Spitalfields Life
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Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of culture and history at the heart of old London. www.thegentleauthorstours.com
Was the Whitechapel Mount a prehistoric burial mound? Learn the answer to the mystery of the Mount on my WHITECHAPEL TOUR. Tickets available on Sundays, 23 Aug, 6 & 23 Sept, & 18 Oct. Tour includes tea & apple strudel at the Whitechapel Gallery. TICKETS: shorturl.at/ejuCL
Tickets available for my Spitalfields tour on Saturday 15th August. Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of history and culture followed by tea and cakes freshly baked to recipe of 1720 served in a 300 year old house overlooking Christ Church. TICKETS: shorturl.at/N8E1T
spitalfieldslife.com/2026/08/03/a... What a moving poignant piece . Why can’t we embrace difference ? Good for VB going so high when others go so low to her . When you treat people better than they treat you , the moral high ground is a warm place . Thank you @thegentleauthor.bsky.social
A Visit From Viscountess Boudicca | Spitalfields Life
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Meet me on the steps of St Paul's on 31st August and we will spend the afternoon rambling through the alleys and byways of the Square Mile in search of the wonders and the wickedness of the City of London. thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking
10 years ago today, on August 3rd 2016, Viscountess Boudicca was decanted from her council flat in Bethnal Green to Uttoxeter. Last week, she paid a rare visit to London, her first in 7 years. Read the full story on www.spitalfieldslife.com
spitalfieldslife.com/2026/08/02/m... Thank you @thegentleauthor.bsky.social i must visit - what a wonder ! Glad your knees were up to your photography mission - mine wouldn’t be !
Misericords At Katherine’s Chapel | Spitalfields Life
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Roses and artichokes from Columbia Road Market this morning
Edith Tudor-Hart's 1935 photograph of a girl looking longingly in the cake shop window is perhaps the most famous photograph taken in Whitechapel. Join The Gentle Author's Tour of Whitechapel commissioned by the Whitechapel Gallery. Tickets: thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking
PAUL GRIFFITHS, the Government Inspector who approved converting WHITECHAPEL BELL FOUNDRY into a BELL-THEMED BOUTIQUE HOTEL, has now approved the conversion of the TRUMAN BREWERY into a CORPORATE OFFICE PLAZA & DATA CENTRE: shorturl.at/knuzP
Tickets available for my Spitalfields tour this Saturday 1st August. Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of history and culture followed by tea and cakes freshly baked to recipe of 1720 served in a 300 year old house overlooking Christ Church. TICKETS: shorturl.at/N8E1T
Tickets available for my Spitalfields tour this Saturday 1st August. Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of history and culture followed by tea and cakes freshly baked to recipe of 1720 served in a 300 year old house overlooking Christ Church. TICKETS: shorturl.at/N8E1T
Tickets available for my Spitalfields tour this Saturday 1st August. Join me for ramble through 2000 years of history and culture followed by tea and cakes freshly baked to recipe of 1720 served in a 300 year old house overlooking Christ Church. TICKETS: shorturl.at/N8E1T
Huge thanks to Farokh Talati, Head Chef at St John Bread & Wine, for so generously baking this magnificent Apple Strudel for the guests on The Gentle Author's Tour of Whitechapel this Sunday, commissioned by the Whitechapel Gallery Tickets: www.thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking
Another lovely post by @jackhanlon.bsky.social, this one for @thegentleauthor.bsky.social. the photos are particularly pleasing.
Jack Hanlon@jackhanlon.bsky.social · 2w agoA short piece for @thegentleauthor.bsky.social. Based on research I've been doing about education, skill and the transmission of knowledge in the meat industry. Pleased to have found a home for this picture! concentration, admiration, and knife sharpening spitalfieldslife.com/2026/07/18/a...
www.thelondonjournal.org/blog.html#Ha... A new piece up on the @thelondonjournal.bsky.social blog including some unpublished bits from my PhD; a few of my photos; and some reflections on Smithfield's long life/slow death prompted by Justinien Tribillon's @vittles.bsky.social article about Rungis
A short piece for @thegentleauthor.bsky.social. Based on research I've been doing about education, skill and the transmission of knowledge in the meat industry. Pleased to have found a home for this picture! concentration, admiration, and knife sharpening spitalfieldslife.com/2026/07/18/a...
Join me for ramble through 2000 years of history and culture at the heart of old London followed by tea and cakes freshly baked to recipe of 1720 served in a 300 year old house overlooking Christ Church. shorturl.at/N8E1T
Sunflowers from Columbia Road Market this morning
‘In the flesh The Gentle Author is an even better storyteller, a magician of social history who brings the past alive and reanimates the present.’ – Patrick Barkham, The Oldie TICKETS: shorturl.at/ejuCL
Happy days at the Smithfield Meat Trades Institute... Read Jack Hanlon's article on www.spitalfieldslife.com
Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social The Wallpapers Of Spitalfields spitalfieldslife.com/2026/07/17/t...
Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social Wonderful London’s East End spitalfieldslife.com/2026/07/15/w...
Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social In Old Rotherhithe spitalfieldslife.com/2026/07/16/i...
Bastille Day celebrations at the French House this Tuesday 14th July (1-5pm) are dedicated to memory of photographer John Claridge.
Spitalfields Market on a Sunday, 1976, by Dragan Novaković. My next tour of Spitalfields is Saturday 18th July. TICKETS: shorturl.at/ejuCL
