In this except from A MODEST LIVING, Memoirs of a Cockney Sikh, the first London Sikh biography, Suresh Singh tells the story of his family who lived in their house in Princelet St for seventy years, ...

TICKETS AVAILABLE SATURDAY 30TH AUGUST. Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of culture and history at the heart of old London followed by tea and cakes served in a 300-year-old house overlooking ...

TICKETS AVAILABLE SATURDAY 30TH AUGUST. Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of culture and history at the heart of old London followed by tea and cakes served in a 300-year-old house overlooking ...

Sixteen years ago this week, I began to publish a daily post in these pages. In this year’s report, I am delighted to announce two pieces of good news. Firstly, the Truman Brewery’s office development ...

Fred Iles was born half a mile from his allotment in Stepney and his wife Marie grew up in Garden St that once stood where the allotment is today. They were married in St Dunstan’s, just across the ...

Doreen Fletcher is an astonishingly brilliant draughtswoman. Even though her drawings are often undertaken as preparation for paintings, they stand as art works in their own right.

Terry Bloomfield was born in 1934 and grew up in Columbia Rd as the third generation of a family that worked at Billingsgate, where he ran his own shellfish business. Between 1982, when the market ...

Curious leaden figures discovered at Shadwell” read the shameless announcement published in the ‘Illustrated Times’ of February 26th 1859, placed there by George Eastwood, eager dealer in the works of ...

Vera Galley – “I was first taken hop picking as a baby. My mum, my nan and my brothers and sisters, we all went hop picking together. I never liked the smell of hops when I was working in the hop ...