Category: Victorian & Edwardian
A favourite: Anita’s Vintage Fashion, Accessories & Textile Fair
Anita’s Vintage Fashion, Accessories & Textiles Fai is a perfect opportunity for anyone looking for textiles and vintage fashion from the 1800′s to the Eighties such as Sixties chiffon, Fifties dresses in fabulous prints as well as Victorian white cottons and Thirties lace and beading. One of London’s best vintage fairs with an amazing selection of very friendly and knowledgeable [...]
A great Saturday market: Spitalfields Affordable Vintage Fair
Spitalfields Market opened its gates on a Saturday for the first time in 200 years this year, launching a regular monthly vintage fair there. Spitalfields Affordable Vintage Fair covers everything from Sixties shifts to vintage whisks to taxidermy – a veritable vintage playground featuring fashion, furniture, homewares, haberdashery, the handmade, menswear, reworked (and everything inbetween). Free [...]
Review – The Railway Children at Waterloo Station Theatre
Waterloo Station Theatre’s adaptation of Edith Nesbit’s book The Railway Children has been an immediate success, reviving the disused Eurostar terminal at Waterloo. Rebecca McWattie reviews. Nesbit’s book follows Bobby, Phyllis and Peter, three middle-class Edwardian children caught between childhood and the harsh realities of the adult world. One night, their father, who works for [...]
Marvel in its Edwardian splendour: Regency Cafe
Decked out in full Edwardian decor, including original tiles, the Regency Cafe is an absolute delight of a cafe and greasy spoon. Not surprisingly it’s been featured in plenty of films, including Layer Cake. The food – think Full English, burger and chips or bacon rolls – is perfect to kickstart your day or get over the [...]
Things to do around London: tracing Sherlock Holmes
The famous sleuth might only be a fictional character yet London without Sherlock seems unimaginable. Rebecca McWattie explores all things Sherlock in the capital. Since Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet in 1887 he quickly became one of the most well loved fictional characters in English literature. Arthur Conan Doyle [...]
New: Vintage Scent Sessions – fragrant forays into the world of vintage perfume
Hosted by olfactress Odette Toilette – the founder of London’s popular Scratch+Sniff events – the Vintage Scent Sessions are Saturday afternoon gatherings for fragrance fans and the intrigued alike. These unique bimonthly events will take place at the downstairs Scent Salon in Les Senteurs new shop in Marylebone. Each time, Odette will lead guests on [...]
