Vaccine stories: Injecting hope at the Mile End Art Pavilion
Mile End Park’s stunning Art Pavilion has been turned into a vaccination centre to play its part in the fight
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Society
Your guide to the people, passions, culture and heritage that have formed Roman Road’s identity. Discover the communities and cultures of our neighbourhood, its creative industries, social history and personal stories; the heritage that has created our identity, including Bow grime music, the East London Suffragettes, East End and Cockney, and British Bangladeshi; and what we are passionate about, from philanthropic initiatives to campaigns to save our heritage and the environment.
Bethnal Green and Bow receive millions in emergency cultural funding
Tower Hamlets secured over £5.5 million of emergency funding for cultural organisations distributed between 51 recipients, all but eight of
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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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How a Morpeth school teacher’s initiative to tackle kids’ vaccine fears went national
As thoughts turn to coronavirus vaccines for kids, Morpeth School teacher Ed Stubbs’ initiative to tackle pupils’ vaccine hesitancy has
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Artist Marc Gooderham’s East End: ‘How can I make that street corner sing?’
We spoke to artist Marc Gooderham on the nostalgia of our favourite East End haunts, and what makes a place
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Suryagupta: London Buddhist Centre’s first black and female Chair
Suryagupta became Chair of the London Buddhist Centre in 2018 to become the organisation’s first ever non-white-male head. She talks
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Pubs, parks and pastry sellers: The Neighbourhood Plan to save what we love
It’s been a long five years for the Roman Road Bow Neighbourhood Forum, but they have finally released the draft
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Open Letter: Support the Fire Safety Bill on March 22nd
An open letter from Mojo residents urges people to sign a Fire Safety Bill petition to protect leaseholders from paying
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Rachel Blake, Cllr for Bow East, on Matchgirls and markets
Growing up in North London, Rachel Blake never anticipated that she would spend much of her adult life in Bow, as Councillor for Bow East and now Deputy Mayor of Tower Hamlets.
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The Suffragette People’s Army of Victoria Park
As the Suffragettes began to use more radical tactics on their quest to change democracy – the West End was sacked in late 1912 – they started to encounter police repression, who saw them as a ‘threat to national security’.
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Local appeals to ensure enough laptops for local school children
Facing some of the greatest digital poverty in the country, our local schools, politicians and the council have taken action
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Captain Dave: All aboard the Floating Church!
Moored up in Hackney Wick is the Floating Church. This barge-come-chapel is run by Reverend Dave Pilkington, a man who
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