A cockney holiday: East Ender’s favourite seaside haunts
With foreign travel likely off the cards this year, we rediscover the seaside holiday destinations that East Enders have long
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Heritage
Inside the Stepney Union Workhouse, home to East London’s poorest children
Citizen journalist Kate Rutland dives into the records of the Stepney Union Workhouse to unearth the lives of the pauper
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The story of Pelican Cottage and William Press Yard
Recently discovered archive photographs of Pelican Cottage reveal its links to the neighbouring William Press Yard and life in ‘fifties
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Charles Booth’s poverty map of London: where does your street rank?
Charles Booth’s poverty maps have been digitised by the London School of Economics allowing us to compare streets then and
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Folklore of the East End: A Blind Beggar, Phantom Flusher, and miraculous Mulberry Bush
We delve into the myths, legends and folklore that coats the streets of London’s East End. London’s East End is
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How Queen Matilda’s dip in the Lea created Bow Bridge
The history of Bow Bridge is an invisible but important element of our identity, giving its name to the neighbourhood
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George Lansbury Labour MP for Bow and Bromley: ‘a great, servant to the people’
George Lansbury, former MP of Bow and Bromley, is remembered by all for his immense devotion to the people of the East End. Unlike many politicians who were born into the life of education and power, George Lansbury was truly a man of the people. Hardships from his early years shaped him to be a compassionate and fervent ally to women and the working class of the East End.
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George Burchett: the tattoo artist from Bow who drew on Kings
George Burchett, known as the ‘King of Tattooists’, lived in Bow in the 1900s and tattooed Kings. His legacy as one of the forerunners of the tattoo industry as it is today survives him and his ink will go down in history.
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Book review: The Little History of the East End
It’s very impressive how much careful research and detail Gordon manages to include while covering such a long period of history and making it short, readable and entertaining.
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Charles R. Ashbee: the man who brought arts and crafts to the East End
In a survey of the church in 1900, he commends the ‘good people of Bow’, for not listening to outside experts to modernise the church, as he believed its 14th century medieval architecture should be maintained as is.
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Piecing together the lives lost in our area during The Blitz
Later that night, Mr Levene of 82 Lyal Road died of a heart attack at home during the raid. If the heart attack was brought on by the bombardment, he was likely the first person to die as a result of the bombing of Bethnal Green in the Second World War.
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Cockney rhyming slang history: the roots, the rhymes and the reasons
Ever fallen down the ‘apples and pears’? Have you had your ‘barnet’ chopped recently? Called a mate on the old
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