Community spirit shines through this year’s Christmas light displays
We sent local photographer Phil Verney to capture the best Christmas lights around the Roman Road area.
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Galleries
A window into life on the canal [photoessay]
I wanted to capture intimate scenes of people’s autumn evenings on the boats.
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Why the local milk round is enjoying a revival
Trevor Culling is the neighbourhood’s silent and often invisible friend, delivering milk to door steps around Roman Road when the
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Sulkin House through a photographer’s lens
Sulkin House is one of the most distinctive buildings in East London, which is no small feat. Designed by Denys
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Oodles of poodles at the Victoria Park Dog Show 2019 [GALLERY]
The Victoria Park Dog Show is the place to be seen in East London, if you’re a dog. Every year
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Bex Shaw’s drawings of Roman Road [GALLERY]
Bex Shaw has lived in Bow for 10 years and immortalised many of the area’s shop fronts with her artwork.
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MO and the Red Ribbon street parade in pictures [GALLERY]
On one of hottest days of the year, thousands of people turned out on Roman Road to see MO and
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The shutter art of Roman Road [GALLERY]
You see a different side to Roman Road at night. When the market stalls have been packed away and the
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Mile End tube station: ‘Miles of Tiles’ [GALLERY]
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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Lights in the darkness – the corner shops of Bow [GALLERY]
Corner shops are one of the staples of city life, their owners the unsung heroes of convenience shopping. Here, local
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Cocooned in wood: the House Mill through a photographer’s lens [GALLERY]
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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A view of the universe from E3 [GALLERY]
Phil Verney is a photographer who lives in Bow. He regularly takes photographs of the night sky from his flat,
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