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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.

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
Kirk Whitelock in Aberfeldy Boxing Club
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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Rosa Rogina sits by the Hertford Union Canal in Hackney Wick, East London
Photography by Gerhard Falb © Social Streets C.I.C
Cultural heritage Local Voices 

London Festival of Architecture’s Director Rosa Rogina on the ‘beauty’ of Roman Road

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

Why Roman Road is the perfect place to blend communities and cultures, according to the director of London Festival of

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Mustafa Has standing by a canal in Old Ford, East London
Photography © Simon Wheatley
Local News Voices 

The emperor of Roman Road: Mustafa Has

October 24, 2022December 13, 2022 Victoria Miller 0 Comments Features

Local entrepreneur Mustafa Has is overtaking Roman Road’s food scene, and the locals love it. But, what’s the secret to

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author Jean Fullerton with her parents in 1958, Globe Town, East London
Image courtesy of Jean Fullerton
Cockney Cultural heritage Life and living Local 

Jean Fullerton: ‘The Queen of the East End’

October 14, 2022December 13, 2022 Polly Nash 0 Comments Features

The Queen of the East End turns from saga fiction to memoir, transporting readers to the gritty reality of Cockney

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Roony Keefe and Jason Balfourth, hosts of Couple of Dads podcast, holding their babies
Roony 'RiskyRoadz' Keefe, holding son Brandon, and Jason 'Jay Bits' Balforth holding daughter, Mabel.
Cultural heritage Life and living Local News 

Couple of Dads podcast: Fatherhood in the East End uncensored

October 10, 2022December 13, 2022 Polly Nash 0 Comments News

From spitting bars to running baths: Bow Grime director and content creator embrace fatherhood with launch of new podcast. Roman

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Safia Jama MBE in a park with backdrop of flats
Cultural heritage Local News Voices 

Black, female and Muslim: Safia Jama’s rise from Bow comprehensive to MBE

October 6, 2022December 13, 2022 Victoria Miller 0 Comments Features

From Bow resident to British royalty, Bow raised Safia Jama speaks to us about how her childhood shaped her determination

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Mohan and Shinder Bakhar, outside their home in Bow.
Local News Voices 

This is Home: Jagmohan and Shinder Bhakar, Sikhs in Bow

October 3, 2022October 3, 2022 Victoria Miller 0 Comments Features

Bow Sikh couple Jagmohan and Shinder Bhakar speak about blending Western clothing with their own, viewing their neighbours as an

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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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Sophia Chisty with her daughter contemplating the cost of living crisis.
Sophia Chisty with her daughter contemplating the cost of living crisis.
Local News Voices 

One local mother is working all hours to cope with the cost of living

September 4, 2022December 13, 2022 Victoria Miller 0 Comments Cost of living, Features

With concern about the cost of living soaring for the winter, it bit just as hard in the summer as

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Burte Gerelt Od, a Mongolian living in Bow.
© Social Streets C.I.C.
Local News Voices 

This is Home: Burte Gerelt-Od, a Mongolian in Bow

August 29, 2022December 13, 2022 Victoria Miller 0 Comments Features

Bow Road teenager Burte Gerelt-Od speaks to us about British and Mongolian school systems, cultural diversity fashion shows, and why

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