Spitalfields Life
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Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of culture and history at the heart of old London (I am also to be found at @thegentleauthor.bsky.social)
Spitalfields
Joined December 2010
I am giving an illustrated lecture of Spitalfields & Whitechapel in Old Photographs on Thursday 16th October at 7pm at the Hanbury Hall in Hanbury St, E1 6QR. Tickets https://t.co/fiqS84m9w3
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@SaveRidleyRoad @SAVEtoReuse @_TheWhitechapel @SavetheWbf @DennisSeversHse @thegentleauthor @CoffeeAfrique @TheCriticMag @justspace7 @michaellondonsf
#SaveBrickLane campaign group is the Rule 6 party. Providing local communities a voice in the Public Inquiry against Truman Estate monstrous office blocks. Pls donate to our legal fund https://t.co/p7uh5vW49i
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Very pleased to receive today copies of German edition ‘The Buddha of Suburbia’ and ‘The Black Album’ by Hanif Kureishi with cover illustrations of ‘Whitsunday, Commercial Road’ and ‘Benjy’s Mile End’. @thegentleauthor @PaintingsLondon @Hanifkureishi
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I am giving an illustrated lecture of Spitalfields & Whitechapel in Old Photographs on Thursday 16th October at 7pm at the Hanbury Hall in Hanbury St, E1 6QR. Tickets https://t.co/fiqS84m9w3
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The #SaveBrickLane campaign’s inquiry begins next week. We need people to show up to the inquiry and support the local community with this fight! It will go on for 14 days at the Brady Arts and Community Centre on Hanbury Street.
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'The Port of London' (1920-24) by William Patrick Roberts (Tate)
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Anti-racist protest outside Tower Hamlets Council a few moments ago. Called by Tower Hamlets Unison and Stand Up To Racism
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I am giving an illustrated lecture of Spitalfields & Whitechapel in Old Photographs on Thursday 16th October at 7pm at the Hanbury Hall in Hanbury St, E1 6QR. Tickets https://t.co/fiqS84m9w3
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Sadly I can’t go as I have a ballet ticket, but do go if you can, @thegentleauthor is wonderfully knowledgeable.
I am giving an illustrated lecture of Spitalfields & Whitechapel in Old Photographs on Thursday 16th October at 7pm at the Hanbury Hall in Hanbury St, E1 6QR. Tickets https://t.co/fiqS84m9w3
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I am giving an illustrated lecture of Spitalfields & Whitechapel in Old Photographs on Thursday 16th October at 7pm at the Hanbury Hall in Hanbury St, E1 6QR. Tickets https://t.co/fiqS84m9w3
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I am giving an illustrated lecture of Spitalfields & Whitechapel in Old Photographs on Thursday 16th October at 7pm at the Hanbury Hall in Hanbury St, E1 6QR. Tickets https://t.co/fiqS84m9w3
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‘After the Hurricane’ 1988 Storm Amy reminded me of the painting I began a few weeks after the devastation caused in October1987, featuring King Edward Memorial Park, Shadwell. Unusually I have included myself in this picture! @thegentleauthor @ahistoryinart
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I am giving an illustrated lecture of Spitalfields & Whitechapel in Old Photographs on Thursday 16th October at 7pm at the Hanbury Hall in Hanbury St, E1 6QR. Tickets https://t.co/fiqS84m9w3
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@thegentleauthor Gillian Tindall wrote so well. The engine, when it finally appeared, would at first seem friendly but then grief in size, becoming enormous, a dragon 20 foot high that crashed past with such a din and a fleeting blast of heat that we would cower... (The Pulse Glass)
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R.I.P. Tindall’s 2006 ‘The House by The Thames: and the people who lived there’ explored the residents of 49 Bankside in Southwark.
It is with a heart full of emotion that I have to announce that my good friend the historian GILLIAN TINDALL died on Wednesday aged 86. In February, Gillian asked me to publish her final work, JOURNAL OF A MAN UNKNOWN, which comes out on 6th November. https://t.co/dGRh4YSVtL
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How sad. She was my neighbour in Kentish Town. I must have seen her several times a week in Leighton Road, or popping in or out of the butcher's.
It is with a heart full of emotion that I have to announce that my good friend the historian GILLIAN TINDALL died on Wednesday aged 86. In February, Gillian asked me to publish her final work, JOURNAL OF A MAN UNKNOWN, which comes out on 6th November. https://t.co/dGRh4YSVtL
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Sad news, my favourite Historian, the Fields beneath got me to Kentish Town. Met her once at the Dickens plaque event in Fitzrovia.
It is with a heart full of emotion that I have to announce that my good friend the historian GILLIAN TINDALL died on Wednesday aged 86. In February, Gillian asked me to publish her final work, JOURNAL OF A MAN UNKNOWN, which comes out on 6th November. https://t.co/dGRh4YSVtL
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Sad news. ‘The Fields Beneath’ and ‘The House by the Thames’ are two of the best books ever written about London’s history. I hadn’t realised till I looked her up how wide was her range, or that she started by writing fiction…
It is with a heart full of emotion that I have to announce that my good friend the historian GILLIAN TINDALL died on Wednesday aged 86. In February, Gillian asked me to publish her final work, JOURNAL OF A MAN UNKNOWN, which comes out on 6th November. https://t.co/dGRh4YSVtL
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It is with a heart full of emotion that I have to announce that my good friend the historian GILLIAN TINDALL died on Wednesday aged 86. In February, Gillian asked me to publish her final work, JOURNAL OF A MAN UNKNOWN, which comes out on 6th November. https://t.co/dGRh4YSVtL
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