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The Cats of Spitalfields 27 Aug 2013 | 04:01 am
Contributing Photographer Chris Kelly is renowned for her volume of cat photography The Necessary Cat – A Photographer’s Memoir, so I asked her if she would make a survey of the cats of Spitalfields a...
Neville Turner of Elder St 26 Aug 2013 | 04:01 am
This is Neville Turner sitting on the step of number seven Elder St, just as he used to when he was growing up in this house in the nineteen forties and fifties. Once upon a time, young Neville carved...
Eleanor Crowe’s East End Cafes 25 Aug 2013 | 04:01 am
Syd’s Coffee Stall, Shoreditch High St Illustrator Eleanor Crow made this set of watercolour portraits of cafes as a tribute to those cherished institutions which incarnate the essence of civility in...
At Embassy Electrical Supplies 24 Aug 2013 | 04:01 am
Mehmet Murat It comes as no surprise to learn that at Embassy Electrical Supplies in Clerkenwell, you can buy lightbulbs, fuses and cables, but rather more unexpected to discover that, while you are ...
Fourth Annual Report 23 Aug 2013 | 04:01 am
It was four years ago that I published my first post here in the pages of Spitalfields Life and I did it blindly without any grasp of where it might lead. I did not know if I was capable of writing a ...
Anna Carter, Carters Steam Fair 22 Aug 2013 | 06:33 am
“It’s my baby” Carters Steam Fair graces Victoria Park this weekend and Contributing Photographer Colin O’Brien & I went along yesterday to meet Anna Carter, who started the fair with her husband Joh...
Julius Mendes Price’s London Types, 3 21 Aug 2013 | 04:01 am
This is the third set of London Types designed and written by artist Julius Mendes Price and issued by Carreras with Black Cat Cigarettes in 1919. Of particular note are the Billingsgate Fish Porters ...
Marie Iles, Machinist 20 Aug 2013 | 07:00 am
Apart from memorable excursions outside London as an evacuee, Marie Iles has lived her entire life within a quarter mile of Stepney and it suits her very well. Those wartime experiences taught her the...
In Search of the Spitalfields Nippers 19 Aug 2013 | 04:01 am
Portrait of Tommy Nail, Courtesy of The Religious Society of Friends “Let me introduce you to the Spitalfields Nippers of 1901-2 as photographed by Horace Warner. Although the origin of these picture...
The Return of Crescent Trading 18 Aug 2013 | 05:06 am
The boys are back! No doubt you remember my pals Philip Pittack & Martin White - the Mike & Bernie Winters of the textile business – famous for their ceaseless repartee and classy taste in fabrics? T...
