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2 days ago · A few years ago, I came across this set of small souvenir Christmas plates Fritz Wegner designed for Fleetwood of Wyoming between 1980 and 1983 in limited editions, which I acquired for almost nothing. They are crudely produced, not unlike those ceramics sold in copy shops with photographic transfers, yet this cheap mass-produced quality endears them to me and I set them out on the dresser ...
On Christmas Day | Spitalfields Life
5 hours ago · 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 ...
Christmas With Dennis Severs | Spitalfields Life
6 days ago · What wonderfully evocative prose and beautiful pictures. Both really bring Dennis Severs and his house brilliantly to life. When I lived above the market in Commercial Street we briefly had a tenants group which Dennis was a member of and I remember going to a Christmas meeting that started with a tour of the house followed by mince pies and (I think) mulled wine in his basement kitchen.
The Robin’s Christmas Eve | Spitalfields Life
1 day ago · The stove had not burnt very low, But still was warm and bright, And round the spot whereon it stood, Threw forth a cheerful light. Now Robin from a corner hopped,
Christmas At The Salvation Army | Spitalfields Life
5 days ago · Grim festivities from the cold, sanctimonious hand of charity. The Salvation Army have – let’s call it a complicated reputation. Rose-tinted notions about charity & that vague catch-all dehumanising category of humans deemed or rendered ‘vulnerable’ ‘needy’ unsavoury or frightening etc… cling to the British with that peculiar mixture of …
Literary Life - Spitalfields
Oct 29, 2024 · There are more than 5,000 stories by The Gentle Author with 43,000 pictures to be found in the categories and archives on this site
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.
At Postman’s Park | Spitalfields Life
Apr 20, 2024 · Taking the opportunity afforded by the Spring sunshine yesterday, I enjoyed a stroll from Spitalfields through the City of London to visit Postman’s Park, a tiny enclave of green between St Bartholomew’s Hospital, the Barbican and St Paul’s Cathedral.
Raphael Samuel’s Farewell To Spitalfields
May 25, 2024 · In 1988, the Bishopsgate Institute staged an exhibition entitled A Farewell to Spitalfields curated by John Shaw and Raphael Samuel, the distinguished historian of the East End. The purpose was to assess the history of Spitalfields in the light of the changes that were forthcoming, as a result of the closure of the Truman Brewery and the Fruit & Vegetable Market – and it is my pleasure to ...
Fourteenth Annual Report | Spitalfields Life
Aug 25, 2023 · Good Morning, I have just read your annual report and I must congratulate you on what you have achieved. I have be a subscriber for several years and have had much pleasure in reading your articles ad particularly those with old photographs.