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Looking for old friends: Knapp Road School, and Sumner House, Watts Grove / Devons Road London E3

Looking for old friends Knapp Road School and Sumner House London E3

9th January 2023 Alan T History, News in and around Bow

Jimmy Drysdale and Chris Savory wrote in to ask. Knapp Road School It would be great to have contact with anyone remembering me during the 1950s at Knapp Road School. I lived in Rounton Road,

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Looking east along Tredegar Road, Bow, at Pelican Cottage.

Pelican Cottage & the Eastern End of Tredegar Road Bow

8th January 2023 Alan T History, News in and around Bow

If you look east along Tredegar Road, over the top of the mini roundabout at the junction with Fairfield Road you’ll see Pelican Cottage. It was built just after 1800, and is now Grade II

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Dougie Carnegie Audio Recordings

1st August 2022 Alan T History, News in and around Bow, The Geezers

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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Rosie Vincent visits The Geezers on a project to revitalise the Bow Heritage Trail

Rosie Vincent visits Geezers on project to update Bow Heritage Trail

21st July 2022 Alan T Campaigns, History, Roman Road, The Geezers

The Roman Road Trust is working on a project to revitalise and update the Bow Heritage Trail which was created in 1990 by Tower Hamlets Council. Their new project: Rediscovering the Bow Heritage Trail is

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Faked Zinoviev Letter which discredited the first UK Labour Government

Free 1921 Census Exhibition

2nd May 2022 Alan T History, News in and around Bow

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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