NEW LOCAL FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES The Trustees of Action for Bow are pleased to invite applications from organisations for funding to provide social and educational services in Bow from June 2020 – particularly school holiday activities
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Author: Alan T
I've lived in Bow since 1985, and am fascinated by the rich history of the East End. I'm also interested in all the recent ongoing changes.
Textiles Exhibition by Temple Tube
There’s an extraordinarily interesting free exhibition called Unbound: Visionary Women Collecting Textiles on at Two Temple Place. The textiles on show were collected by women who had their own idiosyncratic interests, and life stories. This
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Moss-filled City Trees eat pollution
I’ve been reading the stories about “city trees”, which are moss-filled structures which are claimed to clean the air as effectively as 275 actual trees. On Saturday I headed up the Central Line to Leytonstone
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Lady Coborn Pub?
There are lots of comments under our Where’s My Boozer Gone? story so far post. The most recent from Annie Green asks: “Anybody know about a pub called the Lady Coborn which was apparently on
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Tullio Crali: A Futurist Life Exhibition
I can recommend this extraordinary exhibition of Italian paintings at the Estorick collection in Canonbury. You can easily get to it from the East End by taking the London Overground from Whitechapel to Canonbury. The
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