Contributing Photographer Sarah Ainslie & I first met Parkash Kaur when we were making portraits of the residents of the Holland Estate next to Petticoat Lane in Spitalfields. It was evident then that ...

At least once each Summer, I direct my steps eastwards from Spitalfields along the Mile End Rd towards Bow Cemetery, one of the “Magnificent Seven” created by act of Parliament in 1832 as the growing ...

Like an old book jammed into a crowded bookcase, the London Library sits wedged in the corner of St James’ Sq. Years ago, I had the privilege of a subsidised membership for a spell, and I loved to ...

David standing outside 103 Commercial St in the mid-sixties Growing up in the large flat above the Spitalfields Fruit & Vegetable Market at 103 Commercial St, with school and the family business ...

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

I met Paddy when he returned to Dennis Severs’ House to have his portrait taken by Lucinda Douglas Menzies in 2022. In her portrait above you see him seated in the Dickens’ attic at the house.

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 ...

Sally with her first child Danny in the early nineteen fifties. Sally’s children, Maureen, Jimmy, Pat and Theresa in the yard in Whitechapel in 1962. Sally’s husband, Joseph Flood. Sally in ...