Skellingtons!

One of our new 3000 year old friends from under the Olympic Park in Stratford. I wish I could fold my jawbones out like that.
Mmmandibles.

Ships and eagles

This lovely rusty sky-faring vessel is one of a pair sitting on the front wall of the Trinity Almshouses on Mile End Road in Stepney Green. Built in 1695, there’s a chance the Almshouses were the work of Christopher Wren, which would be quite exciting. According to this useful site:
These handsome almshouses were built [...]

Are those space pants?

Because your ass is out of this world!
I am assuming here that you - the object of my affections - have not recently been to the Space Age exhibition at the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood. Had you been, and seen the pair of *actual* space pants on display, you might interpret “out of this [...]

Coming over here, stealing our steam engines…

Was it asylum seekers? No, not this time - the dropping-encrusted engine which has been standing proudly outside Stratford station since 1999 has in fact been snaffled by the Olympians. Possibly feeling a bit ‘tired and emotional’ after almost a decade of drunken fights and kebab-splatterings, Robert has apparently been moved to a sort of [...]

The Magical Mr Latif

My flatmate found this in our mailbox, and I feel it deserves a wider audience:

“THE RESULT: Believeable.” Yes. Yes, I’m sure it will be.

Further adventures of the East London Suffragettes

For anyone who knows the area, these were the addresses of the various East London Federation of Suffragettes projects, 1912 - 1924:
First ELFS HQ - 198 Bow Road (site only)
A baker’s shop that became Sylvia Pankhurst’s first East London office. To the shock and, I’m sure, disapproval of the local inhabitants she painted ‘Votes for [...]

Suffragettery in Bow

In honour of International Women’s Day yesterday, and the fact that 2008 marks 90 years since UK women won the vote, I thought I’d post a little bit about Sylvia Pankhurst and the suffragettes of East London. There is suffragettery all over the place around here. As you walk out of the station you’ll see [...]

Eastival

Just a quick heads up about the East festival, 6 - 11 March, if you haven’t already seen it. There are listings for events and exhibitions and details about shops and restaurants. To be honest though, after looking through the programme it seems more like a snapshot of what’s going on all the time [...]

Banana latte lady

Click. Click… Click?
Ah, the sweet sound of another power cut. Whenever this happens, and I get interweb withdrawal shakes, I head over to Roman Road market and to Chicchi internet cafe. I’m not sure exactly what their internet policy is now - it used to be if you bought anything over £1 then you could [...]