Please sign our petition to prevent the displacement of communities on Brick Lane. Community needs ignored. bit.ly/bricklanepetit…

Dire Straits performing ‘Sultans Of Swing’ in their first ever TV performance live on BBC’s The Old Grey Whistle Test, 1978. This performance took place three days before the UK release of their eponymous debut single. The rest is history.

Then & Now: The Crown, Seven Dials, Covent Garden c 1900 Grade II listed building, first established in 1833 and said to have been a haunt of Charles Dickens, when the area was full of crime. The dome at the top has gone but the clock looks original.

Next week on 31st July, Tower Hamlets Council decides upon the future of the Truman Brewery and therefore on the future identity of Spitalfields itself. spitalfieldslife.com/2025/07/22/wil…

A photo of Mile End Road, 1900. The clock tower was built in 1840 and is Grade II Listed, but the surrounding area was damaged in 1940 and no longer survives. See this photo and others in our London's East End gallery on LPA: buff.ly/WjzZpMe #London #EastEnd #Stepney

Will The Truman Brewery Become Homes Or Offices? Next week, on 31st July, Tower Hamlets Council decides upon the future of the Truman Brewery and therefore on the future identity of Spitalfields itself. Guest article by Spitalfields Life whitechapellondon.co.uk/save-brick-lan…

International body steps in to protect the Tower of London This is centred around 76-storey One Undershaft, which when completed, will become London’s joint tallest building alongside The Shard southwarknews.co.uk/area/london/in…

Down this narrow passage off Borough High Street there's a unique survivor... This is the only over-hanging timber-framed building in the area, once The Goat Inn which was established c.1542! Read its history in the latest blog here: lookup.london/calverts-build…

Listen to this rare recording of The Steam Packet covering The Impressions ‘It’s Alright’ on for BBC radio in 1965 with Sir Rod Stewart on lead vocals..

"Everyone checked any possible egos and gave it to the song. That's too damn cool." "The hardest part of creating this song was getting Yngwie Malmsteen to play his part without shredding." Nuno Bettencourt, Steve Vai, Brian May, Zakk Wylde, Yngwie Malmsteen, Tosin Abasi

70 years old today: Rat Scabies, most famously of #TheDamned Pics: Erica Echenberg youtu.be/kSbgLqTo_Ac?si…

We are now in the Whitechapel Townhall to #SaveBrickLane as councillors debate the fate of Brick Lane. Lots of objectors and local communities present to see how cllrs vote.

‘Emporium, Commercial Road’ 2017. I moved to the East End in 1983 and this shop was already run down . The building survived almost 40 years. Then gone in a puff of rubble & smoke! ⁦Richard Morris⁩ ⁦Spitalfields Life⁩ ⁦Paintings of London⁩ ⁦Guildhall Art Gallery⁩

Here’s a clip from a BBC Show about the somewhat chaotic Rome Pop Festival 1968 .. Julie Driscoll and us guys in The Trinity having fun despite the all the craziness!

The Beatles performing "Help" at the ABC Theater to promote their new album (1965)

The Notre Dame Hall, now the Leicester Square Theatre, 1970s. Not much info about it in the internet. Which bands did you see here?

Residents of 1970s #Southwark, #London have their say on how they feel that they're are being driven out by newcoming developers who are moving in and pricing them out of the market in order to pave the way for the corporate, standoffish, and gentrified area we know today.

“When I get older, losing my mind Not that long from now Will you still be sending me a valentine Birthday greetings, hydralazine?” In celebration of Ringo Starr’s recent 85th birthday, discover some updated Beatles lyrics. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/FHk1gx

A rare survival back to the early 15th century is Bromley Hall, an early Tudor manor at Bromley by Bow and said to be the oldest brick building in London. During the Dissolution of the Monasteries, it was seized by Henry VIII in 1531 and used as a retreat.

Most of Inner London fell into poverty in the twentieth century, and expensive neighbourhoods like Notting Hill, Pimlico and Islington were seen as slums just decades ago. Here is a street in Notting Hill in the 1970s and today. Why did this happen? Some thoughts.