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 ...

In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London ...

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 ...

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 ...

I often think of the lives of the Spitalfields Nippers. Around 1900 Photographer and Sunday School Teacher Horace Warner took portraits of children in Quaker St, who were some of the poorest in London ...

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 ...

Book now for my tours of Spitalfields in August, September & October. Glenys with her dad Stanley Arnabaldi in their cafe at 100 Commercial St. When I met Glenys Bristow (1922-201 ...

19 11.28.13 Joseph Markovitch, I’ve Lived In East London For Eighty-Six & A Half Years ...

In Brick Lane these days, almost everyone carries a camera to capture the street life, whether traders, buskers, street art or hipsters parading fancy outfits. At every corner in Spitalfields, people ...

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 scrutinize the collection of pictures taken by the Society ...

Garden scene with photographer’s cloth backdrop c.1900 These beautiful photographs are all that exist to speak of the life of Charles Jones. Very little is known of the events and tenor of his ...