Our Bow: News and events in and around Bow, East London, from the Geezers.
There’s an extraordinarily interesting free exhibition called Unbound: Visionary Women Collecting Textiles on at Two Temple Place. The textiles on show were collected by women who had their own idiosyncratic interests, and life stories. This
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I’ve been reading the stories about “city trees”, which are moss-filled structures which are claimed to clean the air as effectively as 275 actual trees. On Saturday I headed up the Central Line to Leytonstone
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There are lots of comments under our Where’s My Boozer Gone? story so far post. The most recent from Annie Green asks: “Anybody know about a pub called the Lady Coborn which was apparently on
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I can recommend this extraordinary exhibition of Italian paintings at the Estorick collection in Canonbury. You can easily get to it from the East End by taking the London Overground from Whitechapel to Canonbury. The
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Please pass this on ASAP to anybody you know who has a shop or market stall in Bow. Tower Hamlets Council has just sent out a notice that they are holding a Liveable Streets co-design
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The Tower Hamlets Local Plan for the next ten years was formally adopted by the council on Weds 15th Jan 2020. Mayor, John Biggs, said that the population of Tower Hamlets had doubled during the
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Update: Bow Arts closing venues: “We have taken the decision to close our public venues – RAW Labs, Nunnery Gallery, Nunnery Café and Lakeside Centre will be closed from 18 March 2020 until further notice
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The Tower Hamlets Safer Neighbourhood Board are holding a public meeting from 6-8pm at the Toynbee Hall on Weds 29th Jan 2020. The Toynbee Hall is at 28 Commercial Street, London, E1 6LS – just
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