Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.
Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.
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East-End London’s last Victorian funeral parlour to be restored
The shabby remains of a Victorian funeral parlour in East London is to be restored to its original appearance following the awarding of a grant by the Heritage of London Trust.
Chrisp Street market set for controversial redevelopment
A long-running and at times controversial plan to redevelop the Festival of Britain era Chrisp Street market in Tower Hamlets has taken a step forward after the council formally issued a compulsory purchase order for the entire site.
Pedestrianising Shoreditch’s Arnold Circus
A much loved local landmark that's also in the middle of a roundabout could see cars banned under plans by the local council.
See inside the derelict Royal London Hospital
One of East London's earliest hospitals is currently being gutted, and there's been a chance to see inside as they work to turn it into Tower Hamlet's new Town Hall.
A display of poisons and lotions
A museum filled with medicines can be found just around the corner from the Tower of London, presumably to offer salves to those who had just lost their heads.
London’s Pocket Parks: Albert Square Gardens, E1
A few miles from its fictional location, there is a very real Albert Square and it has a large open garden in the heart of the square.
Early colour photographs of East London on display
An exhibition has opened of previously unseen photographs which depict Stepney, Mile End, Whitechapel, Spitalfields, Limehouse and the Thames riverside in the warm hues of Kodachrome film.
A memorial to over 500 unmarked children’s graves in Tower Hamlets
Over a 50 year period, at least 500 children were buried in unmarked graves in Tower Hamlets cemetery. Now a new monument to them has been unveiled in the cemetery park.
It's a foggy Halloween morning, so where better than to spend it wandering around a graveyard?
The Isle of Dogs Declares Independence from the UK
Following on from the rather dubious Mayoral election yesterday in Tower Hamlets, some people living on the Isle of Dogs (well, probably just me) might be wondering if we can be cut free from the rest of the Borough and…
