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WEB4 days ago · Margaret Nairne brought her great-great-great-great-aunt’s diary to show me and I publish these excerpts today. It is an Almanack of 1776 belonging to fourteen-year-old Susannah Dalbiac, whose father Charles Dalbiac was a silk & velvet merchant who ran the family business with his brother James at 20 Spital Sq.
Susannah Dalbiac’s Diary, 1776 | Spitalfields Life
WEB2 days ago · Susannah Dalbiac’s Diary, 1776. Cover price is £35 but if you order now you can buy it for £30 and you will receive a signed copy on publication in October. Margaret Nairne brought her great-great-great-great-aunt’s diary to show me and I publish these excerpts today. It is an Almanack of 1776 belonging to fourteen-year-old Susannah ...
Purim In Stamford Hill - Spitalfields Life
WEB22 hours ago · Purim In Stamford Hill. September 21, 2024. by the gentle author. Photographer Neil Martinson introduces his pictures of the Purim festival celebrated by an orthodox Jewish community in Hackney. ‘It’s the most surprising festival in London, in which the largest orthodox Jewish community in Europe discard their …
Endurance & Joy in the East End 1971-1987 | Spitalfields Life
WEB6 days ago · Endurance & Joy in the East End 1971-1987. In spring 2019, David Hoffman asked me to publish his book and now, after more than five years of hard work, we are very proud of it and it is available for you to buy. This is a beautiful cloth-bound hardback of 240 pages containing over 200 duotone photographic prints on good quality paper, to be ...
At Ben Truman’s House | Spitalfields Life
WEB3 days ago · Behold the shadows glimmering in this old house in Princelet St built in the seventeen-twenties for Benjamin Truman. A hundred years later, a huge factory was added on the back which more than doubled the size. In the twentieth century, this became the home of the extended Gernstein family who left the house in the eighties.
Human Life - Spitalfields
WEBNov 3, 2016 · 4 4.13.23 George Dickinson, Sales Manager. 5 3.31.23 St Mary Stratford Atte Bow Church. 2 3.24.23 Some People From Spitalfields History. 3 3.21.23 Phil Mills, Steeplekeeper. 5 3.14.23 At Margolis Silver. 11 3.13.23 Sheila Bell Remembers Great Eastern Buildings.
At Anna Maria Garthwaite’s House | Spitalfields Life
WEBJune 30, 2021. by the gentle author. Anna Maria Garthwaite, the most celebrated texile designer of the eighteenth century, bought this house in Spitalfields when she was forty years old in 1728, just five years after it was built. Its purchase reflected the success she had already achieved but, living here at the very heart of the silk industry ...
So Long, Huguenots Of Spitalfields | Spitalfields Life
WEBNov 13, 2021 · The Hanbury Hall in Hanbury St was built in 1719 as a Huguenot Church, standing back from the road behind a courtyard with a pump. The building was extended in 1864 and is now the church hall for Christ Church, Spitalfields. Coat of arms in the Hanbury Hall dating from 1740, when “La Patente” Church moved into the building, signifying the ...
The Gentle Author’s Tour Of Spitalfields
WEBSep 4, 2021 · Two extra tours announced on Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd October at noon. Tickets cost £50 and include a signed copy of one of The Gentle Author’s books as a souvenir. Email [email protected] to reserve a place. Please give your first and second choice of date and specify which book of mine you …
Lost Spitalfields | Spitalfields Life
WEBSep 24, 2021 · So look back at these elegiac photos of what was lost in Spitalfields before your time, reconcile yourself to the loss of the past and brace yourself for the future that is arriving. Spital Sq, only St Botolph’s Hall on the right survives today. Spital Sq photographed in 1909. Church Passage, Spital Sq, 1733, photographed in …