Like bats, bells lead secluded lives hibernating in dark towers high above cathedrals and churches. Thus it was that I set out to climb to the top of the south west tower of St Paul’s Cathedral last ...

There is a such a pleasing geometry to the architecture of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Christ Church, Spitalfields, completed in 1729, that when you glance upon the satisfying order of the facade you might ...

Glenys with her dad Stanley Arnabaldi in their cafe at 100 Commercial St When I met Glenys Bristow (1922-2017), she did not live in Spitalfields anymore but in a well-kept flat in a quiet corner of ...

Sebastian Harding‘s model of the Truman Brewery was the centrepiece of the Save Brick Lane exhibition, but he has been making architectural models for years – especially of buildings that are lost – ...

Contributing Photographer Sarah Ainslie & I first met Parkash Kaur when we were making portraits of the residents of the Holland Estate next to Petticoat Lane in Spitalfields. It was evident then that ...