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WEBSep 17, 2024 · Margaret Nairne brought her great-great-great-great-aunt’s diary to show me and I publish these excerpts today. It is an Almanack of 1776 belonging to fourteen-year-old Susannah Dalbiac, whose father Charles Dalbiac was a silk & velvet merchant who ran the family business with his brother James at 20 Spital Sq.
Human Life - Spitalfields
WEBNov 3, 2016 · 4 4.13.23 George Dickinson, Sales Manager. 5 3.31.23 St Mary Stratford Atte Bow Church. 2 3.24.23 Some People From Spitalfields History. 3 3.21.23 Phil Mills, Steeplekeeper. 5 3.14.23 At Margolis Silver. 11 3.13.23 Sheila Bell Remembers Great Eastern Buildings.
Marie Lenclos’ Still Light | Spitalfields Life
WEB1 day ago · September 23, 2024. by the gentle author. Artist Marie Lenclos introduces her new exhibition of paintings Still Light which opens at Townhouse this Saturday 28th September and runs until Sunday 13th October. Blue Door, Fournier St. ‘When I first came to London in the nineties as an Erasmus student, Spitafields immediately became a …
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 ...
Susannah Dalbiac’s Diary, 1776 | Spitalfields Life
WEB5 days ago · Susannah Dalbiac’s Diary, 1776. Cover price is £35 but if you order now you can buy it for £30 and you will receive a signed copy on publication in October. Margaret Nairne brought her great-great-great-great-aunt’s diary to show me and I publish these excerpts today. It is an Almanack of 1776 belonging to fourteen-year-old Susannah ...
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 …
Lost Spitalfields | Spitalfields Life
WEBSep 24, 2021 · So look back at these elegiac photos of what was lost in Spitalfields before your time, reconcile yourself to the loss of the past and brace yourself for the future that is arriving. Spital Sq, only St Botolph’s Hall on the right survives today. Spital Sq photographed in 1909. Church Passage, Spital Sq, 1733, photographed in …
The Renewal Of Dennis Severs’ House | Spitalfields Life
WEBJul 28, 2021 · Dennis Severs’ House in Spitalfields has been closed for the past year but, behind the scenes, a small army has been working to renew the house for reopening this week. Lucinda Douglas Menzies did their portraits.. The piece of promenade theatre I have created, as a re-imagination of the tours that Dennis Severs gave in the eighties, commences this Thursday 29th July and booking is open ...
People You May Meet On My Tour | Spitalfields Life
WEBMar 18, 2023 · The tour (took it with three friends in early January) is absolutely fabulous – really opened my eyes to all sorts of different ideas and sights that I have been thinking and reading about since: urban planning (and how much of what we see as modern has roots back to the 16th century); Culpepper’s Herbal (had/still have an early copy that I appreciate anew); progress; community and courage ...
Aubrey Silkoff At The Boundary Estate | Spitalfields Life
WEBOct 13, 2021 · I do understand Aubrey’s sentiment of life. This is a written piece that I really do feel I connect with. Those kids would have got a clip round the ear from the local bobby if he had found them carving their names like that, not knowing that actually they were creating a real tangible piece of history.
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