The Gates Of The City - Spitalfields Life
11 minutes ago · On this first day of the year let us contemplate those places of going out and coming in, specifically the old gates of the City of London. Discovering the sixteenth century figures of Old King Lud and his sons that once stood upon Ludgate yet are now forgotten in an alley of Fleet St, made me think more closely of the gates that once surrounded the City.
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.
The Ghosts Of Old London - Spitalfields Life
6 days ago · Click to enlarge this photograph. To dispel my disappointment that I cannot rent that Room to Let in Old Aldgate, I find myself returning to scrutinise the collection of pictures taken by the Society for Photographing the Relics of Old London held in the archive at the Bishopsgate Institute.It gives me great pleasure to look closely and see the loaves of …
So Long, Old Town | Spitalfields Life
3 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 ...
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 ...
At Smithfield On Christmas Eve | Spitalfields Life
Dec 23, 2024 · Carnivorous readers will be delighting to learn that – despite the announcement of closure – the traditional Smithfield Christmas Eve meat auction runs this year hosted by G Lawrence & Co on Grand Avenue in the Central Market from 10am. Blow you can read my account of a visit there with the late ...
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.
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.
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.
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.