Working from the office is ramping up. There are big salaries on offer for the right people. I’ve been walking around the City for years watching bigger and bigger office developments shoot up. The developers
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Tag: east end
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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Whatever next? Machines for Bikes
Yesterday I escaped staring at the computer and headed down the DLR to walk round a different neighbourhood. Close to East India DLR I was stopped in my tracks by the machine below. I was
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Visual Thinking Part 1 – Mile End Art Pavilion
Fabulous exhibition: Visual Thinking Part 1 2020 – now closed Last Sunday I walked past the Ecology Pavilion in Mile End Park. It was shuttered front and back as usual. I was fully expecting to
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New Book: The East End Canal Tales
There’s a new book out written by Carolyn Clark which weaves together the memories of 50 local residents with historical accounts. The East End Canal Tales tells intriguing, humorous, moving and often surprising stories of
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