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Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of culture and history at the heart of old London. www.thegentleauthorstours.com
Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social David Prescott Of Commercial St spitalfieldslife.com/2025/08/02/d...
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Booking now through AUGUST, SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER. thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking
30.07.2025 10:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Good Morning Michelle, I am aware of interracial marriages but not necessarily involving Scottish women in the East End. You could try TH Local History archive. Meanwhile, you might appreciate this: spitalfieldslife.com/2023/08/17/t...
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Booking through AUGUST, SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER now.
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This is your LAST CHANCE TO SAVE BRICK LANE! Sign the petition demanding HOMES not OFFICES on the Truman Brewery site before the council make their decision on Thursday 31st July: bit.ly/bricklanepetition
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Erygium, achillea and asters from Columbia Road Market this morning
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The Stepney School Strike
“… one of the proudest days of my life, it taught me that you can make a stand. It was about dignified mutual respect. He didn’t expect the worst of us, he believed everyone could produce work of value.”
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spitalfieldslife.com/2025/07/24/t... Best to remember and learn and not forget and repeat . Thank you Chris Searle and @thegentleauthor.bsky.social
24.07.2025 19:57 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0spitalfieldslife.com/2025/07/23/i... Thank you @thegentleauthor.bsky.social
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Next week on 31st July, Tower Hamlets Council decides upon the future of the Truman Brewery and therefore on the future identity of Spitalfields itself. spitalfieldslife.com/2025/07/22/w...
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Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social Cockney Beanos spitalfieldslife.com/2025/07/20/c...
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Canterbury bells from Columbia Road Market this morning
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“They conjure an air of ritualistic mystery and, the more I encountered, the more intrigued I became.”
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Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social Nicholas Culpeper’s Spitalfields #morethanweeds spitalfieldslife.com/2025/07/17/n...
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Tessa Hunkin signs off the pages of her beautiful Hackney Mosaic Project book on press at the printers in Vicenza ready for publication by Spitalfields Life Books on October 2nd.
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Chatham Royal Docks near Rochester, Kent showing officers housing and one of the rope walks from 1729 @thegentleauthor.bsky.social
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TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR MY TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS THIS SATURDAY 19TH JULY. Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of culture at the heart of old London followed by tea and cakes baked freshly to a recipe of 1720 served in a 300 year old house. thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking
16.07.2025 10:46 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Community Action Day: Jul 31st 5pm outside Whitechapel Town Hall against destruction and displacement in Spitalfields by the Truman Brewery #SaveBrickLane
15.07.2025 10:27 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0spitalfieldslife.com/2025/07/14/l... inspiring ! A visit is definitely in order! Thanks for shining a light @thegentleauthor.bsky.social
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Sheila Robinson and @thegentleauthor.bsky.social at Great Bardfield
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Dahlias from Columbia Road Market this morning
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My next tour of Spitalfields is SATURDAY 19TH JULY.
Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of culture at the heart of old London followed by tea and cakes baked freshly to a recipe of 1720 served in a 300 year old house.
thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking
My next tour of Spitalfields is SATURDAY 19TH JULY.
Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of culture at the heart of old London followed by tea and cakes baked freshly to a recipe of 1720 served in a 300 year old house.
www.thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking
Concerns over misleading tactics and validity of the consultation in Liverpool Street Station scheme
www.victoriansociety.org.uk/national-new...
spitalfieldslife.com/2025/07/08/s... a key shop/service to save @thegentleauthor.bsky.social
08.07.2025 20:36 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0A great selection by @thegentleauthor.bsky.social of Caslon factory photos held by the St Bride Printing Library
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The stranglehold "landlords " have on our lives, creativity, happiness, peace is outrageous right now.
08.07.2025 16:01 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Please sign this petition to save Leila's Shop, which is facing the stark choice of 300% rent increase or eviction. #SaveLeilasShop
08.07.2025 06:08 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
In common with all the shops in Calvert Avenue – leading up to Arnold Circus on the Boundary Estate – LEILA'S SHOP is being challenged by
@towerhamletsnow
with eviction or 300% rent increase this October.
SIGN THE PETITION: bit.ly/leilas_petit...
“… I went along to explore Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington to find the graves of the Music Hall Artistes resting there.”
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