Only this week, have I learnt that my friend Gary Arber – the legendary printer of the Roman Rd – died three years ago. Gary lived a reclusive existence in Romford and, since I had not received any ...

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 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 A ...

The great goodsyard in Bishopsgate is an empty place these days, home to a pop-up shopping mall of sea containers and temporary football pitches, but Roy Wild knew it in its heyday as a busy rail ...

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 ...

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. CLICK HERE TO BOOK TICKETS Mercers’ Hall, ...

Like princesses from a fairy tale, the Broderers of St Paul’s sit high up in a tower at the great cathedral stitching magnificent creations in their secret garret and, recently, Contributing ...

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. CLICK HERE TO BOOK TICKETS ...

At certain fashionable restaurants nearby, “Electrical Shop Olives” are a popular feature on the menu, sending customers scurrying along to the Murats’ premises next morning to purchase their own ...