It does, as they say, exactly what it says on the tin. John G. Bennett’s new book takes the reader on a ramble round the inner East End, cleft in twain to cover the two areas of the title. You’ll find the usual cast of …
Spitalfields Market was the venue yesterday for an Argentine-style open air milonga. In the pleasant, balmy evening air, couples of all ages enjoyed a half-hour tuition class before taking to the floor and twirling away to the melancholic sound of the bandoneón. If you want …
Image / Che-burashka Get your decorated dome down Spitalfields way tonight, for the folk at Beyond Retro are having an evening of hat-based excitement. Alongside master millner Stephen Jones will be other luminaries of the hat world: Bernstock Spiers, Noel Stewart, and Piers Atkinson will …
Just round the corner from the revitalized (and frankly rather homogenized) Spitalfields Market is the Water Poet at 9-11 Folgate Street, E1 4BX. It’s a lovely pub (a very pub-y pub in fact) and, as far as we can tell, a brilliant place to visit …
While many of you spent your lunch breaks gorging on pancakes just because you could, there were a few who decided that some exercise was a flipping great idea before indulging in the sweet or savoury goodness of the humble pancake. The Great Spitalfields Pancake …
Londonist likes a good campaign as much as anyone else, which is why we backed the efforts of Team Nice to make London a nicer place to be, putting out 1,000 ‘nice’ tokens into circulation to acknowledge good deeds. Channel 4′s new ‘Battlefront’ programme aims …
Why, it’s Mr Recycle More, of course. Tower Hamlets’ answer to Wall-E hit the streets of Spitalfields yesterday to preach the green gospel. If we’ve learned anything from the movies, he’s sure to go bad, overthrow his masters and smash up the controversial market development …
Sherry. It’s not just for Nan at Christmas. It’s for anybody hankering some fine wine to go with the right tasty morsels. Today, tomorrow and Friday offer a superb opportunity to sample a few of Jerez’s best (thanks to the Sherry Institute of Spain) along …
So very many opportunities to take advantage of this week in London! Summer’s in full swing, and there are more outdoor festivals, gallery shows, lectures, film screenings, and general merriment than we know what to do with. Get started with this round-up for those light …
The London Nobody Knows, filmed in 1967, documented some of the less salubrious parts of swingin’ London. In this clip, James Mason visits the site of a Ripper killing, at a time when some of the oldest residents still remembered the murders.
If the idea of going to the country over the weekend is just a bit too involved, heading over to Old Spitalfields Market today might be able to give you some illusion of escaping the big city. Though billed as “the Countryside Comes to Spitalfields,” …
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