Join me this Saturday for tea and cakes freshly baked to a recipe of 1720 served in a three hundred year old house in ...

Magnificent Apple Strudel kindly baked by Farokh Talati, Head Chef at St John Bread & Wine for the lucky guests on this ...

‘There isn’t really a word for it in English,’ admitted Terry Barns, ‘in French, they call it ‘matelotage’ meaning ‘sailors’ knot-making.’ ...

Simon Carter, Keeper of Collections at St Paul’s. In a hidden chamber within the roof of St Paul’s sits Christopher Wren’ ...

The Countryman arrived in London. Beaten by bullies & robbed.

Click here to book for my next Whitechapel Tour on Sunday 23rd August. Tour includes tea and apple strudel at the Whitechapel Gallery. One of my favourite places in the East End is Bow Church, so it ...

You only walk in the alleys if you have a strong stomach and stout shoes, if you are willing to ignore the stink and the sinister puddles for the sake of striking out alone from the throng of humanity ...

In 1930, basketmaker and artist Henry Silk sits alone in his sparsely furnished room in Rounton Rd in Bow surrounded by few personal possessions. He glances in the mirror and realises that he is no ...

I spent a morning on my knees in St Katharine’s Chapel in Limehouse, photographing these rare survivors of fourteenth century sculpture, believed to have been created around 1360 for the medieval St ...

But even when Bishop Waldhere (693-c.705) acquired Fulham Manor around the year 700, it was just the most recent dwelling upon a site beside the Thames that had already been in constant habitation ...

Viscountess Boudicca. Ten years ago today, on August 3rd 2016, Viscountess Boudicca was decanted from her council flat in Bethn ...