Photo portrait of Primo Pellicci still presides over the cafe where he started work in 1900.
Storefront of E Pellici cafe
Christmas card from Charlie Kray, 1980
Spitalsfield Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social At the Pellicci Museum spitalfieldslife.com/2026/03/01/a...
01.03.2026 14:51 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1spitalfieldslife.com/2026/03/02/a... Who knew? Thank you for sharing @thegentleauthor.bsky.social
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Photo portrait of Tommy Cooper, looking pensive, holding a cigar.
Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social When John Claridge Met Tommy Cooper spitalfieldslife.com/2026/03/03/w...
03.03.2026 20:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0spitalfieldslife.com/2026/02/24/t... A day late and still worth sharing ! @thegentleauthor.bsky.social
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Suresh Singh: Chinnee Kaur, My Mum (via @thegentleauthor.bsky.social) spitalfieldslife.com/2026/02/26/c...
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February sunlight on old Penguins
24.02.2026 15:40 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0spitalfieldslife.com/2026/02/20/a... An encouragement to move this intriguing book up my reading pile! Thank you @thegentleauthor.bsky.social
20.02.2026 13:53 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Cherry blossom for Chinese New Year
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Fascinating ; thank you for sharing @thegentleauthor.bsky.social
The citrus trees that flourish with abundant fruit in the depths of winter amongst the back streets and yards of Spitalfields give us hope
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Narcissus from Columbia Road Market this afternoon
15.02.2026 15:30 — 👍 48 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0spitalfieldslife.com/2026/02/12/j... a wonderful piece of history that remember . Thank you @thegentleauthor.bsky.social
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John the Fox. Joyce Edwards' squatter portraits are now being shown publicly for the first time at Four Corners in Bethnal Green in an exhibition entitled, 'Joyce Edwards: A Story Of Squatters', which opens on 13th February and runs until Saturday 20th March.
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Very happy that I finally got one of these - feeling absolutely shattered notwithstanding. Beautiful piece of mid-century Wedgwood, that harks back a couple of centuries further.
08.02.2026 18:04 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
1959 cream Wedgwood jug with the Samuel Johnson quote, 'When a man is tired of London he is tired of life'.
I got one! Coincidentally displayed near a lustre ship jug, too, though again it's a C20th one.
08.02.2026 17:53 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Congratukations Jo! It looks very fine,,,
11.02.2026 13:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Absolutely mind-blowing photo gallery. It's like something out of, or actually even far exceeds, something like Fritz Lang's "Metropolis". spitalfieldslife.com/2026/02/09/f... @thegentleauthor.bsky.social #rope #hemp #industry #machines
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Meet me on the steps of St Paul's for a tour of sightseeing and storytelling, rambling through the alleys and byways of the Square Mile in search of the wonders and wickedness of the City of London.
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spitalfieldslife.com/2026/02/03/s... thank you for this nourishing post . @thegentleauthor.bsky.social
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Stephen Watts. Photo by Lucinda Douglas-Menzies.
Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social Stephen Watts, Poet (photo by Lucinda Douglas-Menzies) spitalfieldslife.com/2026/02/03/s...
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I am giving an illustrated lecture about Colin O’Brien, the Clerkenwell Photographer, on Tuesday 10th February at 6:30pm at Islington Museum, 245 St John St, EC1V 4NB. Entry is free and no booking is required, just come along.
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I am giving an illustrated lecture about Colin O’Brien, the Clerkenwell Photographer, on Tuesday 10th February at 6:30pm at Islington Museum, 245 St John St, EC1V 4NB. Entry is free and no booking is required, just come along.
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A wonderful post by @thegentleauthor.bsky.social about the 1896 catalogue for The Metropolitan Machinists’ Co with the bells, lamps, saddles, trouser clips, capes, gaiters and other accessories for the discerning Victorian cyclist
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spitalfieldslife.com/2026/01/25/a... Love the essential messages of humanity that you bring out , questioning funny ; provoking joy and laughter ; not taking ourselves too seriously; valuing female child entertainers. Thank you @thegentleauthor.bsky.social
25.01.2026 08:53 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social spitalfieldslife.com/2026/01/18/c...
22.01.2026 17:20 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0spitalfieldslife.com/2026/01/23/e... beautiful , sad and moving @thegentleauthor.bsky.social
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Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social Eva Frankfurther, Artist spitalfieldslife.com/2026/01/23/e...
23.01.2026 14:41 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social Gillian Tindall’s Lost People spitalfieldslife.com/2026/01/22/g...
22.01.2026 14:14 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0spitalfieldslife.com/2026/01/20/s... thank you for feeding our need for hope ; you’ve found it in nature @thegentleauthor.bsky.social
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