A cockney holiday: East Ender’s favourite seaside haunts
With foreign travel likely off the cards this year, we rediscover the seaside holiday destinations that East Enders have long
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Things to do
Places to visit, things to do and what’s on around Roman Road including events, exhibitions, courses, workshops, walks, talks and nightlife.
The Great Eastern Parks Route: how a forest garden developed into a greenway
Campaigning to protect and enhance green spaces has never been more crucial. Citizen journalist Stefania Di Cio` looks into how
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Inside the Stepney Union Workhouse, home to East London’s poorest children
Citizen journalist Kate Rutland dives into the records of the Stepney Union Workhouse to unearth the lives of the pauper
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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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Encounter Bow: celebrating Bow’s diverse community
With Encounter Bow fast approaching, we chat to the festival’s curator, Moi Tran, about Covid-19, archives and the diverse communities
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Top six restaurants for parties of six
Typically an innocuous date, this year the 17th of May marks an important moment in the calendar. As spring turns
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Street art that commemorates social reformers
Think you know all the hidden gems around here? We went on a hunt for the best street art around
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Victoria Park: the wintery wonderland on our doorstep
These photos of Victoria Park covered in snow will help to banish any blues you might have this winter. Picturesque all year round, this green space on our doorstep has been transformed into an ethereal world dusted with snowflakes. This really is ‘the best park in the world’.
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Surprising vistas of a wintery dawn walk along the Regent’s Canal
These photos of Regent’s Canal taken recently on a dark dawn walk capture a moment in time in the history
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Incredible photos of Roman Road from Bow to Globe Town
Here’s our our pick of the best photos of Roman Road from Bow to Globe – you can see why we love it so.
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The story behind the Dogs of Alcibiades statues in Victoria Park
The statues are marble sculptures of Molossian Hounds and were donated to the park by Lady Aignarth, a wealthy and clearly rather generous resident of East London, in 1912. They are rumoured to have been a commemoration of her late husband, Horatio, who passed away that year.
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A free 10-week mental wellbeing ‘toolkit’ to help you through lockdown
After nearly a year of living with Covid-19, we find ourselves yet again in another lockdown akin to last March. And this time, you might agree that we’re collectively worn down from a year of living with the pandemic and, unlike last time, there’s less sun to provide us with some much-needed Vitamin D.
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