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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.
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Fiesta Cafe also noteworthy for being the most spacious cafe on the Roman, with its large windows adding to the sense of openness. One can imagine sitting by those windows looking onto the market, people watching over a coffee and a full English.
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If we can retain our appreciation of local businesses out of goodwill and loyalty, and a newfound appreciation of our high street as an important part of our community, then we can hold on to hope.
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Powlesland was a community champion extraordinaire, who won an MBE for her services to the black and ethnic minority communities of East London, will be remembered by many for her legacy of community service, including her decades of work as a headteacher.
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You would be forgiven for thinking Hannah Brown’s natural landscape paintings – with their quiet lakes and light-dappled foliage – are placed somewhere in the British countryside.
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‘After earning rave reviews by hard-to-impress critics in the Telegraph and the Nudge – they earned their place on the GQ shortlist, alongside other internationally renowned food establishments like Sketch and Connaught Bar. And then, Covid-19 hit.’
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‘We don’t actually know how many people are unpaid carers, because they don’t see themselves as carers. To them, it’s just looking after a loved one. But with the right support, we can be warriors.’
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‘I just wanted to thank people,’ says Liversidge. ‘ All the key workers are just doing their everyday jobs, that they do in their normal life. But at same time they are taking these huge risks to their lives by doing just that.’
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‘One of our receptionists said “I’m really scared”, but we just have to put on our equipment and continue to treat our community members. I think that frontline workers at the NHS do it, so we can do it too and do our part.’
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Nineteenth century social reformer Charles Booth, drew a famous ‘poverty map’ measuring how deprived or well-off households were on a
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Roman Road is home to many family-run businesses, whose trades have been handed carefully down through the generations. As a
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Rohan is eleven years old and plays the clarinet. ‘I like that there’s different age groups, and we all play together, and hang out afterwards. I miss my friends, and I can’t wait to see them in real life when all this is over. But I’m glad we haven’t stopped our lessons, and we’re still seeing each other.’
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