Local news and culture magazine
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.
‘The youth clubs were the element that brought everyone together as part of that MCing culture. So after they started shutting down, everyone sort of drifted,’ laments Gipson.
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The Novo Cemetery marks the beginning of an integrated Anglo-Jewish community’, with ‘indistinguishable, rich merchants from the West Indies lie next to poor cigar makers from Whitechapel, factory owners a foot away from their workers
Chisenhale Art Place, the imposing red brick warehouse set on the Hertford Canal on Chisenhale Road, has housed artists, sculptors and dancers since the1980s yet its origin remains little-known by locals.
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‘I want everyone who lives here to be connected to our history because it adds a sense of belonging for everyone.’
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‘Sense of community is the soul of this area, Roman Road included. I felt so out of place when I first came to London but Tower Hamlets has been at the root of all my relationships with people of varying ethnicities, races and genders (or lack thereof).’
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With less and less accessible, family-friendly spaces in London, our little corner of the city can greatly benefit from a welcoming and affordable creative space. We can’t afford to let this space die.
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We talk to social photographer and East End native, Rehan Jamil, about his latest project Full English, about what it means to British and Muslim, and the importance of documenting the changing faces of East London.
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Paradise Gardens is perhaps the most overlooked patch of green in the East End, but this small green opposite St.
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Agnes McLaughlin, 16, of the 16th Bethnal Green Girl Guides unit, has been selected to represent North West London Girl
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Passed down from father to son since 1919, Randolfi’s has been serving cuppas and cakes to regulars for over a
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Candace Reading was confronted with the fact that her son, Finlay, had achondroplasia, a common form of dwarfism, 38 weeks
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Update on 19/02/2020: Since publishing this article, the application for this retail space to be turned into a nail bar
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