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WEB2 days ago · 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.
Down A Well In Spitalfields | Spitalfields Life
WEB5 hours ago · September 27, 2024. by the gentle author. CLICK HERE TO BOOK. Thirty years ago, eighteen wooden plates and bowls were recovered from a silted-up well in Spitalfields. One of the largest discoveries of medieval wooden vessels ever made in this country, they are believed to be dishes belonging to …
Harry T Harmer, Artist | Spitalfields Life
WEB1 day 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 ...
Susannah Dalbiac’s Diary, 1776 | Spitalfields Life
WEBSep 18, 2024 · 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 ...
Endurance & Joy in the East End 1971-1987 | Spitalfields Life
WEBSep 14, 2024 · Endurance & Joy in the East End 1971-1987. In spring 2019, David Hoffman asked me to publish his book and now, after more than five years of hard work, we are very proud of it and it is available for you to buy. This is a beautiful cloth-bound hardback of 240 pages containing over 200 duotone photographic prints on good quality paper, to be ...
Human Life - Spitalfields
WEBNov 3, 2016 · 66.12.23 Pedro da Costa Felgueiras, Lacquer & Paint Specialist (Japanner) 76.11.23 Pamela Cilia, Bottling Girl. 76.10.23 The Return Of David Prescott. 56.9.23 William Kent’s Arch In Bow. 56.2.23 Mike Henbrey, Collector. 36.1.23 The Spitalfields Roman Woman. 65.31.23 Dan Jones’ East End Portraits.
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 …
John Stow’s Spittle Fields | Spitalfields Life
WEBApr 24, 2024 · Born into a family of tallow chandlers, John Stow became a tailor yet devoted his life to writing and publishing, including an early edition of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer who had lived nearby in Aldgate more than a century earlier. In Stow’s lifetime, the population of London quadrupled and much of the city he knew as a youth was ...
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 ...
So Long, Huguenots Of Spitalfields | Spitalfields Life
WEBNov 13, 2021 · The Hanbury Hall in Hanbury St was built in 1719 as a Huguenot Church, standing back from the road behind a courtyard with a pump. The building was extended in 1864 and is now the church hall for Christ Church, Spitalfields. Coat of arms in the Hanbury Hall dating from 1740, when “La Patente” Church moved into the building, signifying the ...
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