Contributing Photographer Sarah Ainslie & I enjoyed an exciting day out recently at the magnificent Hippodrome in Cranbourn St on the corner of Leicester Sq and Charing Cross Rd – the veritable corner ...

Tracing a trajectory running northeast and southwest between Shoreditch Church and the crossing of the River Lea at Clapton, the Black Path links with Old St in one direction and extends beyond ...

In his last interview, Dennis Potter famously eulogised the glory of cherry blossom as an incarnation of the overwhelming vividness of human experience. “The nowness of everything is absolutely ...

Hosted by The Gentle Author, this is a walking tour of storytelling and sightseeing, complemented with archive photography, paintings and music. Tours commence at 2pm, meeting outside Aldgate Station ...

Auriculas were first recorded in England in the Elizabethan period as a passtime of the elite but it was in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that they became a widespread passion amongst ...

I am delighted to announce THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF PETTICOAT LANE, a new tour for 2025, launching this spring. Experience the drama of the celebrated market and meet some those who made it ...

In horticultural lore, auriculas have always been associated with Spitalfields and writer Patricia Cleveland-Peck has a mission to bring them back again. She believes that the Huguenots brought them ...