Do you remember Knapp Road School? Bill Hawkins emailed us to ask, if anyone remembered Knapp Road School. A walk to Knapp Road told me that it is now called The Clara Grant Primary School,
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Category: History
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Christmas Markets, Cashless (again), Mystery of a Name, Normal for Westminster
Urban Makers Christmas Market at Ecology Pavilion Next Sat & Sun 7/8th Dec there’s an Urban Makers Christmas Market at the Ecology Pavilion in Mile End Park (E3 5TW) from 11-5 each day. Entry is
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Plans to cast bells in Whitechapel Bell Foundry
Whitechapel Bell Foundry update: Tower Hamlets Council have approved the plans. Read the news on the BBC. The Tower Hamlets Development Committee will consider the latest planning application for Whitechapel Bell Foundry next Thursday, 14th
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Matchgirls Open Day, Car Show, Veteran Car Run, Diwali Celebrations
Matchgirls Memorial Charity Open Day Sat 2nd Nov The Matchgirls Memorial Charity is holding a Community Open Day on Saturday 2nd November at Tower Hamlets Library in Bancroft Road. Samantha Johnson, a Matchgirl descendant, says:
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Whitechapel Bell Foundry planning update
Kay Harding wrote in to say that she’d signed the petition to save the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, but wondered what was happening next. I promised to conduct some research. I started with the Tower Hamlets
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Open House London this weekend
There are places that will be specially open for you to visit free of charge this weekend 21st and 22nd Sept 2019. Locally in Bow these include: Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park – which on Sunday
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Remember Eddy Grimstead?
I just happened to be in Brighton on 26th August – Bank Holiday Monday. This was the last day of the ModWeekender. On the Saturday there had been a special event to celebrate the 40th
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Dumb Smart meters, Thames Water, Sainsbury’s puts tills back, Events at Bow Church
Dumb smart meters still being installed This project seems to have started in 2008 when Energy Secretary, Ed Milliband, set the goal of rolling out 50 million smart meters by 2019. There are 15 million
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