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- The politics of porridge by Spitalfields Life on Nov 23, 2009
Each morning when I wake here in Spitalfields, I lie for a few moments contemplating the squirrels gambolling in the yew tree outside my window before climbing from my bed to start another day. Once in the kitchen, without any conscious decision, I s...
- The house of silence by Spitalfields Life on Nov 20, 2009
There is a house in Folgate St that is famous for the quality of its silence. As you enter the door, you receive a stern instruction to restrain from speech, which is a strangely liberating experience. Let me admit, much as I love a good chat, I have...
- A sense of proportion by Spitalfields Life on Nov 18, 2009
In “Mrs Dalloway” when an unhappy young woman takes her shell-shocked husband to a clinic, the psychiatrist declares that he is not mad, he just lacks a sense of proportion. Virginia Woolf is generally considered a grim heavyweight noveli...
- St Pauls graffiti by Spitalfields Life on Nov 13, 2009
Often I step into the porch at St Pauls Cathedral to pause for a moment when I am passing on my way, walking between Spitalfields and the West End. Sometimes I am sheltering from the rain, sometimes I stand and recall the birdseed seller in the ma...
- Piss-up at the brewery! by Spitalfields Life on Nov 11, 2009
Twenty years have passed since the Truman brewery closed here in Brick Lane in 1989 and still much of it stands empty. It hard now the imagine the teeming life of the place that sustained itself over three centuries of brewing on this site. But thank...
- Brick Lane Market 1987 by Spitalfields Life on Nov 9, 2009
I bought these tiny hares made of alloy in the Coppermill Market on Cheshire Street on my first visit to Brick Lane Market in November 1987. At a Bonfire Party at Strand on the Green (a line of old houses built right into the river bank beside Kew Br...
- When Roy Kinnear got his ladder stuck by Spitalfields Life on Nov 3, 2009
This is what happens when you try to carry a ladder the wrong way down a narrow alley, as Roy Kinnear is discovering here. In this still from Joan Littlewood’s film Sparrows Can’t Sing, you can see through the arch to Cowley Gardens in St...
