On Friday night the unexploded WW2 device in Bow was detonated - I don’t have much to add to Going Underground’s post, which includes a dramatic still from a BBC video.
As I was leaving the house a few mornings ago a woman walked past wearing my shoes. Not just the same style from the same [...]
Four years of Boris it is. Sigh.
I feel bad for Diamond Geezer. George Galloway was my MP while I was living in Bow and thoroughly useless he was too.
Victoria Park cropped up briefly a few posts ago, as the site of plentiful suffragette protests and the violent police smackdowns that inevitably accompanied them.
The green “lung” of North East London, Victoria Park was opened in the 1840s amid rising concern about the health of the East End working class, with the aim of providing [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
