“A very nice gentleman – well turned out – stood in my doorway and asked, ‘Charles Dickens doesn’t live here anymore, does he?'” Maureen admitted to me with a sly grin. “I said, ‘No, he doesn’t.’ And ...

In retrospect, I recognise the equivocal nature of this experience, because I also sought a screening of The Exorcist with similar results. Perhaps I sought consolation in having my worst fears ...

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

This is the face of the dead man in Clerkenwell. He does not look perturbed by the change in the weather. Once winters wore him out, but now he rests beneath the streets of the modern city he will ...

Favourite illustrator Marion Elliot has conjured this magnificent alphabet of folk, superstition and lore as part of FROM A-Z & BACK AGAIN, an exhibition of three ...

In the heart of the Kentish Weald, at the centre of the village of Charing, lies a collection of ancient flint buildings that comprise the remains of a majestic archbishops’ palace dating back to the ...

Paul Gardner, the current incumbent and fourth generation in Spitalfields oldest family business, Gardners’ Market Sundriesmen in Commercial St (now relocated to 78 Ruckolt Rd, E10 5NP), was just ...

Steven Harris sent me this candid memoir of his childhood in Great Eastern Buildings off Brick Lane ...

In the garden shed of his peaceful house beside Epping Forest, Jimmy Pollock keeps just wooden one box as a souvenir of his thirty-seven years in the Spitalfields Fruit & Vegetable Market. A native of ...