https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/08/29/the-old-city-of-london-iiii/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:08:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/08/29/the-old-city-of-london-iiii/#comment-2174103 Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:08:52 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=207912#comment-2174103 Lovely photos! I’m familiar with all of these places. There is much to mourn the loss of… I miss the Throgmorton restaurant and bars. The George & Vulture is still there but Simpsons Chophouse is gone, and Leadenhall is no longer a proper marketplace. And Billingsgate is just offices.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/08/29/the-old-city-of-london-iiii/#comment-2174088 Sat, 29 Aug 2026 07:27:18 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=207912#comment-2174088 My late husband worked on Ludgate Hill (top picture), and when Winston Churchill’s funeral in the 1960s travelled up on its way to St Paul’s, they all hung out of the office windows watching the cortege go up the hill. Even better, we had close family links to the Verger of St Paul’s at the time, who provided my parents with tickets (which I still have, plus their programmes) to be in the Cathedral. My dad was a huge fan of Churchill, and glad he managed to be at his funeral, ‘cos sadly my Dad died himself the following year from a sudden Stroke. He was in his mid 50s, and I was still in my teens.

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