The Gentle Author’s Tour Of Spitalfields
Sep 4, 2021 · Two extra tours announced on Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd October at noon. Tickets cost £50 and include a signed copy of one of The Gentle Author’s books as a souvenir. Email [email protected] to reserve a place. Please give your first and second choice of date and specify which book of mine you would like. Numbers are strictly limited.
Henry Silk’s Still Life - Spitalfields Life
1 day ago · November 13, 2024. by the gentle author. In 1930, basketmaker and artist Henry Silk sits alone in his sparsely furnished room in Rounton Rd in Bow surrounded by few personal possessions. He glances in the mirror and realises that he is no longer young. Yet the pair of medals from the Great War laid on the table remind him how lucky he is to be ...
At 37 Spital Square - Spitalfields Life
Sep 2, 2023 · This magnificent tottering pile is the last surviving Georgian mansion of the entire square once lined with such dwellings, which traced the outline of the former Priory of St Mary Spital that was established in 1187. Indeed, pieces of Medieval stonework from the old Priory buildings are still visible, tucked into the foundations of 37 Spital Sq.
Human Life - Spitalfields
Nov 3, 2016 · 4 4.13.23 George Dickinson, Sales Manager. 5 3.31.23 St Mary Stratford Atte Bow Church. 2 3.24.23 Some People From Spitalfields History. 3 3.21.23 Phil Mills, Steeplekeeper. 5 3.14.23 At Margolis Silver. 11 3.13.23 Sheila Bell Remembers Great Eastern Buildings.
First Signs Of Life - Spitalfields
Jan 25, 2024 · 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 eyes open for new life and was rewarded for my quest by the precious discoveries that you see here.
People You May Meet On My Tour | Spitalfields Life
Mar 18, 2023 · The tour (took it with three friends in early January) is absolutely fabulous – really opened my eyes to all sorts of different ideas and sights that I have been thinking and reading about since: urban planning (and how much of what we see as modern has roots back to the 16th century); Culpepper’s Herbal (had/still have an early copy that I appreciate anew); progress; community and courage ...
My Promise | Spitalfields Life
Oct 25, 2009 · This is both my task and my delight. Let me disclose to you the hare-brained ambition I am pursuing, which is to write at least ten thousand stories about Spitalfields life. At the rate of one a day, this will take approximately twenty-seven years and four months. Who knows what kind of life we shall be living in 2037 when I write my ten ...
Criminal Life - Spitalfields
Apr 29, 2023 · 3 12.16.21 Chapter 3. The Burial Of The Victims. 4 12.10.21 Chapter 2. Horrid Murder. 8 12.7.21 Chapter 1. The Death Of A Linen Draper. 13 10.8.21 A Brief Introduction To Criminality. 25 6.11.21 The Executions Of Old London. 11 3.26.21 Charles Booth In Spitalfields.
Down A Well In Spitalfields
September 27, 2024. by the gentle author. 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 ...
Scenes From Dennis Severs’ House | Spitalfields Life
Dec 21, 2021 · Scenes From Dennis Severs’ House. December 21, 2021. by the gentle author. . Over the past year, it has been my delight to work for the Spitalfields Trust at Dennis Severs’ House, devising the new Dennis Severs’ Tour and rehearsing the actors, Joel Saxon and Lisa D’Agostino who are hosts. Here I present a few vignettes of the life of ...