Hackney is one of the most exciting up-and-coming areas of London. It has surely become the trendiest among the other places that makes it the perfect choice of residents to live in Hackney… Read More

TRAVEL CORRESPONDENCELos Angeles in 2023 LOS ANGELES –  Los Angeles is an ever-evolving destination that constantly creates new experiences to discover, and 2023 will b… Read More

All titles in the online shop are half price with the discount code JANUARY until midnight on Sunday. Click here to visit the Spitalfields Life Bookshop Today I present these extracts to giv… Read More

Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far to my crowd-funder to launch a COMMUNITY TOURISM PROJECT in Spitalfields as a BETTER ALTERNATIVE to the serial killer tours that monetise mis… Read More

James Mc Barron died on Monday at the fine age of ninety-four, he was born in Hoxton on 21st September 1926 James McBarron When I published Horace Warner’s photographs of Spitalfields… Read More

Join me in sending birthday wishes to Milly Abrahams, 100 years old today! Milly Abrahams (nee Markovitch) Photographer Martin Usborne & I took the trip to Wembley to visit Milly Abraha… Read More

It has been an interesting year, one in which those with a few quid stashed away have really felt the benefit.  Where we go from here though, and the lessons we take from this annus… Read More

Brick Lane 1978 Photographer Syd Shelton‘s enduring fascination with the East End was sparked by a childhood visit from Yorkshire with an uncle and aunt more than fifty years ago. &ld… Read More

Next week on Wednesday November 21st at 11am a blue plaque is being unveiled for A.S. Jasper, author of A HOXTON CHILDHOOD & THE YEARS AFTER at his last home in Walthamstow, 37 First Ave… Read More

Lorna with her mother Esther in Whitechapel, 1950 In this photograph, Lorna Brunstein is held by her mother outside Fishberg’s jewellers on the corner of Black Lion Yard and Whitechap… Read More

Only this week have I learnt the sad news of the death of Maurice Franklin, the wood turner, on 5th November last year aged ninety-eight. Over the years, Maurice’s story has proved to… Read More

Milly Abrahams (nee Markovitch) Contributing Photographer Martin Usborne & I took the trip to Wembley to visit Milly Abrahams, whose late brother Joseph Markovitch was the subject… Read More

Contributing Writer Sarah Winman, author of When God Was a Rabbit & A Year of Marvellous Ways, interviewed Pat Nightgale last week on an especially showery day “A little girl with… Read More