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3 days ago · Four Swans, Bishopsgate, photographed by William Strudwick & demolished 1873. In 1906, F G Hilton Price, Vice President of the London Topographical Society opened his speech to the members at the annual meeting with these words – ‘We are all familiar with the hackneyed expression ‘Vanishing London’ but it is nevertheless an appropriate one for …
The Dead Man In Clerkenwell | Spitalfields Life
7 hours ago · October 18, 2024. by the gentle author. Click here to book for this Sunday’s tour. . . This is the face of the dead man in Clerkenwell. He does not look perturbed by the change in the weather. Once winters wore him out, but now he rests beneath the streets of the modern city he will never see, oblivious both to the weather and the wonders of ...
On Publication Day For Endurance & Joy In The East End
1 day ago · Here are the first three dates to be announced. . Thursday 7th November 7:30pm at Wanstead Tap, 352 Winchelsea Rd, E7 0AQ. CLICK HERE TO BOOK. Sunday 24th November at Write Idea Festival, Tower Hamlets Town Hall, Whitechapel Rd, E1 1BJ. BOOKING OPEN SOON. Sunday 8th December at Bloomsbury Jamboree, Art …
Lost Spitalfields | Spitalfields Life
Sep 24, 2021 · So look back at these elegiac photos of what was lost in Spitalfields before your time, reconcile yourself to the loss of the past and brace yourself for the future that is arriving. Spital Sq, only St Botolph’s Hall on the right survives today. Spital Sq photographed in 1909. Church Passage, Spital Sq, 1733, photographed in 1909 – only the ...
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.
At The Charterhouse | Spitalfields Life
May 21, 2024 · Brick buildings of 1531 in Preacher’s Court with the Barbican beyond. Desirous of an excuse to view the magnificence of the Charterhouse, I made a call upon my friend Brother Hilary Haydon one sunny afternoon, using the excuse of undertaking a photoessay, and these pictures – interspersed with lantern slides from the Bishopsgate Institute of the same subject a century ago – are the result.
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 ...
The Interregnum In Spitalfields
Feb 2, 2024 · Today Philip Marriage introduces this series of photographs published for the first time here. “These photographs were taken almost thirty years ago, 1994-5, during what I think of as ‘The Interregnum’ – the period after the old Spitalfields Market had moved to Leyton but before the wholesale redevelopment of Brushfield St and its inexorable gentrification.
At John Keats’ House | Spitalfields Life
May 13, 2024 · John Keats in 1819 when he lived at Wentworth Place. Wentworth Place, completed 1816 as one of the first houses to be built in Lower Hampstead Heath. John Keats lived here. In John Keats’ study. The right hand room on the ground floor was John Keats’ study and the room above was his bedroom. Keats’ room where he learnt he had tuberculosis ...
Vanishing London | Spitalfields Life
3 days ago · Vanishing London. October 15, 2024. by the gentle author. Click here to book for this Sunday’s tour. . . Four Swans, Bishopsgate, photographed by William Strudwick & demolished 1873. In 1906, F G Hilton Price, Vice President of the London Topographical Society opened his speech to the members at the annual meeting with these words – ‘We ...