Bin Strike from today to 1st October Tower Hamlets Council says: “A number of Tower Hamlets Council frontline waste service workers and street cleansers will be going on strike from 18 September to 1 October
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Category: History
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Tourists in our own backyard
Have you ever felt like you were a tourist in your own backyard? If you take a guided tour of Tower Bridge you certainly will. It’s only 3 1/2 miles from where we meet in
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Geezer, John Forster, explains how he came to run 10 East End pubs
John Forster was born in 1941. In 1973 he started working as a pub manager for Trumans. Then he created a company called Town and Country Relief Service which put temporary managers into the following
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Visit from great, grandson of founding member of the Geezers
Last Tuesday The Geezers had a very special visitor, little Dougie Carnegie. He is the great, grandson of one of the all time original Geezers, the one and only, “Jokes are my specialty”, Doug. Little
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The Geezers go to Biscuit Town
Who wouldn’t want to visit a biscuit museum! Geezers Chair Eddie Snooks, although an East London boy, has always remembered the sweet aroma of the Peek Frean biscuit factory in Bermondsey. His mum and dad
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