shortly after taking gentle author’s mind-expanding tour of Spitalfields last April, I walked past the Roman wall and postern gate at Tower Hill, not knowing what it was, and being distracted by tumult of the London Marathon, which blocked several streets.