GOOD COLOUR – When a sheet is printed neither too dark or too light. GULL – To tear the point holes in a sheet of paper while printing. HELL – The place where the broken and battered type goes to.

Sally with her first child Danny in the early nineteen fifties. Sally’s children, Maureen, Jimmy, Pat and Theresa in the yard in Whitechapel in 1962. Sally’s husband, Joseph Flood. Sally in ...

CLICK HERE TO BOOK FOR FOR AUGUST, SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER In the East London volume of Charles Booth’s notebooks of research for his Survey into Life & Labour of the People of London (1886-1903), I came ...

Only recently did I learn that there is an abbey and a wood at Abbey Wood. Stunned by my own obtuseness, I set out to discover what I have been missing all these years. Visiting ruins was a memorable ...

CLICK HERE TO BOOK FOR MY TOURS & BUY GIFT VOUCHERS Libby Hall remembered the first time she visited a pub with Tony Hall in the nineteen sixties – because it signalled the beginning of their ...

Courtesy of Jemmy Catnach of Catnach Press, it is my pleasure to publish this early nineteenth century shaggy dog tale of the devoted Mother Hubbard – believed to be by Sarah Catherine Martin ...

Reg took me inside to show me St Botolph’s Hall, lined with oak panelling of 1725 from a demolished stately home in Northamptonshire, where the two original statues peer out from behind glass ...

In the summer of 1971, eight hundred pupils went on strike in Stepney, demanding that their teacher, Chris Searle, be reinstated after the school fired him for publishing a book of their poetry. At a ...