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The Match Girl Riots Strike Committee at Bryant and May Factory, Bow, East London in 1888.
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‘Never mind their fingers’: the strikers who bled for the East End

February 1, 2023February 7, 2023 George Hayes 1 Comment Features

The East End has a vital history of industrial action. From the Match Girls Strike of 1888 and ‘The Great

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A drawing of Bow Church dating back to the Edwardian era.
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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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An image of Raymond Randolfi smiling to the camera with the Randolfi sign on the wall at Randolfi's, Roman Road, Bow, East London
Photography by Wedgley Snipes © Social Streets C.I.C.
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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Paul Grindy at the counter of his builders merchant Browns of Bow.
Cultural heritage Heritage Local 

The East End heart in Browns of Bow

September 21, 2022December 13, 2022 Victoria Miller 0 Comments Features

For fifty years, Browns of Bow has helped decorate, renovate and build the East End and cemented itself as a

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Queen Elizabeth in a crowd of children at Victoria Park, East London, in 1977
Queen Elizabeth in Victoria Park in 1977
Cultural heritage Heritage Local 

Our Queen Elizabeth in the East End

September 15, 2022December 13, 2022 Victoria Miller 0 Comments Features

Since Queen Elizabeth II’s first visit to the East End aged just 18, she has returned to the area time

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Lee Navigation, Hackney Wick, Looking northward from the junction of the Hertford Union Canal.
Lee Navigation, Hackney Wick, Looking northward from the junction of the Hertford Union Canal, the nearest bridge is Carpenters Road.
Cultural heritage Heritage Local 

From failure to fame, murder to mooring; the untold history of Hertford Union Canal

July 13, 2022December 13, 2022 Panayiota Demosthenous 1 Comment Features

Victoria Park’s water-filled cohabitor has lived in the East End since 1830, but what stories does the Hertford Union Canal

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Gurdwara Sikh Sangat temple on Harley Grove in Bow, East London.
© Social Streets C.I.C
Cultural heritage Heritage Local 

The many lives of Harley Grove’s temple

July 4, 2022December 13, 2022 Victoria Miller 0 Comments Features

The East End’s story is one of movement and Harley Grove’s Sikh temple is a microcosm of the lives of

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Large gas work next to a canal, Bromley-by-Bow, East London
Photography by Tom Hains © Social Streets C.I.C
Cultural heritage Heritage Local 

Unveiled: the world’s largest Victorian gasworks in Bromley-by-Bow

June 17, 2022December 13, 2022 Victoria Miller 2 Comments Features

While it may look to be a derelict brownsite, the Bromley-by-Bow Gasworks were industry giants in their day. We take

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The Kray twins in their boxing days
Ronnie (left) and Reggie Kray during their amateur boxing days
Cultural heritage Heritage Local 

The unrelenting lure of the Kray twins: Jacky Hyams on separating East End truth from folklore

March 1, 2022December 14, 2022 Polly Nash 0 Comments Features

In her new book, Vicious, Elegant Bastards, Hyams delves into the murky world of the notorious Kray twins and the

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The plan for Victoria Park, designed by James Pennethorne.
Cultural heritage Heritage Local 

Sir James Pennethorne: the story behind the architect of the ‘People’s Park’

February 18, 2022December 14, 2022 Zoe Dowsett 0 Comments Features

Creating a park for the community: how Sir James Pennethorne, one London’s most revered architects, was given the role of

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Group of Dr Barnardo's children outside 48 Copperfield Road, Mile End, East London.
Group of Dr Barnardo's children outside 48 Copperfield Road, Mile End, East London.
Cultural heritage Heritage Local 

The History of Copperfield Road Ragged School

January 23, 2022December 14, 2022 Polly Nash 1 Comment Features

Copperfield Road Ragged school brought universal free education to Mile End in the Victorian era, providing a glimmer of hope

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The Albert public house on the corner of St Stephen's Road and Roman Road in 1987, Bow.
Cultural heritage Heritage Local 

The elusive history of The Albert pub

January 13, 2022December 14, 2022 Atiya Chowdhury 1 Comment Features

The Albert pub nestles modestly on the entrance of Roman Road Market offering pints to the thirsty but who knew

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