Hooked on urban fishing: ‘It’s about being out there, connecting with nature and appreciating life.’
London has long been home to a fishing tradition of its own. Here, local photographers Tom Hains and Ash Gardner capture
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Victoria Park’s roller-skating revival – photoessay
Roller-skating has brought old and young, beginner and pro skaters together to dance their troubles away in tough times. And
Ken Greenway on how to ‘see nature, enjoy it and find comfort in it’
Manager of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park for 19 years, Ken Greenway, shares his secret on how to make space for
Fear Naut: a magazine for women who barge
Our area has had a long history of female writers and publishers, from the Worker’s Dreadnought of 1914-1924 through to Mary Wollstonecraft who was born down the road in Spitalfields.
Sporting Bengal: the FC tackling racism in football
Sporting Bengal United F.C play their football in Mile End Stadium, after being established in 1996 to ‘challenge the underrepresentation of Asians in football’. Team captain Rokib Choudhury and their manager Imrul Gazi speak out about what needs to be done to tackle racism in the game.
At least the weather’s good: a lockdown poem from Iftikhar Latif
Ifti Latif is a local poet, who wrote a poem inspired by lockdown last summer. As the winter months take hold and people look for some positivity in the current climate, he has chosen to share his work which he hopes will ‘be something nice to think about, especially as we enter January’.
Local women breaking the taboo around menopause
‘My mother didn’t ever speak to me about it periods and found the whole subject matter of periods, and sex or anything like that very, very difficult to talk about. My first period was a very lonely sort of experience’.
The surprisingly cosy comforts of boat life on the Regent’s Canal
Seeing a houseboat from the inside, being able to jump on board to feel the gentle, floating sway, and to be able to move your house whenever you want (quite literally) are things that many of us dream of.
Man behind infectious ‘allotment’ music video on the joys of owning an allotment
Baxter often works the allotment with his younger son, often enjoying Sunday lunch there with the rest of his family. ‘It’s really a rewarding activity for kids I think, because you get to look after and nurture something, and see it grow.’
Photographer Rehan Jamil on the changing faces of the East End
We talk to social photographer and East End native, Rehan Jamil, about his latest project Full English, about what it means to British and Muslim, and the importance of documenting the changing faces of East London.
Roman Road’s Best and Brightest: Christmas lights [Photo-essay]
One of our favourite things about Roman Road is how everyone – cafes, shops and houses alike – gets into
Why the local milk round is enjoying a revival [photoessay]
Trevor Culling is the neighbourhood’s silent and often invisible friend, delivering milk to door steps around Roman Road when the