Cheryl Baker: the Eurovision star from Roman Road
From a Roman Road council estate to the international stage, Bucks Fizz singer Cheryl Baker remembers her East End community
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From a Roman Road council estate to the international stage, Bucks Fizz singer Cheryl Baker remembers her East End community
How the residents of Henderson’s Chisenhale Road home are continuing the photographer’s legacy on the East End streets he documented
How Margaret Barnsdall-Stone went from working in an East End cake factory to mixing with Royalty, and the Cockney culture
While Sylvia Pankhurst’s The Mother’s Arms no longer exists, its legacy as a protective haven for women and children remains
Nowadays, we all have an idea of the meaning of the word Cockney, but we’ve discovered that the history of
From the Burdett-Coutts Drinking Fountain to the nearby Burdett Road, the presence of Baroness Burdett-Coutts is clear to see throughout our area.
Just off of bustling Mile End road lies one of London’s finest Georgian squares: Tredegar Square. You may walk through
Victoria Park has been voted the nation’s favourite park in the Green Flag People’s Choice Awards for nine consecutive years.
Hidden in the backstreets of Bow, our area is home to a surprising amount of cemeteries including the oldest Jewish
Bengali author Shabna Begum speaks about her family’s wrongful eviction and how the squatters movement took up vigilante action. Take
Behind an anonymous brick wall in Alderney Road off of Mile End Road lies the oldest Ashkenazi cemetery in the U.K. Founded in 1696 and closed in 1852, the cemetery marks the establishment of the Ashkenazi community, now the largest Jewish ethnic group in the U.K.
How our borough is becoming a model for grassroots environmental change, with organisations and charities proving the cost-of-living crisis and