Roman Road LDN

This is a 200-year old native black poplar, one of the few remaining trees of its kind in the UK. This tree’s rarity, age and sentimental value to the local community led a council official to state that it is easily ‘the most important veteran tree in Tower Hamlets’.

Regent’s Canal is an ever-present part of our lives. We jog beside it, we walk over it to get to Bethnal Green. We live in flats overlooking it and perhaps even live on it. But over its 200-year existence, the canal has also quietly helped shape the very area we live in, from its past lives first as the ‘M25’ of in the Industrial Revolution, to its last hurrah in the war efforts.

Passed down from father to son since 1919, Randolfi’s has been serving cuppas and cakes to regulars for over a

Trevor Culling is the neighbourhood’s silent and often invisible friend, delivering milk to door steps around Roman Road when the

Stephie Devred, a local photographer based in Hackney Wick, took to Roman Road to capture life on the high street