Posts Tagged ‘local history’
Broadway Market’s most enigmatic furniture shop: we talk to the shopkeeper/owner of Broadway Retro
Broadway Retro has no web presence, no sign and is “mainly shut” – but a look around and a chat with owner and shopkeeper Sarah Bancroft reveals many a reason to visit, and some fascinating insights into the storied market
Read MoreA Hoxton Childhood and The Years After by A.S. Jasper, book review: it’s a hard Hox life
A.S. Jasper was better known as Stan in early twentieth-century Hoxton, where he struggled through a hungry upbringing. Our review looks at his two volumes of “first-person insight into a time when the welfare state was but a twinkle in the labour movement’s eye…”
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