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You cannot really say you have experienced Dennis Severs' House until you have taken the Dennis Severs' Tour... Tickets available this Thursday and at the weekend.

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Dennis Severs' House

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1 year

Simon's Pettet's fireplace of delft tiles from 1985, each with a sly portrait of a Spitalfields resident, is his subtle masterpiece. MAKING HISTORY: THE CERAMIC WORK OF SIMON PETTET 4th May – 4th June Our new exhibition of Simon Pettet’s ceramics opens next week.

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2 years

At Dennis Severs House, we are are in rapture to the colour pink

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2 years

Dust motes dancing in the autumn sunlight at Dennis Severs' House

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2 years

This house is the only one that is as it was in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is not tidied up, beds are left unmade — the whole house is frozen, inhabited by the sounds of the past...

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11 months

Admire Mr Jervis’ punchbowl - ‘punch’ is the Hindu word for five which is why there are always five ingredients. Oddly enough, when someone punches you in the mouth it also has five ingredients.

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5 months

The paper chains are up!

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6 months

Welcome one and welcome all, Welcome be ye that are here, Welcome all and make good cheer, Welcome Yule.

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1 year

In the boudoir, we enter a powerfully feminine space where fresh, soft colours prevail. The room is as warm as toast. The ladies are halfway down the stairs, but their chairs are still warm and their tea is still steaming in their cups...

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1 year

Simon Pettet's delft tile of Her Majesty the Cat, known as MADGE' watching 'Come Dancing.' MAKING HISTORY: THE CERAMIC WORK OF SIMON PETTET 4th May – 4th June Our exhibition of Simon Pettet’s ceramics at Dennis Severs’ House opens next week.

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11 months

When Isaac Jervis bought this house, he employed Rebecca Philpot as his cook. She has red hair, blue eyes and a voice that can be heard all over Spitalfields. Her hobbies are watching executions at Tyburn, cock-fighting and her personal motto is “Never mind your own business.”

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1 year

Mid-afternoon in the week before Christmas, when Mrs Jervis her friend and neighbour Mrs Stilwell enjoy an intimate tête-à-tête, the modest tea table is embellished with a few choice delicacies according with the season.

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1 year

Dennis Severs toasts his toes beside the range while enjoying the smell of freshly baked bread in a much less furnished kitchen back in the eighties.

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1 year

On the shortest day of the year, as we arrive at midwinter, the old house waits. Tonight, Wednesday 21st December, at forty-seven minutes past nine we pass the solstice taking us back towards shorter nights and longer days...

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5 months

As we reflect upon a hugely successful year at Dennis Severs’ House, we would like to thank all our donors, supporters and friends who contributed to the repair of our 300 year old chimneys, thus enabling us to welcome guests with open fires this Christmas.

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1 year

We are going to see the rooms just as they left them. Sometimes we will hear them, sometimes we will smell them and we will see the things they left behind. But in all of our chasing we will probably never quite manage to catch up with them…

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1 year

Early on Christmas morning, William & Clarence Jervis wake, put on their slippers and climb down the long staircase in their nightshirts to the parlour where their Aunt Isabel has already lit the fire.

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2 years

Recently discovered photograph of the Dickens Attic taken in the eighties by Dan Cruickshank

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Dennis Severs' House

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6 months

Once again the spirit of Christmas comes abundantly to life at Dennis Severs’ House. Until January 7th the house is extravagantly dressed in festive finery to evoke the magic and mystery of the season.

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2 years

I invite you to play a game. I suggest you are not here to see a house, not here to see pictures, porcelain or furniture. I propose you are here to feel a house. This calls on a different part of you to appreciate it.

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5 months

The table is set for Isaac’s Jervis’ Twelfth Night feast

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1 year

For the first time and for the duration of the exhibition only, visitors are allowed to take photographs at Dennis Severs' House MAKING HISTORY: THE CERAMIC WORK OF SIMON PETTET Until 4th June

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2 years

Our garlands are up to welcome guests for the festive season

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Dennis Severs' House

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3 years

The Spitalfields Trust is pleased to announce that we have been awarded funds from the Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage to help DSH reopen this June after a year of closure due to Covid-19. Huge thanks to the National Lottery Heritage Fund for their support. #HereForCulture

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7 months

Simon Pettet’s blue-and-white delft tiles from the fireplace in the Master Bedroom now available as wrapping paper from our new online shop

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1 year

The gleam of copper, the lustre of salt-glazed earthenware, the sheen of polished wood and the glow of ripe oranges in season, newly-brought from Seville, all in the blue half-light of a January afternoon in London.

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1 year

At dusk on Christmas Eve, Miss Isabel Jervis turns the key in the heavy iron lock, her black cat runs down the hallway to greet her and she enters the cold empty house in Folgate Street. In the back parlour, her tree sits waiting.

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1 year

On Boxing Day, it is Edward and Elizabeth Jervis’ custom to host a social gathering. After a morning of duck shooting at Bethnal Green and a hearty lunch at three, Mrs Jervis prepares the Drawing Room to host the Societies of the Weavers.

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5 months

At dusk on Christmas Eve, the results of Rebecca’s labours in the kitchen are revealed at last for all to admire in a magnificent display upon the dresser in anticipation of the great day itself.

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4 years

20 years ago, on Monday the 27th of December of 1999, Dennis Severs passed away. We remember him today and every day and thank him for the legacy he left us. Via The @guardian :

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3 years

We are proud to be the queerest old house in London #Pridemonth2021 #Pride

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1 year

On World Aids Day, we remembered the 36 million who have died over the past forty years since the first cases were reported, including our own Dennis Severs and Simon Pettet. #WorldAIDSDay2022

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1 year

In 1989, Dennis conceived the notion of installing wooden silhouettes in the windows of the Drawing Room and commissioned Jim Howett to realise his idea. They were intended as reminders for visitors of the Jervis’ presence in the house.

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1 year

Simon Pettet's portrait on a delft tile from 1985 of Raphael Samuel, historian of the East End. MAKING HISTORY: THE CERAMIC WORK OF SIMON PETTET 4th May – 4th June

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6 months

On World Aids Day we remember Dennis Severs and Simon Pettet (pictured), alongside over 40 million others who have died since the first cases were reported in 1981.

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6 months

There is a bustle and a scurry in the house this week, as plans for baking and adornment are made in anticipation of the forthcoming festivities. Book is now open for the Christmas Season.

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1 year

Here we come a-wassailing Among the leaves so green, Here we come a-wand'ring So fair to be seen. Love and joy come to you, And to you your wassail too, And God bless you and send you a Happy New Year And God send you a Happy New Year.

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1 year

Mrs Jervis sent Rebecca out to buy an expensive white sugar loaf in preparation for the forthcoming festive season. She walked down to Wellclose Sq and bought it from one of the German sugar bakers.

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1 year

At Twelfth Night, Isaac Jervis feasts on roasted swan and hosts a gathering of local worthies and master weavers.

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1 year

This is Amy Merrick, the sylph who waved her wand and conjured the magic of the festive season for us. 'So much of the magic of Dennis Severs’ House is in the marriage of flame, shadow and fragrance. Working with these elements to imbue the house with Christmas was a thrill.’

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1 year

In the kitchen, Rebecca presides over a whirlwind of activity as culinary preparations reach fever pitch...

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Dennis Severs' House

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3 years

Dennis Severs’ House A place of atmospheres. Dennis created rooms and vignettes that told a story and the experience of visiting the house often left a lasting impression much like a theatrical event or art installation.

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5 months

Rebecca has been soaking all manner of summer fruits in sugar syrup for months to create a glittering crystalline display for Isaac Jervis’ Twelfth Night feast on Saturday next.

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1 year

At 20 seconds to midnight on New Year’s Eve 1902, the old house holds its breath. Isabel Jervis waits by her fire. Grieving the loss of the dear old queen, Isabel gazes up at Victoria’s portrait and wonders how the future will be without the monarch she has known all her life.

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1 year

Simon Pettet met Dennis outside Heaven nightclub as an 18-yr-old art student in 1983 and moved in with him shortly after. He died HIV positive at the age of 28 in 1993, yet he produced ceramics which survive as a reminder of his achievement in the place where he lived and worked.

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5 months

An eminent bookbinder in Spitalfields has contrived these unique hand-tooled decorations exclusively for Dennis Severs' House by punching 23.5 karat English gold leaf onto French calf leather with 18th and 19th century patterns.

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3 years

‘A Christmas Carol’ by Dan Cruickshank and Marenka Gabeler. We’ll be releasing one part each day until Christmas. Part 1: Welcome to Dennis Severs’ House.

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2 years

The kitchen dresser groans with a profusion of jellies, puddings and pies.

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5 years

It breaks our heart to see our neighbours go 💔

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5 years

The Water Poet in Folgate Street closes thanks to British Land's redevelopment of Norton Folgate for a hideous corporate plaza!

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2 years

Delft tile at Dennis' Severs House made by Simon Pettet in the eighties

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9 months

Dust motes dancing up and down the staircase in the August sunlight as nimble and ethereal as fine ladies at a Society ball...

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5 months

Each year, in the week before Christmas, Elizabeth Jervis hosts a select gathering of female gentlefolk. It is salon to enjoy cultivated conversation and a repast at noon. On the menu this week is game pie with cranberries and steamed plum pudding served with glacé cherries.

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1 year

Hannah Glasse was the first to record the use of jelly in ‘The Art of Cookery’, published in 1747. In the eighteenth century, gelatin from calf's feet, isinglass and hartshorn was coloured blue with violet juice, yellow with saffron, red with cochineal and green with spinach.

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5 months

On Christmas Morning, Miss Isabel Jervis parlour sits in alone in her parlour awaiting the arrival from Braintree of her brother James’ two little boys, William and Clarence, her nephews.

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3 years

A Spitalfields Christmas at Dennis Severs’ House. 1/9

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2 years

Pink was recognised in Homer's Odyssey in 800 BC. The word was coined in the 14th c for the ruffled edges of carnations and the naming of the colour derives from this. The zenith of the colour pink was the 18th c when it became fashionable, championed by Madame de Pompadour.

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2 years

Here, they are born, they sleep and they die. This is our own past and no matter how grand any of us think we are, from this we come. The houses of the rich are the exception, but this is the reality of history. You are home.

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2 years

Delft tile by Simon Pettet On Maundy Thursday, we send Easter Greetings to you from us all at Dennis Severs' House

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1 year

Admire Mr Jervis’ punchbowl - ‘punch’ is the Hindu word for five which is why there are always five ingredients. Oddly enough, when someone punches you in the mouth it also has five ingredients…

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2 years

When Queen Victoria died, the Lord Chamberlain knew what to do. As long as there were remnants of a silk industry in Spitalfields where the fabric of her wedding dress was made, the Queen wished that the black crepe for her funeral pall was woven there too. And it was.

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1 year

Late in the evening, in the days between Christmas and New Year, Rebecca nods off in the warmth of the kitchen range. She is always the last to sleep and the first to wake.

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3 years

Mrs Jervis' dress fabric was the work of Anna Maria Garthwaite, the pre-eminent silk designer of the eighteenth century (photo by @de_jasay )

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5 years

#18 FolgateStreet then and now. From the late 70s to this day. Can you spot the difference? 😉

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1 year

We are overjoyed to announce that our exhibition MAKING HISTORY: THE CERAMIC WORK OF SIMON PETTET and our new tour SIMON’S STORY will return in September and run through October to coincide with @FriezeArtFair

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11 months

Our lady’s dressing table almost bids us kneel as if before a shrine....

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7 months

Our exhibition MAKING HISTORY: THE CERAMIC WORK OF SIMON PETTET ends next Sunday, curated by Rupert Thomas (formerly editor of @theworldofinteriors ). Here are Simon’s delft tiles from the fireplace in the master bedroom portraying Spitalfields residents of the 80s

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2 years

I suggest you are not here to see a house, not here to see pictures, porcelain or furniture. I propose you are here to feel a house. This calls on a different part of you to appreciate it. We are going on a journey together into the past, as if it were a foreign country...

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2 years

Recently discovered photograph by Dan Cruickshank showing the Dining Room in the eighties.

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2 years

On World Aids Day, we remembered the 36 million who have died over the past forty years since the first cases were reported, including our own Dennis Severs and Simon Pettet.

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11 months

Lift your eyes above the chimneypiece to William Hogarth’s ‘A Midnight Modern Conversation.’ Everything in it is in this room. The punchbowl and glasses, the clay pipes and candlesticks....

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1 year

After supper, the ladies withdraw and start preparing the tea and coffee for the gentlemen to join them. But Mr Jervis and the other the gentlemen do not want to see that, in the days before Christmas they stay put, carousing until late into the night....

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1 year

Simon Pettet's self portrait in 1985, making delft tiles. In 1984 at 19 years old, Pettet was diagnosed HIV+ as one of the earliest cases in this country. The works he created in the 10 years before his death in 1993, aged 28, form our exhibition. MAKING HISTORY: May 4th-June 4th

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8 months

If you seek the spirit of Christmas you will find it in abundance at Dennis Severs’ House. When the summer draws to its close, early morning mist drifts across the cobbles in Spitalfields and cobwebs hang in the hedges, we turn our thoughts to the distant prospect of Yuletide.

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1 year

Here society ends and intimacy begins. Curtains cascade from the ceiling down over the windows. Our lady’s dressing table almost bids us kneel as if before a shrine. At the centre of the room stands the grandest upholstered four-poster bed imaginable, hung with braided damask.

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7 months

Christmas is coming, The goose is getting fat. Please put a penny in the old man’s hat. If you haven’t got a penny, A ha’penny will do. If you haven’t got a ha’penny, God bless you! Book is open for the Christmas Season - decorations go up on 23rd Nov & stay up 'til 12th Night!

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1 year

We are proud to be the queerest old house in London #pridemonth MAKING HISTORY: THE CERAMIC WORK OF SIMON PETTET until 4th June

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2 years

This house is the only one that is as it was in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is not tidied up, beds are left unmade — the whole house is frozen, inhabited by the sounds of the past — the sounds of the Jervis family who occupy this house.

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5 months

We have been working through the night in Spitalfields to get all our Christmas Puddings ready to send out and for those who are collecting them in person from Fournier Street. Dennis Severs’ House x Populations Bakery

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3 years

Dan Cruickshank's photograph of the kitchen from the eighties reveals how the house evolved, accreting more detail over time, as Dennis Severs collected more..

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1 year

Dennis loved paper chains...

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3 years

Happy New Year 2021 from Dennis Severs’ House.

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9 years

Photographer Vivienne Gucwa @travelinglens visited the house yesterday http://t.co/Jd8ZkX2AgO http://t.co/rE6vrk97wG

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1 year

At Dennis Severs' House, we believe 'sconce' comes from the Old French 'esconse,' meaning 'lantern or hiding place,' with the Latin root 'abscondere, meaning 'to hide.'

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1 year

In 1984, at 19 years old, Simon Pettet was diagnosed HIV+ as one of the earliest cases in this country. The work Simon created for Dennis Severs' House in the 10 years before his death in 1993, aged just 28, is being exhibited at the house from 4 May – 4 June

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5 years

Unfortunately after nearly 20 years, our lovely neighbour pub @thewaterpoet will be closing its doors on Friday the 29 of March. This is why we want to invite you to drop by to show some love and support. We wish them the very best for the future! Photo via @thegentleauthor

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1 year

This Christmas, Amy Merrick has brought the forest inside Dennis Severs’ House and now we are enfolded all in a green fable...

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3 years

This previously unseen joint portrait of Dennis Severs and Simon Pettet was taken by Dan Cruickshank and only rediscovered recently while archiving old transparencies

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2 years

Do you allow your cat on the table? This previously unseen photograph by Dan Cruickshank from the eighties is evidence that Dennis Severs did.

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3 years

Mrs Jervis wore no underwear, just a shift of fine linen, then silk stockings and garters to hold them up. Her dress came in three pieces, the skirt and then the stomacher followed by the bodice. Pins and a few discreet stitches held it together where necessary.

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3 years

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3 years

In the attic of Dennis Severs’ House lies a relic of the AIDS epidemic that ravaged a generation of bright hopes, including Simon Pettet. Simon lived with Dennis and painted his bicycle yellow in 1987 as an homage to Keith Haring. Simon died in 1993 just before his 28th birthday.

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1 year

We are proud to be part of the #SaveBrickLane coalition fighting to stop the Truman Brewery building a shopping mall with corporate offices on top. Please support our crowdfunder. We need to raise £10,000 to challenge this in the High Court

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4 years

A quiet November afternoon at Dennis Severs’ House.

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2 years

For behind the wooden wainscots of all the old houses, there are little mouse staircases and secret trap-doors, and the mice run from house to house through those long narrow passages. they can run all over the town without going into the streets...

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2 years

We are open for SILENT NIGHT this Friday and every Friday 5-9pm. "Lift your eyes above the chimneypiece to William Hogarth’s ‘A Midnight Modern Conversation.’ Everything in it is in this room..."

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2 years

The main meal is at three, then they withdraw to the drawing room - hence the name - where Mrs Jervis brews tea. Then she separates the family from the apprentices — this is a household of fifteen — to a dressing room where they have a little supper then prayers before bed.

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4 years

For the last year and a half our incredibly talented friend @RebeccaLW71 has been drawing each of the main rooms of 18 Folgate Street. Take a look and read all about this project on the @thegentleauthor :

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3 years

Admire Mr Jervis’ punchbowl - ‘punch’ is the Hindu word for five which is why there are always five ingredients. Oddly enough, when someone punches you in the mouth it also has five ingredients. (Photo by René Stoeltie)

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3 years

If he had lived beyond 1999, Dennis Severs would have been seventy-three years old on 16th November. Happy Birthday Dennis!

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1 year

This tulipiere in the authentic delft style was created by Simon Pettet who lived with Dennis Severs in the 1980s. Between 4th May to 4th June, Simon’s works will be displayed throughout our unique historic interiors to enhance the magical atmosphere of 18 Folgate Street.

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2 years

Christmas is coming, The goose is getting fat, Please put a penny in the old man's hat. If you haven't got a penny A ha'penny will do. If you haven't got a ha'penny, God bless you!

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