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John Thomas Smith’s Rural Cottages
CLICK HERE TO BOOK Near Battlebridge, Middlesex As the equinox approaches and autumn closes in, I get the urge to go to ground, hiding myself away in some remote cabin and not straying from the...
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Tom Fellows, London’s Oldest Cabbie
Click to book Here is Tom Fellows at eighty-six years old, squinting into the light with a half-smile that betrays a circumspect nature honed by a lifetime driving a cab around London. Tom has seen...
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In Search Of Roman London
Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours Roman London is still under construction From Spitalfields, you have only to walk down Bishopsgate to find yourself in Londinium, since the line of...
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On Top Of Britannic House With Lew Tassell
Click here to book Detective Constable Tassell of the City of London Police Serious Fraud Squad magically escorts us forty-three years back in time and onto the roof of Britannic House in Ropemaker...
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Thomas Rowlandson’s Cries Of London
Only two more Whitechapel tours remaining on Sunday 20th September and Sunday 18th October. Tours include tea and freshly baked apple strudel at the Whitechapel Gallery. Click here to book I was...
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Twenty-five years ago this morning, I woke in an apartment in New York City. It was around eight-thirty when my friend called from outside the bank in Midtown, where he had gone to deposit cheques. He...
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At The Shops With Tony Hall
Tickets available for The Gentle Author’s Tour of Spitalfields this Saturday 12th September. Click here to book In the sixties and seventies when these pictures were taken, every street corner in...
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The East End In The Afternoon
Tickets available for The Gentle Author’s Tour of Spitalfields this Saturday 12th September. Click here to book There is little traffic on the road, children are at play, housewives linger in...
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David Mason, Wilton’s Music Hall
Tickets available for The Gentle Author’s Tour of Spitalfields next Saturday 12th September. Click here to book When I arrived to meet David Mason in the bar at Wilton’s Music Hall, the only person...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Stranger’s Guide To London
Click here to book for my tours . Any readers from out of town who are preparing a visit to the capital this summer might like to read these excerpts from The Stranger’s Guide, exposing all the frauds...
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