Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives invites you to the launch of their exhibition on Radical Housing in Tower Hamlets. The fight for decent and affordable housing has a long history in the East
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A Pankhurst Memorial in the Roman?
The Roman Road Trust is campaigning to have Sylvia Pankhurst, pictured addressing a crowd outside the headquarters of the East London Federation of Suffragettes in Old Ford Road, honoured and celebrated with a statue on or
Read moreTed Lewis – Local Hero
Photo above – Ted Lewis taken in April 2017. Ted is the best of the East End – a boxer, a Billingsgate porter, a union rep, a photographer, a storyteller and a great community person
Read moreTom Ridge – Heritage Campaigner
We would have lost a lot more of the diminishing architectural heritage of the East End if it wasn’t for the tireless campaigning of Tom Ridge. Tom Ridge is the man behind current attempts to
Read moreEEWG Fights on to save the Heritage of Hackney Wick
The latest newsletter from the East End Waterway Group reports that four of the oldest industrial buildings in the Hackney Wick and the Fish Island & White Post Lane Conservation Area on the corner of
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