Don Tomlin update Don Tomlin’s funeral is scheduled for Friday 1st May 2020. Currently it looks like no one will be able to attend due to COVID-19. His family are thinking about holding an event
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Tag: pubs
The New Globe pub, Lady Lane Market, QM Jazz
The New Globe MEOTRA have been investigating what is happening to The New Globe, which people tell me is listed. Tower Hamlets council say that building work has been going on without the relevant planning
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37 Pubs Saved in Tower Hamlets
Last week, Tower Hamlets Council’s Cabinet agreed that 37 of the borough’s most historically and culturally significant venues will be given ‘locally listed’ status. The pubs were listed for the following criteria: Local character and
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Was this the last pub in Bromley by Bow?
Photo above – vanished without trace – The Blue Anchor. Philip Mernick, Chairman of East London History Society, kindly sent us the article below. It also appears in their Summer 2019 Newsletter. You can download
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Carol Singing in the Eleanor
Carol Singing in the Eleanor New Video Added. On their return from the Xmas lunch last week a diehard group of Geezers headed off to the Eleanor Arms on Old Ford Road for a few
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