Across town at the National Archives in Kew there’s a free exhibition on called The 1920s: Beyond the Roar. It shows how people from all sections of society experienced the 1920s. They’ve put original material
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Category: History
We need your personal and shared memories of of growing up, living and working in Bow
Memories of the Tredegar Estate, Bow
Sunil Rana wrote in to ask if I’d made any progress on tracking down photos of the old Tredegar Estate of 1976 – 2003 (approx). He grew up on the estate, before it was knocked
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Exhibitions and Talks
Youth of Yesterday at Oxford House, Bethnal Green In the 1970s photographer Philip Cunningham captured local daily life, friendship and street culture. This free exhibition (photo above) is open 10am to 5pm Monday to Friday
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Morocco Slaves, Synagogue, Music Halls, Boxing, and Mosque
The OurBow website has been moved to new servers and has recovered from the cyber attack. How a Whitechapel pub came to be called the Morocco Slaves…
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Energy bills, Theatres, English Civil War history
Keeping older people warm and well As you know the cost of gas has gone up by a huge amount. The Government can’t control it because we decided to import gas rather than to carry
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