Creepy trees at Hollow Ponds

In advance of a picnic trip if the weather holds, I thought I’d share some eerie pictures of twisted trees at Hollow Ponds in the Leytonstone end of Epping Forest. I’m sure it’ll look less spooky in the sunshine, but there was something a little wild and strange about the place, certainly compared to your [...]

Botolph-without-Bishopsgate

While I was pootling around Bishopsgate the other day (in fact I was attending a breakfast seminar about online fundraising, but that’s another fascinating story… I stepped inside the very lovely and highly incongruous St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate church.
The thing that drew me in there most of all was the windows, made of that beautiful old swishy [...]

Further adventures of the East London Suffragettes

For anyone who knows the area, these were the addresses of the various East London Federation of Suffragettes projects, 1912 - 1924:
First ELFS HQ - 198 Bow Road (site only)
A baker’s shop that became Sylvia Pankhurst’s first East London office. To the shock and, I’m sure, disapproval of the local inhabitants she painted ‘Votes for [...]

Suffragettery in Bow

In honour of International Women’s Day yesterday, and the fact that 2008 marks 90 years since UK women won the vote, I thought I’d post a little bit about Sylvia Pankhurst and the suffragettes of East London. There is suffragettery all over the place around here. As you walk out of the station you’ll see [...]