Join me for ramble through 2000 years of culture and history in Spitalfields at the heart of old London followed by tea and cakes freshly baked to recipe of 1720 served in a 300 year old house. thegentleauthorstours.com
Lanma Horton, Smithfield Market 1992. Support our crowdfund to publish a book of the magnificent portraits of WOMEN AT WORK taken by photographer Sarah Ainslie since 1992. crowdfunder.co.uk/p/sarah-ains...
Laura Porter, Powerlifter. Please support our crowdfund to publish a book of the magnificent portraits of WOMEN AT WORK taken by Spitalfields Life Contributing photographer Sarah Ainslie since 1992. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/sarah-ains...
Anna & Maria Pellicci say please support our crowdfund to publish a book of the magnificent portraits of WOMEN AT WORK taken by Spitalfields Life Contributing photographer Sarah Ainslie since 1992. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/sarah-ains...
French tulips (Avignon Parrot) from Columbia Road Market this morning
Please support my crowdfund to publish a book of the magnificent portraits of WOMEN AT WORK taken by Spitalfields Life Contributing photographer Sarah Ainslie since 1992. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/sarah-ains...
Join me for ramble through 2000 years of culture and history in Spitalfields at the heart of old London followed by tea and cakes freshly baked to recipe of 1720 served in a 300 year old house. thegentleauthorstours.com
Everyone in the neighbourhood knows Sandra Esqulant, beloved landlady of the Golden Heart in Commercial St, sometime hula-hoop dancer, darling of the contemporary art world and the uncrowned monarch of Spitalfields.
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This is John Allin's painting of the Jewish Soup Kitchen in Brune Street, 1973. Join my Spitalfields Tour to visit the Soup Kitchen and learn the story behind this.
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On my tour we visit the locations of Horace Warner's SPITALFIELDS NIPPERS portraits of 1900 and tell the stories behind the pictures. thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking
Alan Shipp is Britain’s only Hyacinth Grower and is also the Custodian of the National Collection of Hyacinths. He has the world’s largest collection of varieties and knows more about this intriguing plant than anyone else alive.
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Black cat being held in the Bricklayers Arms pub in Commercial Road. East London.
'Cockney Cats'
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#CatsOfBluesky #London #Spitalfields
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Copeman, Gardener, Yarmouth by John Dempsey from the eighteen-twenties reproduced courtesy of Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery. spitalfieldslife.com/2026/03/22/j...
This is Linda Carney in 1963 when she worked as a machinist in a factory above the Jewish Soup Kitchen in Spitalfields. Linda is one of the many local people you will meet on my tour. thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking
Hyacinths from Columbia Road Market this morning
All April tours are sold out but tickets are available in May and beyond. Join me for ramble through 2000 years of culture and history in Spitalfields followed by tea and cakes freshly baked to recipe of 1720 served in a 300 year old house. thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking
Here is the 1720 recipe for the Queens Cakes from Mary Stockdale's book that we serve at the end of my tour of Spitalfields.
All my April tours are now sold out but tickets are available in May and beyond.
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Could be but I cannot say for certain. I do not recognise this location.
This is Harry Thomas, the baker who makes all the cakes for my walking tours from Mary Stockdale's recipe of 1721.
All my April tours are now sold out but tickets are available in May and beyond.
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All my April tours are now sold out but tickets are available in May and beyond.
Join me for ramble through 2000 years of culture and history in Spitalfields followed by tea and cakes freshly baked to recipe of 1720 served in a 300 year old house. thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking
Bow Cemetery in sunshine, featuring old gravestones amidst verdant spring ground cover featuring bluebells among the foliage, slender-trunked trees in the background.
“… the clouds were gone and dazzling sunshine descended in shafts through the forest canopy turning the wet leaves into a million tiny mirrors, reflecting light in a vision of phantasmagoric luminosity.”
@thegentleauthor.bsky.social celebrates Bluebells @ Bow spitalfieldslife.com/2026/04/06/b...
I’m always delighted by @thegentleauthor.bsky.social’s Easter visits to the Viscountess. Belated Easter wishes to her from NYC.
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Striped tulips and pied narcissus from Columbia Road Market on Easter Sunday
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Stained glass window showing Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), who gained professional status for nurses and raised hospital standards in the Crimea.
Stained glass window showing Captain "Flying" Bertie Dwyer (1872-1967), who‘was one of the early Cresta riders, a President of the St Moritz Tobogganing Club and winner of several trophies.
Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social Ann Sotheran’s West End Champions spitalfieldslife.com/2026/04/04/a...
“THIS ALMES HOUSE wherein twenty-eight decay’d Masters & Commanders of Ships, or ye Widows of such are maintain’d, was built by ye CORP. of TRINITY HOUSE, ano 1695. The Ground was given by Capt. HENY MUDD of Rattcliff an Elder Brother, whose Widow did alfo Contribute.”
Trinity Green Almshouses
Meet me on Easter Monday on the steps of St Paul's for a tour of sightseeing and storytelling, rambling through the alleys and byways of the Square Mile in search of the wonders and the wickedness of the City of London. thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking
Meet me on Easter Monday on the steps of St Paul's for a tour of sightseeing and storytelling, rambling through the alleys and byways of the Square Mile in search of the wonders and the wickedness of the City of London. thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking