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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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.
Roman Road to be left with no high street banks from September 2021
The Nationwide branch is set to close on 19 August, with the Barclays following suit on 15 September, leaving many
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Open Letter from Editor: Launch of new platform to help us live life locally
Roman Road LDN’s Editor-in-Chief announces the launch of a neighbourhood portal to help us build better lives as we come
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Living in style: inside the Bow flat made beautiful by stylist Wojtek van Portek
Wojtek van Portek, Roman Road’s resident stylist and art director, chats to us about styling his compact home in Bow.
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The Borrowers of Hackney Wick: welcome to the Library of Things
The Library of Things, the social enterprise making “borrowing better than buying” in order to create a more sustainable future,
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Zine-maker Wedgley Snipes talks street photography, the Bow Food Bank, and a load of hot air
Welcome to the whimsical world of Wedgley Snipes, hand-dryer reviewer extraordinaire and un-official photographer of Roman Road. Wedgley Snipes is
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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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Stitches, the tailoring business bringing East London’s clothes back to life
Based on Roman Road, Stitches is a small tailoring business gaining a big reputation for bringing East London’s clothes back to life.
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Cladding scandal: Trapped in a ‘matchbox’ in Bow East
Resident of the Mojo Development, Charlotte Meehan, tells her story of being trapped in a building riddled with fire safety
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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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A sketch of Alice Sielle and the community she has drawn together
One of Tredegar Square’s longest residents, Alice Sielle’s new book of portraits documents the familiar faces of local people who
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East London art exhibitions open this spring: from Whitechapel to Chisenhale Gallery
As art exhibitions re-open, we explore the best East London’s galleries have to offer, from performance art to painting to immersive sculptural experiences.
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