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Gentle Author, The, 'Spitalfields life : "in the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London"', illustrations by Mark Hearld, Lucinda Rogers and Rob Ryan, Saltyard Book Co., London, 2013. ISBN 9781444703962
19th-century Spitalfields is the setting for the film From Hell, a fictional retelling of the story of Jack the Ripper. In December 2009 an anonymous Spitalfields resident started a blog called Spitalfields Life, writing under the pseudonym "The Gentle Author", and promising to post 10,000 daily
Having grown up in a boxing family, Claridge has taken over 100 photographs of members of the London Ex-Boxer's Association, which were serially published by The Gentle Author, 2012-2013. Of Claridge's Soho Faces project (2004-2017) he said, "I decided to document the customers at The French in earnest. For me, it was the one place in Soho that ...
Richard Cornelius MacCormac was born in Marylebone, London on 3 September 1938, the son of Dr. Henry MacCormac (1879 – 12 December 1950), CBE FRCP, a dermatologist of Ulster origin, and Marion Maude MacCormac (1906–1998; née Broomhall). [2]
London: Spitalfields Life Books, 2013. Edited by The Gentle Author. 65. London: They That Do, 2014. ISBN 978-0992776107. Edition of 1500 copies. "65 images spanning 65 years". Boxed edition. London: They That Do, 2014. Included a print and a set of 10 postcards. Edition of 400 copies. London Life. London: Spitalfields Life Books, 2015.
18 Folgate Street. London, United Kingdom. Coordinates. 51°31′15″N 0°4′36″W. / 51.52083°N 0.07667°W / 51.52083; -0.07667. Website. Dennis Severs' House. Dennis Severs' House is a historical tourist attraction in Folgate Street, London. Created by Dennis Severs, who owned and lived in the house until his death, it is intended ...
William Whiffin. William Thomas Whiffin (1878–1957) was a photographer who pioneered what would later be termed street photography in suburban East London in the first half of the twentieth century. William was born in Poplar. [1] His father, also called William, ran a photography business, which William later took over.
1667. Died. 10 October 1729. Nationality. British. Occupation. gardener. Thomas Fairchild (? 1667 – 10 October 1729) was an English gardener, "the leading nurseryman of his day", working in London. He corresponded with Carl Linnæus, and helped by experiments to establish the existence of sex in plants, then still denied by most botanists. [1]