Commemorating the ninetieth anniversary of the Battle of Cable St. Portrait of Beattie Orwell by Phil Maxwell.

In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London ...

Often when I set out for a walk from Spitalfields, my footsteps lead me to the crossroads outside the Bank of England , at ...

The great majority of my stories were written beneath this quilt that I made a few years ago and which has special meaning ...

Arful Nessa in her garden in Puma Court. My mother is the first to admit tha ...

With this in mind, John Thomas Smith’s twenty etchings of extravagantly rustic cottages published as Remarks On Rural Scenery ...

Yesterday, I cycled over Tower Bridge to join the happy throng at Surrey Docks Farm in Rotherhithe where Tessa Hunkin’s ...

‘Please help the Hackney Mosaic Project retain a work space in Hackney Downs. We have been there for over twelve years and ...

Nothing prepared me for the seemingly infinite variety of fruit that exists in nature. Walking into an orchard of two-thousand-two-hundred varieties of apple, all in fruit, is a vertiginous prospect ...

By coincidence, two readers – Christine Osborne & Janice Oliver – both sent me photographs of their ancestors who produced and sold soft drinks in the East End – Brandon’s Mineral Waters of Virginia ...

It was my delight to accompany photographer Phil Maxwell to visit one hundred and five year old Beattie Orwell (1917-2023) and sit beside her in her cosy flat while she talked to me of her century of ...

You will not meet many who can boast the distinction of being brought up on the teeming thoroughfare of Bishopsgate but ...