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Chris Miles’ East End

Join me this Saturday for tea and cakes freshly baked to a recipe of 1720 served in a three hundred year old house in Fournier St overlooking Christ Church. Click here to book for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S...

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Hop Picking Season

Click to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours    This selection of hop picking photographs is from the archive of Tower Hamlets Community Housing. Traditionally, this was the time when East Enders...

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Hop Picking Portraits

Book now for my tours through August, September & October   Contributing Photographer Sarah Ainslie & I spoke to some former hop pickers who were kind enough to share their tales of past...

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Roy Wild, Hop Picker

Book now for my tours through August, September & October There is Roy on the far right with his left hand stuck in his pocket, to indicate the appropriate air of nonchalance befitting a...

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Whitechapel Lads

Click here to book your ticket for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF WHITECHAPEL this Sunday 23rd August . These portraits were taken around 1900 at the Working Lads Institute, known today as the...

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On The Beat With PC Lew Tassell

Harry bakes the cakes for my tour to recipe of 1720. Tickets available for The Gentle Author’s Tour of Spitalfields this Saturday. Click here to book Lew Tassell at the Mansion House . Lew Tassell,...

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Relics At St Paul’s From Before The Fire

Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours Fragments of Old St Paul’s stored in the triforium at New St Paul’s   Sir Christopher Wren’s success at St Paul’s Cathedral is to have envisaged...

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The Old City Of London

The City of London has long been a subject of fascination for me and these powerfully atmospheric glass slides of over a century ago from the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society Collection...

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The Highdays & Holidays Of Old London

Join me for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF THE CITY OF LONDON this afternoon Bank Holiday Monday 31st August at 2pm CLICK HERE TO BOOK . On Bank Holiday Monday, let us to consider the highdays &...

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Blackie, The Last Spitalfields Market Cat

We are taking bookings for my tours through the autumn. Click here to book . Here you see Blackie, the last Spitalfields market cat, taking a nap in the premises of Williams Watercress at 11 Gun St....

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