In retrospect, I recognise the equivocal nature of this experience, because I also sought a screening of The Exorcist with similar results. Perhaps I sought consolation in having my worst fears ...

In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London ...

In the heart of the Kentish Weald, at the centre of the village of Charing, lies a collection of ancient flint buildings that comprise the remains of a majestic archbishops’ palace dating back to the ...

Steven Harris sent me this candid memoir of his childhood in Great Eastern Buildings off Brick Lane ...

At one time, Roy bought small blackboard signs, that were used by greengrocers to price their stock in chalk, from Mr Patson in Artillery Lane. Mr Patson sliced the tickets out of hardboard, cut up ...

This is the face of the dead man in Clerkenwell. He does not look perturbed by the change in the weather. Once winters wore him out, but now he rests beneath the streets of the modern city he will ...

Favourite illustrator Marion Elliot has conjured this magnificent alphabet of folk, superstition and lore as part of FROM A-Z & BACK AGAIN, an exhibition of three ...