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WEB2 days ago — Benjamin Pollock’s Toy Shop at 73 Hoxton Market was destroyed by bombing in 1944 but this autumn its magical interior is reimagined at Dennis Severs’ House from 4th October until 10th November. Designed in collaboration with Pollock’s Toy Museum, the garden room of 18 Folgate Street will be transformed by a joyous cast of 19th-century toy-theatre characters and backgrounds alongside a ...
Blues Dances | Spitalfields Life
WEB1 day ago — In ‘79 Junior started playing the Blues Dance at Guilford Grove in Greenwich. The Blues was run by Ghent & Mary in the basement of their large family house. At that time Blues Dances gave the Black British community a place to hang out and dance to reggae, free from the hassle that so often happened in pubs and …
Fifteenth Annual Report - Spitalfields Life
WEBAug 23, 2024 — As I write this fifteenth annual report, I have two things in mind. Firstly, this past year has been especially busy as we prepare to relaunch Spitalfields Life Books in October with David Hoffman’s two-hundred-and-forty page hardback photographic monograph, ENDURANCE & JOY IN THE EAST END 1971-1987. When David was a young photographer, he ...
The Gentle Author’s Tour Of Spitalfields
WEBSep 4, 2021 — Two extra tours announced on Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd October at noon. Tickets cost £50 and include a signed copy of one of The Gentle Author’s books as a souvenir. Email [email protected] to reserve a place. Please give your first and second choice of date and specify which book of mine you …
At 37 Spital Square - Spitalfields Life
WEBSep 2, 2023 — This magnificent tottering pile is the last surviving Georgian mansion of the entire square once lined with such dwellings, which traced the outline of the former Priory of St Mary Spital that was established in 1187. Indeed, pieces of Medieval stonework from the old Priory buildings are still visible, tucked into the foundations of 37 Spital Sq.
The Spitalfields Talks | Spitalfields Life
WEBSep 20, 2022 — The talks take place on the first Tuesday of each month, commencing in October and running through the winter into next spring. Tickets are £6 and you can book for individual talks through the links below, but we hope many readers will take advantage of season tickets at £36, available direct from [email protected] All talks will ...
An Invitation From The Gentle Author | Spitalfields Life
WEB3 days ago — An Invitation From The Gentle Author. September 28, 2024. by the gentle author. .
Harry T Harmer, Artist | Spitalfields Life
WEB5 days ago — St Botolph’s Without Aldgate, 1963. The facts of the life of Harry T. Harmer (1927-2013) are scarce yet his distinctive paintings speak eloquently of his personal vision. Born in Kennington, Harry was afflicted with epilepsy and married his wife Ruby when they were both in their adolescence. Ruby offered Harry emotional support in the face of ...
Conditions Of Living | Spitalfields Life
WEBJuly 1, 2023. by the gentle author. A new exhibition CONDITIONS OF LIVING, at Four Corners until 2nd September, explores how photographers have represented housing and homelessness in East London over the last century. Spitalfields Gardens by Jack London, 1902, courtesy of Huntington Library. A family in a tenement house in Lisburn St, Bethnal ...
At John Keats’ House | Spitalfields Life
WEBMay 13, 2024 — John Keats in 1819 when he lived at Wentworth Place. Wentworth Place, completed 1816 as one of the first houses to be built in Lower Hampstead Heath. John Keats lived here. In John Keats’ study. The right hand room on the ground floor was John Keats’ study and the room above was his bedroom. Keats’ …