Local life, culture and things to do

Highlights of East End Film Festival 2018

East End Film Festival 2018 is underway and with over 95 screenings and events at cinemas across East London it

At one point there was as many as 33 cinemas in Tower Hamlets, but the majority of the small independents

It’s hard to imagine Roman Road without SNAP, the quirky gift store that has become our staple shop for gifts

Pie and mash is a favourite with us on Roman Road, but with spring in the air, the craving for

Join the national campaign and help Roman Road ban non-recyclable single-use plastic packaging by attending the mass request at Tesco

Eleanor Crow’s East London shopfront illustrations capture the spirit of some of our most loved shopfronts in the Roman Road

Melanie McGrath’s tale of life on Roman Road through the lens of G Kelly’s pie and mash shop covers the

This Good Friday, take part in the local tradition of Bun Day that dates back nearly 200 years at the

Sensing Place: Mapping Memory in the East End is a crowdsourcing project that gathers people’s photographs of Tower Hamlets for

The Spitalfields Trust wants to buy the Trinity Green Almshouses to stop them falling further into disrepair. In 2015, author

Borne out of a love for photography, Roman Road local Zoë Gower-Jones’s Can I Take Your Picture? project began on 1 January