We’re informed by our local Police that in the last two weeks: “Nine burglaries have taken place upon house-boats moored along Regents and Hertford Union Canals. Please remain vigilant if you find yourself walking along
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Category: News in and around Bow
Our Bow: News and events in and around Bow, East London, from the Geezers.
Open Banking starts 13th Jan 2018
Open Banking enables small businesses and private individuals to share the data the big banks already hold on them with other organisations. The idea is that this will foster competition and smaller banks and loan
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Tower Hamlets outside London, Geffrye Museum closing, Poetry Writing, Globe Town Vision, Apple Mac training,
Here’s a wonderful post in the Londonist about Tower Hamlets on Sea. The 1970s amateur video here is a real delight. My photo above shows another reason to visit Dover as a tourist. It’s the
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London’s Air Ambulance, Charles Booth’s map of Deptford, Suffragette City walk
Above – Charles Booth’s poverty map of Deptford London’s Air Ambulance gets urgent, essential, pre-hospital medical care to patients inside the M25. They need to double their income over the next five years to continue to
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Highlights from 2017 on the Our Bow website
Reports from the Geezers website: In January 2017 author, Kate Thompson, came to talk to the the Geezers about her local books, Secrets of the Sewing Bee and the Secrets of the Singer Girls. Kate
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