Like an old book jammed into a crowded bookcase, the London Library sits wedged in the corner of St James’ Sq. Years ago, I had the privilege of a subsidised membership for a spell, and I loved to ...

Growing up in the large flat above the Spitalfields Fruit & Vegetable Market at 103 Commercial St, with school and the family business nearby, David Prescott had the run of the neighbourhood and he ...

Pool Square, three storeyed houses, rough women about, Irish. One house with a wooden top storey, windows broken. This is the last of an Irish colony, the Jews begin to predominate when Grey Eagle St ...

I met Paddy when he returned to Dennis Severs’ House to have his portrait taken by Lucinda Douglas Menzies in 2022. In her portrait above you see him seated in the Dickens’ attic at the house.

Sally with her first child Danny in the early nineteen fifties. Sally’s children, Maureen, Jimmy, Pat and Theresa in the yard in Whitechapel in 1962. Sally’s husband, Joseph Flood. Sally in ...

GOOD COLOUR – When a sheet is printed neither too dark or too light. GULL – To tear the point holes in a sheet of paper while printing. HELL – The place where the broken and battered type goes to.

There is a familiar style of presentation in which the broken fragments of wall are neatly cemented in place while the former internal spaces are replaced by manicured lawns. This is the case at ...

19 11.28.13 Joseph Markovitch, I’ve Lived In East London For Eighty-Six & A Half Years ...