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Author: April Kosky

Outside seating at The Crown pub in Bow
Eating & drinking Local Shopping 

Best local pubs

February 3, 2020September 4, 2020 April Kosky 0 Comments Reviews

From traditional East End boozers to trendy gastro pubs, Roman Road and the surrounding areas offer a pub to suit

Tanya Cracknell aka The Grime Violinist
Photograph by Vicky Chan
Bow Grime music Culture Local News 

The Grime Violinist – a one of a kind artist reimagining a genre

October 4, 2019October 4, 2019 April Kosky 0 Comments Features

Meet Tanya Cracknell, AKA The Grime Violinist, the classically-trained musician best known for her violin covers of grime tracks.  Cracknell

Interiors of a Bow Quarter apartment, photography by Anton Rodriguez.
Culture Life and living Local 

Photographer Anton Rodriguez’s captures stunning interiors of Bow Quarter apartments [photoessay]

September 14, 2018November 29, 2022 April Kosky 2 Comments Photoessays

Photographer Anton Rodriguez, the genius behind the Residents: Inside the Barbican project, takes a look at the interior of some of

Cranbrook Estate
Culture History & nostalgia Local 

The history of the Cranbrook Estate, from slums to utopian post-war housing

September 12, 2018January 14, 2022 April Kosky 6 Comments Features

The Cranbrook Estate in Bethnal Green is one of the most important examples of post-war housing design in the area.

Culture Local News Roman Road Market 

Dawud Marsh looks at Roman Road then and now [photoessay]

September 3, 2018February 25, 2022 April Kosky 2 Comments Photoessays

These ‘then and now’ photographs of Roman Road Market, recreating archive images from the 1960s to the 1990s, reveal how

David Granick East End in Colour Cover
Art and artists Local News 

David Granick shows us the East End in Colour

September 2, 2018January 23, 2019 April Kosky 0 Comments Reviews

The photobook The East End in Colour is a collection of beautiful photographs of the old East End spanning the

Cocktails at Chiringuito
Eating & drinking Local Local economy News 

Chiringuito Spanish beach-bar-style cafe opens in Museum Gardens

August 1, 2018March 25, 2023 April Kosky 0 Comments High street, News

Spanish beach-bar-style cafe Chiringuito opened yesterday in Bethnal Green’s Museum Gardens. Founder and Director, Alex Dehayen, first had the idea

Brian Baker tribute on Roman Road
Culture Local News Roman Road Market 

Roman Road Market traders pay tribute to Brian Baker

July 31, 2018May 23, 2019 April Kosky 1 Comment News

Roman Road market traders paid tributes to wheelwright Brian Baker who passed away on 25th July. On Saturday a traditional

Chefs behind the counter of Maybin on Roman Road, East London
Eating & drinking Local 

Maybin’s offering classic fry ups alongside Balinese smoothie bowls

July 30, 2018January 13, 2022 April Kosky 0 Comments Features

Although it opened only last year, Maybin’s has fast become one of Roman Road’s go-to cafes for East End locals

Wiley and Dizze, two grime artists, on a wall in front of three blocks of flats in East London, black and white photography
Bow Grime music Culture Local News 

Dan Hancox reveals the true story of grime

July 27, 2018January 18, 2019 April Kosky 0 Comments Reviews

Dan Hancox, author of Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime, tells the rise of a hyper-local East London sound

Room with two single beds in the East London Hotel
Local Local economy News Shopping 

The East London Hotel to open this Autumn

July 26, 2018March 25, 2023 April Kosky 0 Comments High street, News

A brand new hotel is coming to our East End this autumn. The East London Hotel opens in October, and

Archive image of Roman Road Market, East London, from 1990s
Culture Local News Roman Road Market 

Roman Road Market in the 1990s [photoessay]

July 24, 2018February 25, 2022 April Kosky 0 Comments Photoessays

We found a bunch of the best Roman Road Market 1990s flashback images for you to enjoy. Scroll through and

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