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.

Pelican Cottage in the 1970s when the yard was Bates Scrap Metal Merchants.
Pelican Cottage in the 1970s when the yard was Bates Scrap Metal Merchants, a few years after Marion and her parents had left. The front door is bricked up and the house left in disrepair.
Cultural heritage East End & Cockney Local 

The story of Pelican Cottage and William Press Yard

Citizen Journalist 314 Views 0 Comments 4 min read

Recently discovered archive photographs of Pelican Cottage reveal its links to the neighbouring William Press Yard and life in ‘fifties

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The Junior Suffrafettes at the East London Federation of Suffragette's New year party at Bow baths, East London, in 1916. Middle row, left, sixteen-year-old Rose Pangelly plays the panpipes.
The Junior Suffrafettes at the East London Federation of Suffragette's New year party at Bow baths, East London, in 1916. Middle row, left, sixteen-year-old Rose Pangelly plays the panpipes.
Cultural heritage Suffragettes 

Book review: Natural Born Rebel, a biography of Sylvia Pankhurst

Tabitha Potts 232 Views 0 Comments 4 min read

Our book reviewer Tabitha Potts reads Natural Born Rebel, Rachel Homes’ biography of Sylvia Pankhurst, which tells the riveting story

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