Leaving Spitalfields, I turned left and walked straight down Bishopsgate to the river, passing Pudding Lane where the Fire of London started at the King’s Bakery, reminding me that a bakery was ...

Opening at Four Corners Gallery in Bethnal Green this Friday 24th October, A World Apart: Photographing Change in London’s East End 1970-76 captures a unique moment in the East End.

Marie Lenclos has turned her attention to the maze of streets surrounding Columbia Rd Flower Market in Bethnal Green with their curious and contrasting range of domestic architectures. Her new ...

I set out early from Spitalfields, crossing the freshly fallen snow in Weavers’ Fields and walking due East until I came to the premises of Arber & Co Ltd at 459 Roman Rd. Once I rang the bell, Gary ...

I am giving an illustrated lecture of Spitalfields & Whitechapel in Old Photographs this Thursday 16th October at 7pm at the Hanbury Hall in Hanbury St, E1 6QR. CLICK HERE TO BOOK TICKETS ...

In 2018, I started wandering along the Thames from Limehouse to Tilbury documenting the peripheries of London where urban and rural life collide. A disappearing, endlessly changing landscape, so close ...

Garden scene with photographer’s cloth backdrop c.1900 These beautiful photographs are all that exist to speak of the life of Charles Jones. Very little is known of the events and tenor of his ...

Please drop an email to spitalfieldslife@gmail.com to attend the launch Click to enlarge Sometimes in London, I think I hear a lone dog barking in the distance and I wonder if it is an echo from ...

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.

Piccadilly, c. 1900 In my mind, I live in old London as much as I live in the contemporary London of here and now. Maybe I have spent too much time looking at photographs of old London – such as these ...