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Discover the top attractions to visit in the Roman Road area from Victoria Park and Tower Hamlets Cemetery in Bow to the London Buddhist Centre and Meath Gardens in Globe Town. Read our area guides and suggested tours of the local heritage, arts and cultural highlights.
Opening in 1999, Mile End Park is a linear stretch of green that starts at Roman Road and runs southwards like a ribbon alongside Regent’s Canal, crossing over bustling Mile End Road and ending at the Limehouse basin.
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Sulkin House is one of the most distinctive buildings in East London, which is no small feat. Designed by Denys
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Augustus Casely-Hayford, writer and broadcaster, current director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington US and part
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Every year the concrete metropolis fills up with twinkling lights, festive decorations, tiny stalls, pop-ups, and a merry atmosphere to
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Open House London is almost upon us. The weekend festival is a chance for Londoners to take a closer look
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On the east side of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, outside the London Aquatics Centre, there is a striking piece
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Roman Road Market has been one of East London’s most renowned markets for over 150 years. Running three days a
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Victoria Park has been voted the nation’s favourite park two years in a row, and with good reason. It has
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Does public art still matter? Does it still speak to the individual, to the citizen, and to the community? Is
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Just minutes north of Roman Road, the Chisenhale Art Place has been a home to artists of all stripes since
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Every day, some 25,000 of us hop on at Mile End tube station to brave the baking Central line, whether
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It has been some time since the streets were awash with gin, but entering the old House Mill in Bromley-by-Bow
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