The East End Canal Festival is on Saturday 16th and Sun 17th July 2022 beside the Art Pavilion, just north of the Green Bridge at Mile End. The event and activities are all free and
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Category: History
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Grandson of local Fire Officer during the Blitz visits the Geezers
Peter Quilter visited the Geezers last Tuesday to give an extraordinarily interesting talk on life at Bow Fire Station during the 1930s and 40s. After 45 years working for NatWest Peter Quilter retired just as
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The murder of Altab Ali 1978
I highly recommend a visit to the exhibition Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point. Racism was on the rise in the early 1970s. Paul Trevor lived close to Brick Lane and started photographing the local people from 1973.
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Holocaust survivor visits the Geezers
Towards the end of May the Geezers were privileged to have 98 year old Henry Glanz visit as a speaker. Henry arrived in Britain in 1939 as part of a group of 200 Jewish children
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Visit newly restored steam locomotive at Poplar
This weekend, Sat 18th & Sun 19th June 2022, you can visit the steam locomotive, “Poplar” as she celebrates her 150th anniversary. This is one of the first of a class of locomotives built at
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