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3 days ago · Mike Brooke recalls his uncle Mickey Davis – affectionately known as “Mickey the Midget” – who became a popular hero when he took the initiative to organise the shelter in the basement of the Exchange where as many ten thousand people took refuge nightly, escaping the London Blitz. Mickey’s story is featured in Steve McQueen’s new film Blitz which we wholeheartedly recommend to our ...
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6 days ago · Mike Brooke recalls his uncle Mickey Davis – affectionately known as “Mickey the Midget” – who became a popular hero when he took the initiative to organise the shelter in the basement of the Exchange where as many ten thousand people took refuge nightly, escaping the London Blitz. Mickey’s story is featured in Steve McQueen’s new film Blitz which we wholeheartedly recommend to our ...
David Hoffman’s East End | Spitalfields Life
4 days ago · November 14, 2024. by the gentle author. Photographer David Hoffman will be in conversation with Gaynor Tutani at the Museum of the Home on Wednesday 20th November at 6:30pm, discussing his new book and exhibition ENDURANCE & JOY IN THE EAST END. This is the only event David is doing in person, so if you want to hear him speak please book now.
Dennis Anthony’s Petticoat Lane | Spitalfields Life
1 day ago · One Summer Sunday in the nineteen fifties, Dennis Anthony took his camera down Petticoat Lane to capture the heroes of the epic drama of market life – all wearing their Sunday best, properly turned out, and even a little swanky. There is plenty of flash tailoring and some gorgeous florals to be admired in his elegant photographs, composed ...
Old Dame Trot & Her Comical Cat | Spitalfields Life
3 days ago · Old Dame Trot & Her Comical Cat. November 15, 2024. by the gentle author. Photographer David Hoffman will be in conversation with Gaynor Tutani at the Museum of the Home on Wednesday 20th November at 6:30pm, discussing his new book and exhibition ENDURANCE & JOY IN THE EAST END. This is the only event David is …
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Samuel Pepys At St Olave’s - Spitalfields Life
Nov 11, 2024 · SAMUEL PEPYS, Sunday 17th November, 1661. Samuel Pepys’ memorial in the south aisle. Samuel Pepys’ prayerbook. Engraved nativity and fine calligraphy upon the title page of Pepys’ prayerbook. Door to the vestry. The oldest monument in the church, 1566. Memorial of Peter Capponi, a Florentine merchant & spy, 1582.
My Promise | Spitalfields Life
Oct 25, 2009 · This is both my task and my delight. Let me disclose to you the hare-brained ambition I am pursuing, which is to write at least ten thousand stories about Spitalfields life. At the rate of one a day, this will take approximately twenty-seven years and four months. Who knows what kind of life we shall be living in 2037 when I write my ten ...
The Doors Of Old London - Spitalfields Life
Oct 11, 2024 · These are the doors of old London. Some are inviting you in and some are shutting you out. Doors that lead to power and doors that lead to prison. Doors that lead to the parlour, doors that lead to the palace, and doors that lead to prayer. These are the doors that I found among hundreds of glass slides once used for magic lantern shows by the ...
Vivian Betts At The Primrose | Spitalfields Life
Feb 11, 2024 · Demolished finally in 1987, The Primrose had existed in Bishopsgate at least since 1839. “My brother Michael was born in 1942, while Bill my father was away in the war, and Violet my mother got a job as a barmaid, and when he came back she said, ‘This is how I want to spend my life.’. Their first pub was The Alfred’s Head in Gold St ...