Matchgirls Memorial Charity Open Day Sat 2nd Nov The Matchgirls Memorial Charity is holding a Community Open Day on Saturday 2nd November at Tower Hamlets Library in Bancroft Road. Samantha Johnson, a Matchgirl descendant, says:
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Whitechapel Bell Foundry planning update
Kay Harding wrote in to say that she’d signed the petition to save the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, but wondered what was happening next. I promised to conduct some research. I started with the Tower Hamlets
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Open House London this weekend
There are places that will be specially open for you to visit free of charge this weekend 21st and 22nd Sept 2019. Locally in Bow these include: Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park – which on Sunday
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Remember Eddy Grimstead?
I just happened to be in Brighton on 26th August – Bank Holiday Monday. This was the last day of the ModWeekender. On the Saturday there had been a special event to celebrate the 40th
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Dumb Smart meters, Thames Water, Events at Bow Church
Dumb smart meters still being installed This project seems to have started in 2008 when Energy Secretary, Ed Milliband, set the goal of rolling out 50 million smart meters by 2019. There are 15 million
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