Posts Tagged as ‘festival’

April 15, 2008

Anarchy in Victoria Park

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 [...]

March 3, 2008

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 [...]