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Summertime in Victoria Park, East London

Victoria Park: the people’s park of East London

June 21, 2019June 24, 2019 Anna Lezard 1031 Views 2 Comments Features min read

Victoria Park has been voted the nation’s favourite park two years in a row, and with good reason. It has

A trio box in 9Round kickboxing studio in Bow

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9Round brings boxing back to Bow – with a kick

June 21, 2019June 21, 2019 Anna Lezard 541 Views 0 Comments Features, Sponsored min read

9Round, the kickboxing fitness club with studios around the world, has opened on Roman Road. The studio offers Bow locals

A scene during The Sweet Science of Boxing at Wilton's Music Hall

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Review: ‘The Sweet Science of Bruising’ at Wilton’s Music Hall

June 18, 2019June 19, 2019 Tabitha Potts 652 Views 0 Comments Reviews min read

This entertaining and moving play set in Wilton’s Music Hall brings together four very different women to tell the story of Victorian lady boxers.

Interior of East London Liquor Company restaurant at Bow Wharf

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East London Liquor Company restaurant review – sumptuous Italian bites in the heart of a distillery

June 18, 2019June 25, 2019 Caitlin Evans 1114 Views 0 Comments Reviews min read

East London Liquor Company is a Bow-based independent distillery well known for producing a range of spirits. However, perhaps the lesser known side of this business is their restaurant nestled between Mile End and Victoria Park, a two-minute walk from Roman Road.

Margie Keefe aka the Grime Gran at her home in Bethnal Green

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Portrait: Margie Keefe, nan to the grime scene

June 17, 2019June 17, 2019 Frederick O'Brien 6660 Views 0 Comments Features min read

Margie Keefe, 80, likes a bit of hustle and bustle, which is just as well given she’s the undisputed nan

Exterior of Genesis Cinema on the final Fragments Festival night

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Curtain falls on inaugural Fragments Festival at Genesis Cinema

June 16, 2019June 17, 2019 Frederick O'Brien 1022 Views 0 Comments News min read

Genesis Cinema celebrated the final night of its first ever Fragments Festival on Saturday. Organised in six months, the festival

Keys hanging on wall at Thompsons hardware store on Roman Road

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The secret services of Roman Road

June 15, 2019June 17, 2019 Frederick O'Brien 924 Views 0 Comments Guides min read

Roman Road is rightly renowned for its market, but let us never forget that it’s also packed full of fabulous

Old sign of Henry Finkelstein on Roman Road

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Sign of the times: the mystery of Henry Finkelstein

June 12, 2019June 25, 2019 Frederick O'Brien 15835 Views 1 Comment Features min read

Two weeks ago a little piece of Roman Road went back in time. The shop front of No. 430, at

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Bow filmmaker Aaron Christian on the privileged world of internships

June 9, 2019June 11, 2019 Frederick O'Brien 1406 Views 0 Comments Features min read

Bow-based filmmaker Aaron Christian, 34, is a born and bred East Londoner. This week, Genesis Cinema will debut his latest

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Channeling hope: how East End canals are providing respite from city life

June 7, 2019June 9, 2019 Lizzy Mace 892 Views 0 Comments Opinion min read

Environmental correspondent Lizzy has always been passionate about the environment. Since 2016 she has been reducing her non-recyclable waste and

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