Old Ford Housing Association tenants and their families met last week with the Mayor John Briggs and Bethnal Green and Bow MP Rushanara Ali at a meeting in St Paul’s Church Hall to continue their
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A Pankhurst Memorial in the Roman?
The Roman Road Trust is campaigning to have Sylvia Pankhurst, pictured addressing a crowd outside the headquarters of the East London Federation of Suffragettes in Old Ford Road, honoured and celebrated with a statue on or
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Hairy Bikers a Big Let Down
Last week’s programme The Hairy Bikers’ Pubs That Built Britain focussing on the disappearing pubs of East London has come in from criticism from locals. Not only for the shabby way they were treated at
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Tom Ridge – Heritage Campaigner
We would have lost a lot more of the diminishing architectural heritage of the East End if it wasn’t for the tireless campaigning of Tom Ridge. Tom Ridge is the man behind current attempts to
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EEWG Fights on to save the Heritage of Hackney Wick
The latest newsletter from the East End Waterway Group reports that four of the oldest industrial buildings in the Hackney Wick and the Fish Island & White Post Lane Conservation Area on the corner of
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