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.
‘Sense of community is the soul of this area, Roman Road included. I felt so out of place when I first came to London but Tower Hamlets has been at the root of all my relationships with people of varying ethnicities, races and genders (or lack thereof).’
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With less and less accessible, family-friendly spaces in London, our little corner of the city can greatly benefit from a welcoming and affordable creative space. We can’t afford to let this space die.
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We talk to social photographer and East End native, Rehan Jamil, about his latest project Full English, about what it means to British and Muslim, and the importance of documenting the changing faces of East London.
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Paradise Gardens is perhaps the most overlooked patch of green in the East End, but this small green opposite St.
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Agnes McLaughlin, 16, of the 16th Bethnal Green Girl Guides unit, has been selected to represent North West London Girl
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Passed down from father to son since 1919, Randolfi’s has been serving cuppas and cakes to regulars for over a
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Candace Reading was confronted with the fact that her son, Finlay, had achondroplasia, a common form of dwarfism, 38 weeks
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Update on 19/02/2020: Since publishing this article, the application for this retail space to be turned into a nail bar
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Angular high rise estates, colourful shop fronts, graffiti-covered doorways and graphic 60s tiling. Local fashion photographer Leanne Bebbington has drawn
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Parents have started a petition to keep the Guardian Angels Roman Catholic Primary School in Mile End from closing. After
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2020 has already been called by many “the year of climate action”. This month environmental correspondent Lizzy Mace shows how
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The pages of Wiley’s autobiography, Eskiboy, crackles with an energy that is unique to the man dubbed ‘The godfather of
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