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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.
This is a 200-year old native black poplar, one of the few remaining trees of its kind in the UK. This tree’s rarity, age and sentimental value to the local community led a council official to state that it is easily ‘the most important veteran tree in Tower Hamlets’.
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Voted Best UK Cinema in 2016, its founder Tyrone Walker-Hebborn tell us about the venue’s surprising beginning, standing up for the underdogs of cinema and bringing the East End’s inclusive spirit to the industry.
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But the open, Mediterranean-style design is also part of a wider mission for Barber beyond just aesthetics.
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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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