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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

Writer & biographer M. Syd Rosen is on a quest to discover his family’s past and explore the significance of Yiddish culture today My grandfather’s cousins’ butcher’s shop in Wentworth St photographed ...

When I visited Harry the Pencil in Mile End once, he showed me this modest little sketchbook that he filled when he was working in Great Sutton St, Clerkenwell, undertaking a single half hour drawing ...

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 ...

All I can say is Dorothy deserves a plaque in the school . Such teachers are rare like gold on a beer stained table . I got told by a family member that when he was at school the ...