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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.

Getting their vaccine, Art Pavilion, Mile End. Photoessay by Rose Palmer.
Photography by Rose palmer
Cultural heritage Culture & communities Local Society 

Vaccine stories: Injecting hope at the Mile End Art Pavilion

April 10, 2021April 9, 2021 Evie Breese 28 Views 0 Comments Features 9 min read

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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Fox painting by Rosewood, photo by Damien Griffiths
Campaigns Good causes Local Society 

Bethnal Green and Bow receive millions in emergency cultural funding

April 8, 2021April 8, 2021 Sam Shaw 23 Views 0 Comments 2 min read

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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The old Bow Bridge, shortly before demolition in 1832.
Cultural heritage East End & Cockney Local Society 

How Queen Matilda’s dip in the Lea created Bow Bridge

April 4, 2021April 5, 2021 Maria Albano 116 Views 0 Comments 3 min read

The history of Bow Bridge is an invisible but important element of our identity, giving its name to the neighbourhood

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School teacher Ed Stubbs stands outside Morpeth School where he developed resources to teach pupils about the coronavirus vaccine
Campaigns Society 

How a Morpeth school teacher’s initiative to tackle kids’ vaccine fears went national

March 31, 2021March 31, 2021 Evie Breese 244 Views 0 Comments Features, society 5 min read

As thoughts turn to coronavirus vaccines for kids, Morpeth School teacher Ed Stubbs’ initiative to tackle pupils’ vaccine hesitancy has

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Palm Tree pub, , painting by artist Marc Gooderman
Arts & artists Local Society 

Artist Marc Gooderham’s East End: ‘How can I make that street corner sing?’

March 24, 2021March 29, 2021 Evie Breese 89 Views 0 Comments 4 min read

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, Chair of London Buddhist Centre, East London
Local Society 

Suryagupta: London Buddhist Centre’s first black and female Chair

March 19, 2021March 27, 2021 Tom McGhie 87 Views 0 Comments Features 5 min read

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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Goose Green pub on Anglo Road, Bow, with its doors closed.
Campaigns Local Planning and development Society 

Pubs, parks and pastry sellers: The Neighbourhood Plan to save what we love

March 18, 2021March 21, 2021 Evie Breese 103 Views 0 Comments News 5 min read

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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Mojo Housing Development, Bow, East London
Campaigns Local Planning and development Society 

Open Letter: Support the Fire Safety Bill on March 22nd

March 15, 2021March 20, 2021 Tabitha Stapely 251 Views 6 Comments News 4 min read

An open letter from Mojo residents urges people to sign a Fire Safety Bill petition to protect leaseholders from paying

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Councillor Rachel Blake, Mile End Park
Campaigns Culture & communities Local 

Rachel Blake, Cllr for Bow East, on Matchgirls and markets

March 10, 2021March 10, 2021 Nicola Rushton 126 Views 1 Comment Local 5 min read

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 People's Army suffragettes training in Victoria Park, 1913
Cultural heritage Local Suffragettes 

The Suffragette People’s Army of Victoria Park

March 1, 2021February 26, 2021 Tom McGhie 243 Views 2 Comments Local 3 min read

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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The playground at Olga School, Bow, East London
Olga Primary School
Campaigns Good causes Local Society 

Local appeals to ensure enough laptops for local school children

February 27, 2021March 2, 2021 Tom McGhie 47 Views 0 Comments News 3 min read

Facing some of the greatest digital poverty in the country, our local schools, politicians and the council have taken action

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Reverend David Pilkington, otherwise known, as Captain Dave on the gloating church, Genesis
Photo by Gilbert McCarragher
Cultural heritage Culture & communities Local Society 

Captain Dave: All aboard the Floating Church!

February 18, 2021February 20, 2021 Tom McGhie 251 Views 2 Comments Features 6 min read

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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