Culture Archives — Roman Road LDN

The number 8 bus in rainbow colours, to support pride month 2015

The number 8 bus with a rainbow makeover, in celebration of pride month 2015.

Fifty years of Pride in Tower Hamlets: How have we changed as a society?

June 26, 2022June 24, 2022 Panayiota Demosthenous 58 Views 9 min read

We celebrate the fifty year anniversary of Pride by looking back at how the LGBT+ movement changed Tower Hamlets’ queer

A street party scene with a blue Land Rover next to The Lord Tredegar pub, Mile End, East London

Photo courtesy of Gary Taylor.

We show the world what East End street parties should look like [photo essay]

June 13, 2022June 15, 2022 Panayiota Demosthenous 233 Views 3 min read

Take a look at last weekend’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations around the Roman, full of cake, bunting, music, drinks and smiles.

Tufayel Ahmed holding a copy of his new book, This Way Out.

‘This Way Out’: East End author Tufayel Ahmed on growing up gay in the Bengali community

June 8, 2022June 10, 2022 Victoria Miller 126 Views 7 min read

Bengali author Tufayel Ahmed speaks about the challenges of growing up gay in the 1990s and how it led to

Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee Weekend: How will you be celebrating?

May 20, 2022May 26, 2022 Panayiota Demosthenous 572 Views 6 min read

The first weekend of June marks Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee and it’s no surprise that the East End is embracing

Emma Tarbard, manager of The Florist Arms, Globe Road, Globe Town, Bethnal Green, East London.

The Florist Arms landlady Emma Tarbard: choosing the pub life

April 25, 2022April 25, 2022 Polly Nash 1178 Views 8 min read

‘It’s in my blood’: Third generation publican Emma Tarbard left university to continue the family trade of East End pub

Kasper, the much loved cat at Coborn Arms, Bow, who died on New Year's Eve 2022.

Bow residents mourn the loss of Kasper, The Coborn pub cat

January 11, 2022January 14, 2022 Atiya Chowdhury 463 Views 5 min read

Kasper, The Coborn pub cat, brought smiles to Bow for over a year but as locals mourn his death, the

customised disco roller skates, Victoria Park, East London.

Custom disco skates. Photos by Anna Baldwin © Social Streets

Victoria Park’s roller-skating revival – photoessay

June 26, 2021January 14, 2022 Evie Breese 870 Views 7 min read

Roller-skating has brought old and young, beginner and pro skaters together to dance their troubles away in tough times. And

Gary Hutton, author of Product of a Postcode, holding newspaper clipping from News of the World

Reformed criminal Gary Hutton on being a product of a postcode

January 14, 2021January 14, 2022 Tom McGhie 913 Views 6 min read

Gary Hutton, reformed East End criminal from Stepney whose book Product of a Postcode talks of the environmental pressures that can lead to a life of crime, a message he now takes to local schools to help prevent young people from making the same mistakes he did.

Dandelions in Victoria Park, East London

Messages from our spiritual leaders as they reflect on the last year

December 17, 2020January 14, 2022 Siva Thangarajah 481 Views 10 min read

The light of faith has been so important this year, but that light has shown through in so many ways in our country; acts of kindness to strangers, reconnecting with neighbours, those on the frontline of fighting Covid-19.