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Spitalfields Life
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In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London.
- Added on: Sep 28th, 2009
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: the gentle author
- Listed in: Europe Living Well
- Tags: Culture Local cooking history gardening personalities
Recent Posts
The first mince pies of the season
The commencement of the grouse shooting season on the Glorious Fourth and the arrival of the Beaujolais Nouveau are without interest for me for me, what I get excited about is the First Batch of Mince Pies baked on 1st December each year by Mr Gella...
Robert Ryan, papercut artist
In a quiet street off the Old Bethnal Green Rd, there is a large wooden door. If you go through a smaller door within this large one, you enter a passage, under an arch, that leads to a courtyard where there is another door. Go through this door, cl...
Spitalfields’ magnificent organ
For over a century, we were proud to say we had the biggest organ in the country here in Spitalfields. Richard Bridge’s organ built for Christ Church in 1735 is the only large organ to survive in Britain from the age of Handel and, as Bridge i...
Columbia Road Market 14
As I came round the corner into Columbia Rd early this morning, my heart leapt to see the first Christmas trees of the season on sale in the market. I walked up and down, savouring the fragrance of pine in the empty market beneath a sky heavy with r...
Shelf life
Ever since it first opened, I have been making regular trips to Shelf in Cheshire St to discover what is new, so after all these years it was great pleasure to call in and meet the co-founders Jane Petrie and Katy Hackney for a cup of tea last week....
Ashley Jordan Gordon, photographer
The gaze of this girl on Kingsland Rd is inescapable, she is the still point at the centre of Ashley Jordan Gordon’s unforgettable photograph. With the deep perspective of Shoreditch High St to her left and the momentum of the crowd to her ri...
Great narrative and pictures
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