Allen Staines: Bow Garage, the No 8 Bus and the new Routemaster
We find out what happens inside Bow Garage and talk to Allen Staines about how life as a number 8
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Culture
Discover arts, culture and heritage
In our Cultural Heritage section we look at what makes our neighbourhood unique. We explore the arts, culture and heritage that have formed our identity, including Bow grime music, the East London Suffragettes and the Cockney heritage.
David Hoffman Roman Road Cafe Crawl for Photomonth
The Cafe Crawl (part of Photomonth) on Roman Road is showing rarely seen photos from renown local photojournalist David Hoffman.
Read moreNorman Grove Street Party celebrates Suffragettes
Norman Grove’s annual street party celebrated its links with Sylvia Pankhurst’s Suffragettes with a Suffragette-themed day of festivities. Norman Grove,
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Georgia Patsouraki Humans of Roman Road exhibition [photoessay]
Photographer Georgia Patsouraki specialises in documenting traditions and in her latest exhibitions, Humans of Roman Road, she turns her attention to
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Home birth pioneer Claire Davis on breastfeeding and living in a Pankhurst house
The East End has a proud history of strong women working for women’s rights, and it seems it still attracts pioneering women. We
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Harry da Costa: fighting for street trader rights on Roman Road Market
We meet Harry da Costa, one of Roman Road Market’s most well known characters, who first started trading at the age of
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Sarah Ainslie Pooch Portraits for Roman Road Festival 2014 [Photoessay]
Gina’s Closet teamed up with local photographer Sarah Ainslie to create a pavement shoot for dogs and their owners on Roman
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East London Suffragettes centenary festival
‘Sylvia Pankhurst was a really incredible woman, and I wanted to see her story told,’ says Sarah Jackson, so she
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In conversation with Gary Arber of Arber & Co, the Suffragettes’ Printers
The oldest printers in the East End, Arbers & Co on Roman Road, printed for the East London Suffragettes over
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Stuart Pearson Wright interview
We talk to former Roman Road resident, the portrait painter Stuart Pearson Wright, who was inspired by The Roman’s everyday
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East London Group artists in Bow who painted the real East End during the inter-war years
How John Cooper and the advent of ‘evening classes’ spawned the East London Group of artists who painted the real
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East London Group: From Bow to Biennale book review
David Buckman’s interest in twentieth century art was awakened when, as a freelance journalist, he read a feature about the
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