At almost 98, poet Eula Harrison has a fierce lyrical gift: “I write in bed and have quite a few pen marks on my bed linen as a result.”
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Hazel Phillips tells the amazing story of James Blackburn, Clerkenwell’s ‘white collar’ convict
Islington Council has announced plans for major changes to Clerkenwell Green, writes Amelia Braddick
A new vision for using technology to tell the history of Clerkenwell and Smithfield
Faster broadband for Bunhill and Clerkenwell
Faster broadband is on the cards for council homes as a digital roll-out gets underway.
Title deeds: Clerkenwell pub names explained Betsy Trotwood, Alice Owen, Slaughtered Lamb… Sam Cullen, co-author of a new book on London’s pub names, picks a...
Meet Barnard and Westwood the Royal's favourite stationer Don’t tell everyone, but the Royal’s favourite stationer Barnard and Westwood is based in Clerkenwell...
Forget January’s gym bonanza. Run in Clerkenwell’s parks and streets, and you’ll be better off and healthier, says teacher and runner...
This winter, Danny Bee is starting a new kind of radical walk in the EC1 area By Oliver Bennett The corners of radical Clerkenwell. Photo: Danny Bee There are...
Created in 1843, the same year as Dickens first published ‘A Christmas Carol’, a case can be made for the modern idea of Christmas beginning here...
Monthly Choral Evensong begins at Our Most Holy Redeemer on Exmouth Market this Sunday 4th December By EC1 Echo Daniel Gethin, Fr Christopher Trundle and...
New food initiative Clerkenwell Ready Meals & Food Co- operative will help get food to those who need it this winter By EC1 Echo Photo by blackieshoot on...
An expansion in local street art is not universally loved By Oliver Bennett Generation Equality Mural by Alice Pasquini on Johnson Gardens. Photo: EC1 Echo A...
Chris Walker reflects upon this years’ Clerkenwell Community Photography Competition, now in its second year Pear Tree Court by Zipu Zhu. After the...
Old furniture, racks of clothes and office equipment could be stored in an old car park underneath council flats in Clerkenwell. By Julia Gregory, Local...
London’s finest tooth adornments are being made in Clerkenwell By Oliver Bennett Hussein at Icey Ilko. Photo: Marzo In the jewellery business, the High...
The dearth of places to spend a penny in central London has been noticed By Oliver Bennett Some of Clerkenwell’s decommissioned toilets. Photo: Oliver...
The character of Darby Sabini in Peaky Blinders has revitalised interest in Clerkenwell’s infamous interwar gangster BY OLIVER BENNETT & DAVID HYAMS...
Trees, tourists, jobs and apps: Debbie Akehurst of the Central District Alliance talks about its plans for EC1 by Oliver Bennett Credit: Central District...
The Museum of Walking group has created a dynamic new open-air Clerkenwell theatrical experience – The Walking Cure by Andreas Brandt The Walking Cure is...
A friend to Mahatma Gandhi, the UK’s first Asian mayor was the force behind the Finsbury Health Centre. As a new building is named after him we look into the...
Clerkenwell-based data company Centric Lab is aiming to give citizens as much information about their environment as possible A Clerkenwell tech company has...
Brighton artist moved to paint Clerkenwell’s buildings by Oliver Bennett ‘5:37AM’ by Tony Mills This painting of a building on St John Street EC1 – called...
As the Charles Dickens Museum approaches its centenary, EC1 Echo talks to director Cindy Sughrue about the museum, his life in this area, and how Dickens gave...
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