Spitalfields

Author : The Gentle Author
Publisher : Saltyard Books
ISBN 13 : 9781444703962
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spitalfields Life written by The Gentle Author and published by Saltyard Books. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am going to write every single day and tell you about my life here in Spitalfields at the heart of London..." Drawing comparisons with Pepys, Mayhew and Dickens, the gentle author of Spitalfields Life has gained an extraordinary following in recent years, by writing hundreds of lively pen portraits of the infinite variety of people who live and work in the East End of London. Everything you seek in London can be found here - street life, street art, markets, diverse food, immigrant culture, ancient houses and history, pageants and parades, rituals and customs, traditional trades and old family businesses. Spend a night in the bakery at St John, ride the rounds with the Spitalfields milkman, drop in to the Golden Heart for a pint, meet a fourth-generation paper bag seller, a mudlark who discovers treasure in the river Thames, a window cleaner who sees ghosts and a master bell-founder whose business started in 1570. Join the bunny girls for their annual reunion, visit the wax sellers of Wentworth Street and discover the site of Shakespeare's first theatre. All of human life is here in Spitalfields Life.

Author : Dan Cruickshank
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448164567
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spitalfields written by Dan Cruickshank and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE HESSELL-TILTMAN HISTORY PRIZE 2017 AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 Religious strife, civil conflict, waves of immigration, the rise and fall of industry, great prosperity and grinding poverty – the handful of streets that constitute modern Spitalfields have witnessed all this and much more. In Spitalfields, one of Britain's best-loved historians tells the stories of the streets he has lived in for four decades. Starting in Roman times and continuing right up to the present day, Cruickshank explains how Spitalfields' streets evolved, what people have lived there, and what lives they have led. En route, he discovers the tales of the Huguenot weavers who made Spitalfields their own after the Great Fire of London. He recounts the experiences of the first Jewish immigrants. He evokes the slum-ridden courts and alleys of Jack the Ripper's Spitalfields. And he describes the transformation of the Spitalfields he first encountered in the 1970s from a war-damaged collection of semi-derelict houses to the vibrant community it is today. This is a fascinating evocation of one of London's most distinctive districts. At the same time, it is a history of England in miniature.

Author : Nathaniel Thomas Haynes BAYLY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spitalfields Weaver, Etc written by Nathaniel Thomas Haynes BAYLY and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reports from Select Committees of H.C., and Evidence written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Tallack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peter Bedford, the Spitalfield's Philanthropist written by William Tallack and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2080 pages
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Download or read book Robson's London Directory, Street Key, Classification of Trades, and Royal Court Guide and Peerage: Particularizing the Residences of 70,000 Establishments in London and Its Environs, and Fifteen Thousand of the Nobility and Gentry, Also an Extensive Conveyance List, Alphabetical List of Public Carriers, Together with the Street Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 2080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Horace Warner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957656949
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spitalfields Nippers written by Horace Warner and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around 1900, photographer Horace Warner took a series of portraits of some of the poorest people in London - creating relaxed, intimate images that gave dignity to his subjects and producing great photography that is without parallel. Discovered recently and only seen by members of Warner's family for more than a century, almost all of these photographs are published here for the first time.

Author : Dennis Severs
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448112516
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 18 Folgate Street written by Dennis Severs and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in California, Dennis Severs fell in love with the England he saw in old black and white movies. At seventeen he came to London, looking for a home with a heart. In 1979 he found one, a run-down silk-weaver's house in Spitalfields, and over the next twenty years he transformed it into an enchanted time-capsule, transporting us back to the eighteenth century. From cellar to roof, he filled 18 Folgate Street with original objects and furniture, found in the local markets, lit by candles and chandeliers. More than that, he invented a family to live here, the Jervis family, Huguenot weavers who fled persecution in France in 1688, and bought the house in 1724. Sounds and scents bring their world to life, always just out of sight - floorboards creak, fires crackle, a kettle hisses on the hob. Visitors step through the frame of time, like entering an old master painting. As we move from room to room on a tour you will never forget, we follow the Jervis story from the days of the Georges and the Regency to harsher Victorian times - and even to the attic room of Scrooge himself.

Author : Walter Alexander Locks
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book East London Antiquities written by Walter Alexander Locks and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Jackson Howard
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
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Download or read book Visitation of England and Wales written by Joseph Jackson Howard and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: