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...
View ArticleHop 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...
View ArticleHop 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...
View ArticleRoy 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...
View ArticleWhitechapel 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...
View ArticleOn 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,...
View ArticleRelics 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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 &...
View ArticleBlackie, 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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