I was living in Cable Street in the late seventies in a top floor flat with no balcony. One day I went to a community festival and Friends of the Earth were offering plots here. I was given one in ...

Gardens in Spitalfields are open for visitors this year on Saturday 7th June from 10am – 4pm. Find details at the website of the National Gardens Scheme.

In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London ...

There is a fine house in Fournier St with an old fireplace lined with manganese Delft tiles of an attractive mulberry hue illustrating lurid Biblical scenes. Installed when the house was built in the ...

The crowdfund for Tessa Hunkin’s Hackney Mosaic Project book closes today Saturday 17th May at midnight Within living memory, the busiest port in the world was here in the East End but now the docks ...

The particular theatre I have in mind is the Grecian Theatre attached to the Eagle Tavern in Shepherdess Walk, City Road between Angel and Old St. The place seems to have developed quite a reputation, ...

There would be no mass Yiddish tomorrow as dreamed of by the linguists of Czernowitz. But still Yiddish thrived in London, as it did all over the world, leaving in its wake a voluminous and varied ...

In the eighties, Contributing Photographer Sarah Ainslie photographed the street performers of Covent Garden and her pictures are currently being exhibited at Paul Smith, 40-43 Floral St, WC2E 9TB ...

Thanks to the generosity of 230 readers who contributed to our crowdfund and some other donors, we have raised the budget for Tessa Hunkin’s Hackney Mosaic Project which will be published on Thursday ...