https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/07/08/adam-dants-rudimentary-london/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 09 Jul 2018 07:07:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/07/08/adam-dants-rudimentary-london/#comment-1215566 Mon, 09 Jul 2018 07:07:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=167430#comment-1215566 Today I received my signed copy of Adam Dant’s ‘Maps of London and Beyond’ in the mail. Congratulations to Adam and his publishers on a stunning achievement. My great great grandfather, George Chapman, left his home in Primrose St, Shoreditch in 1852 and sailed to Melbourne, Australia, where my family still live. It is through the daily ‘Spitalfields Life’ and beautiful books like Adam’s that I am gradually building an understanding of the life and times of my great great grandfather and his townsfolk and the places where they lived and worked. I’m so excited to be visiting London next year for the first time to see some of these places with my own eyes. By that time I will have examined every last detail of Adam’s maps. Thanks so much.

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