Spitalfields Life
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Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of culture and history at the heart of old London. www.thegentleauthorstours.com
Christopher Wren's 1:25 model of St Paul's. Meet me outside St Paul's on 31 Aug for The Gentle Author's Tour of the City of London and let's spend the afternoon rambling through the Square Mile in search of the wonders and the wickedness. thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking
Join me for tea & cakes freshly baked to recipe of 1720 served in a 300 year old house overlooking Christ Church. Tickets available for my Spitalfields tour on Sat 15th & Sat 29th Aug. Let's take a ramble through 2000 years of history and culture. TICKETS: shorturl.at/N8E1T
First apples of the season from the market this morning, Discovery from Kent.
THE SILK RIBBON WEAVER selected from Marion Elliot's exhibition 'MAKING GOOD, Pictorial Guide To Rural Crafts' at Tinsmiths in Ledbury, opening this weekend and running until 4th September.
Huge thanks to Farokh Talati, Head Chef at St John Bread & Wine, for so generously baking this magnificent Apple Strudel for the lucky guests on The Gentle Author's Tour of Whitechapel this Sunday, commissioned by the Whitechapel Gallery Tickets: thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking
Life in the East, 1820. Discover the riotous life of 'Sailortown.' Tickets are available for THE GENTLE AUTHOR'S TOUR OF WHITECHAPEL on Sundays 23rd August, 6th and 23rd September, and 18th October. Includes tea and strudel at the Whitechapel Gallery. shorturl.at/ejuCL
Join me for tea and cakes freshly baked to recipe of 1720 served in a 300 year old house overlooking Christ Church. Tickets available for my Spitalfields tour on Saturday 15th August. Let's take a ramble through 2000 years of history and culture TICKETS: shorturl.at/N8E1T
Tickets available for my Spitalfields tour on Saturday 15th August. Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of history and culture followed by tea and cakes freshly baked to recipe of 1720 served in a 300 year old house overlooking Christ Church. TICKETS: shorturl.at/N8E1T
Was the Whitechapel Mount a prehistoric burial mound? Learn the answer to the mystery of the Mount on my WHITECHAPEL TOUR. Tickets available on Sundays, 23 Aug, 6 & 23 Sept, & 18 Oct. Tour includes tea & apple strudel at the Whitechapel Gallery. TICKETS: shorturl.at/ejuCL
Tickets available for my Spitalfields tour on Saturday 15th August. Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of history and culture followed by tea and cakes freshly baked to recipe of 1720 served in a 300 year old house overlooking Christ Church. TICKETS: shorturl.at/N8E1T
Meet me on the steps of St Paul's on 31st August and we will spend the afternoon rambling through the alleys and byways of the Square Mile in search of the wonders and the wickedness of the City of London. thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking
10 years ago today, on August 3rd 2016, Viscountess Boudicca was decanted from her council flat in Bethnal Green to Uttoxeter. Last week, she paid a rare visit to London, her first in 7 years. Read the full story on www.spitalfieldslife.com
Edith Tudor-Hart's 1935 photograph of a girl looking longingly in the cake shop window is perhaps the most famous photograph taken in Whitechapel. Join The Gentle Author's Tour of Whitechapel commissioned by the Whitechapel Gallery. Tickets: thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking
PAUL GRIFFITHS, the Government Inspector who approved converting WHITECHAPEL BELL FOUNDRY into a BELL-THEMED BOUTIQUE HOTEL, has now approved the conversion of the TRUMAN BREWERY into a CORPORATE OFFICE PLAZA & DATA CENTRE: shorturl.at/knuzP
Tickets available for my Spitalfields tour this Saturday 1st August. Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of history and culture followed by tea and cakes freshly baked to recipe of 1720 served in a 300 year old house overlooking Christ Church. TICKETS: shorturl.at/N8E1T
Tickets available for my Spitalfields tour this Saturday 1st August. Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of history and culture followed by tea and cakes freshly baked to recipe of 1720 served in a 300 year old house overlooking Christ Church. TICKETS: shorturl.at/N8E1T
Tickets available for my Spitalfields tour this Saturday 1st August. Join me for ramble through 2000 years of history and culture followed by tea and cakes freshly baked to recipe of 1720 served in a 300 year old house overlooking Christ Church. TICKETS: shorturl.at/N8E1T
Huge thanks to Farokh Talati, Head Chef at St John Bread & Wine, for so generously baking this magnificent Apple Strudel for the guests on The Gentle Author's Tour of Whitechapel this Sunday, commissioned by the Whitechapel Gallery Tickets: www.thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking
Join me for ramble through 2000 years of history and culture at the heart of old London followed by tea and cakes freshly baked to recipe of 1720 served in a 300 year old house overlooking Christ Church. shorturl.at/N8E1T
‘In the flesh The Gentle Author is an even better storyteller, a magician of social history who brings the past alive and reanimates the present.’ – Patrick Barkham, The Oldie TICKETS: shorturl.at/ejuCL
Happy days at the Smithfield Meat Trades Institute... Read Jack Hanlon's article on www.spitalfieldslife.com
Bastille Day celebrations at the French House this Tuesday 14th July (1-5pm) are dedicated to memory of photographer John Claridge.
Spitalfields Market on a Sunday, 1976, by Dragan Novaković. My next tour of Spitalfields is Saturday 18th July. TICKETS: shorturl.at/ejuCL
7 Wilkes St, now demolished, from Survey of London 1958. Now the heatwave is relenting my tours start again: My next tour of Spitalfields is Saturday 18th July. TICKETS: shorturl.at/ejuCL
18th century mansions in Spital Square demolished in 1963. Now the heatwave is relenting my tours start again: My next tour of Spitalfields is Saturday 18th July. And a fresh 18 degrees is predicted... TICKETS: shorturl.at/ejuCL