Pearl Binder In Whitechapel

Pearl Binder Lou Taylor, youngest daughter of the artist and writer Pearl Binder, is giving a talk about the extraordinary life and work of this pioneering artist, writer and journalist at this year’s Bloomsbury Jamboree at the Art Workers’ Guild. Click here to book for Lou Taylor’s lecture at 2pm on Saturday 14th November Bill the Ostler Pearl Binder came to Whitechapel in 1925 and lived in a hayloft in Spread Eagle Yard while studying at the Central School of Art. Binder was a life-long socialist, whose political beliefs were informed by her formative experiences in the East End. Below you can read excerpts from her pen portrait of Bill the Ostler who, with his wife Emmie, was Pearl Binder’s neighbour in Spread Eagle Yard. It was originally included in her book Odd Jobs published in 1935. This is a plain story, revealing the effects of the shift from horsepower to the petrol engine upon the life of a modest couple with little control over their destinies. A tale of the shifting…

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