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Cultural heritage

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.

Terri with two colleagues from masterchef on either side. The pink masterchef logo is in the background.
Local Voices 

From Mile End to Masterchef: a pastry chef’s fight for equality

January 27, 2023January 30, 2023 George Hayes 0 Comments Features

Terri Mercieca on nana’s home cooking, comfort eating, and making the culinary world a better place for the LGBT+ community.

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A still from Kat Anderson's film which won the East London Art Prize 2023.
Art and artists Cultural heritage Local 

Winner of £15,000 East London Art Prize announced at Bow Arts’ shortlist exhibition

January 23, 2023January 30, 2023 Polly Nash 0 Comments News

Out of more than 650 submissions, Kat Anderson’s film installation drawing on the racism of public health and police institutions

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Alex Scott sports presenter holding microphone.
Cockney Cultural heritage Local 

Modern Cockneys: the new generation of famous Cockney people true to the East End’s sparky spirit

January 23, 2023January 27, 2023 Polly Nash 0 Comments Features

Some say that Cockneys are a dying breed but a new generation of modern Cockneys is showing that the spirit

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Cultural heritage Life and living Local 

Christine Joyce Lewis: Bow Headteacher awarded MBE

January 16, 2023January 18, 2023 Jasdev Bhakar 0 Comments News

Christine Joyce Lewis, the former headteacher of Children’s House Nursery School in Bow, has been awarded an MBE for services

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Bill Thornton, retired fishmonger at Billingsgate fish market. Photograph by Pat Wong.
Cultural heritage Life and living Local 

Tower Hamlets residents celebrated in the 2023 New Year’s Honours list

January 13, 2023January 19, 2023 Polly Nash 0 Comments News

Tackling hunger in Tower Hamlets, delivering humanitarian assistance in Ukraine and furthering early years special education are just some of

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Screen print of shops and houses on Mile End Road.
Art and artists Cultural heritage Local 

Artist Ali Smith: Printing East London’s urban landscape

January 4, 2023January 19, 2023 Polly Nash 2 Comments Features, Photoessays

Canal boats, cranes and graffiti: Everyday East End scenes through a local printmaker’s eyes.  Most people walking down Mile End

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A drawing of Bow Church dating back to the Edwardian era.
Cultural heritage Heritage Local 

Blitzed and still standing: The beauty and endurance of the East End epitomised by Bow Church

December 21, 2022December 22, 2022 George Hayes 0 Comments Features

Bow Church has been blitzed, its tower hit by storms and its bells destroyed, so how does it still stand

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Reverend Alan Green on the steps of St John's Church, Bethnal Green.
Cultural heritage Life and living Local 

Reverend Alan Green leaves St. John on Bethnal Green church after 24 years

December 15, 2022December 22, 2022 Polly Nash 0 Comments News

Reverend Green’s Christmas Day sermon will be the last he gives to the congregation he has served for nearly a

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Cuddling the dog - a window into canal boats on Regent's Canal, by photographer Rose Palmer
Cultural heritage Life and living Local 

Companionship on camera: the beauty of everyday interactions in the East End [photoessay]

December 10, 2022December 13, 2022 George Hayes 0 Comments Photoessays

Moments of intimacy between East Enders are captured in these warm everyday interactions. Our everyday lives are populated by intimate

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An image of Raymond Randolfi smiling to the camera with the Randolfi sign on the wall at Randolfi's, Roman Road, Bow, East London
Cultural heritage Heritage Local 

Randolfi’s: Time stands still at Roman Road’s longest serving café

November 28, 2022December 13, 2022 Victoria Miller 0 Comments Features

Serving Roman Road’s market stall holders, shoppers, and residents for 110 years with tea, cake, and its famed thick deli-cut

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GKelly pie and mash shopfront, Roman Road
Cockney Cultural heritage Local 

Why Hammers’ Emerson Palmieri is putting his name to Cockney pie n’ mash

November 25, 2022December 13, 2022 Polly Nash 0 Comments News

What goes together better than West Ham & Pie and Mash? Footballer Emerson Palmieri visits G Kelly on the Roman

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Kirk Whitelock standing outside a boxing ring in Aberfeldy Boxing Club in Poplar, East London
Cultural heritage Life and living Local 

Aberfeldy Boxing Club in final three for prestigious London sports award

November 25, 2022December 13, 2022 Victoria Miller 0 Comments News

The award celebrates unsung heroes who are bringing sport to under-represented groups and improving lives through physical activity.  East End’s

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