5 days ago · Artist Reginald Mills, who painted Blitz Scene, East End, 7th September 1940 recorded this incident in The Fireman describing the white heat of the huge fire in the distance …

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 …

May 10, 2025 · Mary Pitcairn’s romantically title Driving by Moonlight depicts the extraordinary bravery of AFS Firewoman Gillian ‘Bobbie’ Tanner driving a truck from Dockhead in …

Mar 28, 2025 · An Auricula Theatre. In horticultural lore, auriculas have always been associated with Spitalfields and writer Patricia Cleveland-Peck has a mission to bring them back again.

2 days ago · If you spotted someone hauling an old wooden Spitalfields Market orange crate around the East End, that was me undertaking a pilgrimage to some of the places William …

Nov 3, 2016 · There are more than 5,000 stories by The Gentle Author with 44,000 pictures to be found in the categories and archives on this site

Jan 29, 2025 · First Snowdrops in Wapping. Even now, in the depths of Winter, there is plant life stirring. As I travelled around the East End over the past week in the wet and cold, I kept my …

Jan 6, 2025 · I thought long and hard about what to do with my parents’ ashes. My dad died four years ago and my mum last year. In 2015, my parents moved into a little bungalow opposite …

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 …

May 21, 2024 · Brick buildings of 1531 in Preacher’s Court with the Barbican beyond. Desirous of an excuse to view the magnificence of the Charterhouse, I made a call upon my friend Brother …