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.
Baxter often works the allotment with his younger son, often enjoying Sunday lunch there with the rest of his family. ‘It’s really a rewarding activity for kids I think, because you get to look after and nurture something, and see it grow.’
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‘I love to provide a service to people that might feel as though they aren’t being catered for,’ she says, ‘Whether it’s Muslim women, women with afro hair or straight hair… they also all love the privacy.’
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Roman Road Trust has not only raised original target but are looking to surpass it. But the fight is not yet over.
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Regent’s Canal is an ever-present part of our lives. We jog beside it, we walk over it to get to Bethnal Green. We live in flats overlooking it and perhaps even live on it. But over its 200-year existence, the canal has also quietly helped shape the very area we live in, from its past lives first as the ‘M25’ of in the Industrial Revolution, to its last hurrah in the war efforts.
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Powlesland was a community champion extraordinaire, who won an MBE for her services to the black and ethnic minority communities of East London, will be remembered by many for her legacy of community service, including her decades of work as a headteacher.
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Stephie Devred, a local photographer based in Hackney Wick, took to Roman Road to capture life on the high street
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You would be forgiven for thinking Hannah Brown’s natural landscape paintings – with their quiet lakes and light-dappled foliage – are placed somewhere in the British countryside.
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Bow’s 100-year-old resident, Dabirul Choudhury, is walking laps of his garden while fasting for Ramadan to raise money for those affected by coroanvirus.
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‘We don’t actually know how many people are unpaid carers, because they don’t see themselves as carers. To them, it’s just looking after a loved one. But with the right support, we can be warriors.’
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‘I just wanted to thank people,’ says Liversidge. ‘ All the key workers are just doing their everyday jobs, that they do in their normal life. But at same time they are taking these huge risks to their lives by doing just that.’
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‘One of our receptionists said “I’m really scared”, but we just have to put on our equipment and continue to treat our community members. I think that frontline workers at the NHS do it, so we can do it too and do our part.’
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Nineteenth century social reformer Charles Booth, drew a famous ‘poverty map’ measuring how deprived or well-off households were on a
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