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

On the semiquincentennial, as we contemplate the disturbing irony of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in which the American colonies set out to rid themselves of the tyranny of monarchs, ...

Contributing Photographer Sarah Ainslie & I were delighted to shelter under a tree and share a cuppa with Head Gardener Laura Buckley at the Cranbrook Community Food Garden in Bethnal Green during a ...

Mark Richards explores the controversial work of photographer Edith Tudor-Hart and her secret life as a Soviet agent in London ...

Remembering my old cat Mr Pussy who died in 2017. The sagacious Mr Pussy. There is an exceptional hush upon the East End, with with the heat and the football conspiring to empty t ...

Proving that he puts his money where his mouth is, thirteen years ago Mark came along to buy a tray for his wife’s birthday, discovered that the business was going into liquidation and agreed to take ...

Richard Ardagh, author of Type Archived, A visual journey through typographic history introduces the typefounders of East London. The Caslon tomb at St Luke’s, Old St. Typograph ...

The lavender growing tradition in Surrey is kept alive by Mayfield Lavender in Banstead where visitors may stroll through fields of different varieties and then enjoy lavender ice cream or a cream tea ...

Next tickets available 18th July for The Gentle Author’s Tour of Spitalfields Clare Market c.1900 I never knew there was a picture of the legendary and long-vanished Clare Market – where Joseph ...

Click here to book for the Gentle Author’s Tours After he photographed the end of the trams in 1952 at the age of twelve, photographer Colin O’Brien became fascinated by recording the ‘last days’ of ...

David Johnson took these magnificent photographs of cafes in Kodachrome around 1980. “When I lived in East London, I started this project to photograph some classic cafes, mainly in the East End – but ...