Growing up in the large flat above the Spitalfields Fruit & Vegetable Market at 103 Commercial St, with school and the family business nearby, David Prescott had the run of the neighbourhood and he ...

Patrick Handscombe, born 16th March 1950, died aged 75 on 30th July 2025 Paddy Handscombe (1950-2025) I met Paddy when he returned to Dennis Severs’ House to have his portrait taken by Lucinda Douglas ...

Book now for tours of Spitalfields in August, September and October Charles Pertwee of Baddeley Brothers, the longest established engravers in the City of London & the East End, lent me his copy of ...

“I had always written, as a child,” admitted Sally Flood with a shrug, “but it wasn’t stuff you showed.” For years, when her thoughts wandered whilst working in the factory in Princelet St, Sally ...

Pool Square, three storeyed houses, rough women about, Irish. One house with a wooden top storey, windows broken. This is the last of an Irish colony, the Jews begin to predominate when Grey Eagle St ...

There is a familiar style of presentation in which the broken fragments of wall are neatly cemented in place while the former internal spaces are replaced by manicured lawns. This is the case at ...