Feeding the Hamlets Exhibition This exhibition, downstairs in the Borough Archives, has just opened. Until mid-Victorian times much of Bow was still fields growing produce for London. In one of my many history books indoors
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Dougie Carnegie talks about being bombed out
Dougie Carnegie (1932 – 2022) talks about being bombed out in the first recording below. After Dougie and Shirley married they lived on Cadogan Terrace at the eastern end of Victoria Park. It was a
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Cllr Marc Francis on the cost of living crisis in Tower Hamlets
This is a guest post from Councillor Marc Francis: This week’s news that the energy price cap is likely to be lifted again to an eye-watering £3,600 by next year shows that the current cost of living
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Dougie Carnegie Audio Recordings
Back in 2017 I not so much interviewed as prompted Dougie to tell me a bit about his life. Dougie passed away recently, and in searching my Mac for photos of him, I rediscovered the
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The Geezers look at 1960s photos of East End in Archives
The Geezers had a privileged view of photos of the East End taken by David Granick from the 1960 – 80s at the Tower Hamlets Borough Archives on Thursday. David Granick was born in 1912
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