Normality returns on Monday 19th July, but many businesses have already gone. Please sign the petition below to help East End pubs to survive. In 2014 The Geezers started a campaign – Where’s My Boozer
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Grab a Jab in Tower Hamlets
Update 21st Dec 2021 The Tower Hamlets Council website lists bookable and walk-in local vaccination centres here. Anybody over the age of 18 can get a walk-in Covid-19 first vaccination in Tower Hamlets 7 days
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Museum of the Home, Nutrition Advice, Alzheimer’s, Unpaid Carers
Museum of the Home, Hoxton The former Geffrye Museum on Kingsland Road has recently reopened following an £18 million refurbishment. It’s nearly doubled in size, runs across three floors, and has all new exhibits. The
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The Match Tax Protest of 1871
On Saturday 24th April 2021 The Matchgirls Memorial will be marking 150 years since the Match Tax Protest of 1871. Bryant and May workers along with the owners of the factory in Fairfield Road Bow,
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Demand at Bow Foodbank increases tenfold. New (paid) Executive Director sought.
Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic Bow Foodbank has experienced a rapid escalation in the number of families needing support. A second site was opened in Bethnal Green, and the original Bow Foodbank moved
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