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My job gives me the privilege of being out and about every day in London.
Whether leading a walk, visiting a museum or gallery, or just enjoying the city's bustle or its quiet spaces, there's always something new to see, something interesting going on.
In my blog, I seek to reflect the ever-changing patterns of life in the greatest City on Earth!
Spitalfields Gentle Author launches latest book – evocative pix of the old East End
The 18th century is often described as the age of elegance – in dress, etiquette, furniture, ceramics and silver. And the Huguenot craftsmen – goldsmiths, silk weavers, designers played a [More…]
The wonderful, long-overdue Huguenot Festival,8-21 April, centres on Spitalfields. This year is the 250 anniversary of the death of Anna Maria Garthwaite, the outstanding English designer of patterned silks. Â In [More…]
The Huguenots of Spitalfields festival is running from 8 April to 21 April and is set to be a f antastic hit. Â walks, talks, visits, demonstrations of weaving, it’s an [More…]
THE GREAT SPITALFIELDS HUGUENOT FEST…Don’t even think of missing it.All the details are on the website! And very exciting – talks by Dan Cruickshank and Tessa Murdoch (and me!), walks [More…]
Some of the most delightful discoveries in Spitalfields are found sunk into the pavements – the decorative iron roundels, visual markers of Spitalfields’ rich history. Here are a couple of [More…]
Look closely at these early 17C houses in Spitalfields – they look so solid, don’t they? But some were built only one brick deep, some only one room deep. They [More…]
Spitalfields, just outside the old City of London, is one of the most fascinating areas of London. Nearly two thousand years ago, the Romans buried their dead here; then came [More…]