Lotte Wubben-Moy: Bow to Arsenal, America to the Tokyo Olympics, and home again
From starting the first girl’s football team at Olga Primary School to representing Great Britain at the Olympics, local resident
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Culture & communities
Your guide to the communities, cultures, creative endeavours and personal stories of the people who live in the neighbourhoods around Roman Road
Hooked on urban fishing: ‘It’s about being out there, connecting with nature and appreciating life.’
London has long been home to a fishing tradition of its own. Here, local photographers Tom Hains and Ash Gardner capture
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Victoria Park by Gemma Reeves book review – touching and tasting East London
This debut novel by Gemma Reeves is a dreamy montage of lives connected by delight in the small things while
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Your Home Made Perfect architect Julian McIntosh on bringing a derelict Bow church back to life
BBC Two’s Your Home Made Perfect architect Julian McIntosh tells us how he was inspired to make Holy Trinity Bow
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Turn a Blind Eye by Vicky Newham review – the body count mounts in Mile End
Our reviewer Tabitha Potts casts her eyes over Vicky Newham’s debut murder mystery Turn a Blind Eye, twisting and turning
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Secrets of the Homefront Girls by Kate Thompson – ‘beauty was their duty’
A love letter to East London, The Secrets of the Homefront Girls shows how everyone counts whatever their gender, class
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Meet Chris Ross, the East End poet keeping Cockney culture young
We talk to Chris Ross, the Cockney poet taking social media by storm with his poems about everyday life in
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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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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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Ken Greenway on how to ‘see nature, enjoy it and find comfort in it’
Manager of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park for 19 years, Ken Greenway, shares his secret on how to make space for
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Camera as liberation: the founding of Four Corners and Camerawork
As Four Corners edges towards a full reopening, we glance back over its radical history, inextricable from that of the road it serves.
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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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