Benjamin Shapiro Of Quaker St - Spitalfields Life
WEB1 day ago · Her parents were known as Yetta & Maurice. Ben on the left, aged seventeen years old, photographed with his family on the boat going to a new life in America in 1953. Ben and his family were the first people to move into this flat in Wheler House, Quaker St, when the building was newly completed in 1949. from → Human Life.
William Henry Knapp’s Memoir | Spitalfields Life
WEB5 hours ago · William Henry Knapp. I first saw the light on the 27th July 1872 at 73 Carter Lane, London EC2, formerly Shoemakers Row. My father was employed at the above address for forty-five years in the manufacture of tobacco etc and was resident for thirty-two years past, at the place where I grew and noted the …
Literary Life - Spitalfields
WEBSep 6, 2024 · 2 7.10.24 In Itchy Park With Jack London. 11 6.19.24 A Walk With Suresh Singh. 2 5.30.24 The War On Vice In The East End. 1 5.15.24 Christopher Marlowe In Norton Folgate. 6 5.13.24 At John Keats’ House. 7 5.11.24 William Morris In The East End. 4 3.16.24 Smithfield Slang. 9 3.5.24 So Long, Bernard Kops.
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 …
In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house ...
WEBSep 8, 2024 · For good reason John Thomas Smith acquired the nickname ‘Antiquity Smith’ – while working as Keeper of Drawings at the British Museum, between 1790 & 1800, he produced a large series of etchings recording all the antiquities of London, from which I publish this selection of favourites today. Old houses in the Butcher Row near Clement’s Inn, taken down 30th March 1798 – the right hand ...
Judith Piepe In The East End | Spitalfields Life
WEB2 days ago · The couple would eventually marry in 1981, after which they bade farewell to Soho and the East End and emigrated to New Zealand. Now chiefly remembered for her connections to the world of folk music, Judith Piepe should also be celebrated for her social work, particularly with young rent boys. So many were helped by this remarkable woman.
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 ...
The Tragical Death Of An Apple Pie | Spitalfields Life
WEB4 days ago · The time in the year for apple pie has arrived again. So I take this opportunity to present The Tragical Death of an Apple Pie, an alphabet rhyme first published in 1671, in a version produced by Jemmy Catnach in the eighteen-twenties.. Poet, compositor and publisher, Catnach moved to London from Newcastle in 1812 and set up Seven Dials Press in Monmouth Court, producing more than four ...
Conditions Of Living | Spitalfields Life
WEBJuly 1, 2023. by the gentle author. A new exhibition CONDITIONS OF LIVING, at Four Corners until 2nd September, explores how photographers have represented housing and homelessness in East London over the last century. Spitalfields Gardens by Jack London, 1902, courtesy of Huntington Library. A family in a tenement house in Lisburn St, Bethnal ...
Scenes From Dennis Severs’ House | Spitalfields Life
WEBDec 21, 2021 · Scenes From Dennis Severs’ House. December 21, 2021. by the gentle author. . Over the past year, it has been my delight to work for the Spitalfields Trust at Dennis Severs’ House, devising the new Dennis Severs’ Tour and rehearsing the actors, Joel Saxon and Lisa D’Agostino who are hosts. Here I …