Illustrator Joan Beales holds a very special place in my heart. Her first picture book Pip and the Six Cooks, published in ...

If you are looking for TV repair in the East End, I recommend you visit Master Tech in Heneage St off Brick Lane – where, not ...

In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London ...

Favourite illustrator Alice Pattullo has just completed two projects on the subjects of fire and ice in the history of the ...

I am proud to publish these excerpts from GRAVE STORIES by a graduate of my writing course. The author, known as ‘Gravedigger ...

I decided to take advantage of the October sunshine by enjoying an excursion to Chiswick House. I have to confess that it is ...

My brothers Paul, Howard and myself occupied one bedroom at 17 Milward St, Whitechapel, behind the London Hospital. We had ...

Ron’s Gents Hairdressers, Three Colts Lane, Bethnal Green, is still there but has changed from ‘Hairdresser’ to ‘Barber.’ ...

I wanted to learn all that I could about my cousin Colonel Edward Marcus Despard (1751-1803), an Irishman of Huguenot descent ...

Readers may recall that I visited Brunswick House in Vauxhall to interview Adrian Amos, the founder of London Architectural Salvage & Supply Company (LASSCO), earlier this year. It was my pleasure to ...