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In 1971, Photographer David Hoffman moved into a squat in Fieldgate Mansions in Whitechapel and found himself at the centre of a lively and vibrant community. Learn the full story and visit Fieldgate Mansions as part of The Gentle Author's Tour of Whitech

Tickets are available for my tour of Whitechapel this Sunday and for Spitalfields on Saturday 12th September. Click here to book for The Gentle Author's Tours . They say it is the oldest road in Britain, maybe the oldest in Europe. Starting from the highe

Click here to book for The Gentle Author's Tours Today I publish a selection from Peta Bridle's exhibition London Day by Day which opens tomorrow, September 3rd, at Southwark Cathedral and runs until 14th October. The show takes its title from Geoffrey Fl

Discover the exhibitions at Southwark Cathedral.

We are taking bookings for my tours through the autumn. Click here to book . Here you see Blackie, the last Spitalfields market cat, taking a nap in the premises of Williams Watercress at 11 Gun St. Presiding over Blackie - as she sleeps peacefully among

Join me for THE GENTLE AUTHOR'S TOUR OF THE CITY OF LONDON this afternoon Bank Holiday Monday 31st August at 2pm CLICK HERE TO BOOK . On Bank Holiday Monday, let us to consider the highdays & holidays of old London Boys lining up at The Oval, c.1930 Schoo

Textile Consultant Martin White died on Thursday aged ninety-five. After the loss of his business partner Philip Pittack from Covid in 2020, Martin continued running Crescent Trading, Spitalfields' last cloth warehouse, until recently. Martin White, aged

The City of London has long been a subject of fascination for me and these powerfully atmospheric glass slides of over a century ago from the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society Collection at the Bishopsgate Institute evoke the drama and mystery of

Seventeen years ago this week, I began to publish a daily post in these pages. In this year's annual report I have both good news and bad news, as you will read below. One concerns the fate of the Truman Brewery while the other is the announcement of Sara

Click here to book for The Gentle Author's Tours Fragments of Old St Paul's stored in the triforium at New St Paul's Sir Christopher Wren's success at St Paul's Cathedral is to have envisaged architecture of such absolute assurance that it is impossible t