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This plate showing a bright crimson ‘Picta Perfecta’ dahlia, with its beautifully shaped petals edged in black, was first published in The Floricultural Cabinet and Florist’s Magazine in 1835. …
A Final Walk Home | Spitalfields Life
1 天前 · I thought long and hard about what to do with my parents’ ashes. My dad died four years ago and my mum last year. In 2015, my parents moved into a little bungalow opposite my …
In The Winter Garden | Spitalfields Life
11 小时之前 · A few years ago when the city was shut down and empty, I used to take long lone cycle rides in parts of London that were unknown to me, seeking an escape. One day in …
The Closure Of Smithfield Market | Spitalfields Life
2024年11月29日 · Another rich piece of London history. Family friends of ours dating back to the early 1950s, owned the very lucrative Christmas Turkey business at Smithfield and I have a …
On Christmas Day | Spitalfields Life
2024年12月25日 · It has become a tradition to publish this story at Christmas each year. Over successive Christmases, as I was growing up in Devon, I witnessed the disintegration of my …
In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house ...
2024年12月30日 · Click to enlarge this photograph. To dispel my disappointment that I cannot rent that Room to Let in Old Aldgate, I find myself returning to scrutinise the collection of …
The Interregnum In Spitalfields
2024年2月2日 · Today Philip Marriage introduces this series of photographs published for the first time here. “These photographs were taken almost thirty years ago, 1994-5, during what I think …
Lost Spitalfields | Spitalfields Life
2024年10月16日 · Now one of those little houses on Buxton Street would suit me just fine! Although I grew up in Chelsea and not the East End, our childhood playgrounds back in the …
Down A Well In Spitalfields | Spitalfields Life
2024年9月27日 · CLICK HERE TO BOOK. Thirty years ago, eighteen wooden plates and bowls were recovered from a silted-up well in Spitalfields. One of the largest discoveries of medieval …
Fifteenth Annual Report - Spitalfields Life
2024年8月23日 · Secondly, there is a new planning battle looming that is set to dominate the next year in Spitalfields. I am sure you will recall the fight four years ago when the Truman Brewery …