Philip Cunningham sent me his account of living in Mile End Place in the seventies when it was under the shadow of redevelopment In the sixties and seventies, planners were still pursuing in the ...

You do not meet many people who can say they come from Shadwell these days, not in the way that Ray Newton could when he told you his family had been there since at least 1820 – ...

All readers are invited to a free screening of a short film about Mario’s entitled PROBABLY NOT THE HAIRCUT by Zak Crafer, tomorrow Wednesday 8th May 6:30-7pm at Mario’s Gents’ Hairdressing, 562A High ...

On a recent bright spring morning, Contributing Photographer Rachel Ferriman and I paid a visit to the Ragged School Museum in Copperfield Rd, Bow, next to the canal. One hundred and fifty years ago, ...

The redbrick building of St. Benet’s has Portland stone corners with garlands of fruit and flowers hanging over each window. It sits marooned in a dead end lane with St. Paul’s Cathedral beyond. A ...

One of my favourite annual events in London is the Punch & Judy Festival which is always held on the second Sunday in May at the churchyard of St Paul’s Covent Garden. This year it is to be held on ...

The constitution of the soil in Kent is ideal for cherries and the temperate climate, in which the tender saplings are sheltered from the wind by long hedges of hornbeam, produces a delicacy of ...

You only walk in the alleys if you have a strong stomach and stout shoes, if you are willing to ignore the stink and the sinister puddles for the sake of striking out alone from the throng of humanity ...

Trafalgar Sq is famous for the man perched high above it on the column, but I recently discovered another man hidden beneath the square who hardly anybody knows about and he is just as interesting to ...