Peter Quilter visited the Geezers last Tuesday to give an extraordinarily interesting talk on life at Bow Fire Station during the 1930s and 40s. After 45 years working for NatWest Peter Quilter retired just as
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Free tours of Trellick Tower Sat 9th July
Trellick Tower is across town near Westbourne Park tube. It was designed by Ernő Goldfinger as a follow up to Balfron Tower in Poplar. Trellick Tower turns 50 this year. The Trellick Tower Residents Association
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Tech Careers Fair, Tower Hamlets wants feedback, Cancer Exhibition
Free Cancer Revolution: Science, innovation and hope exhibition This free to visit object-rich exhibition reveals the past, present and future of how cancer is prevented, detected and treated. It’s on at the Science Museum at
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The murder of Altab Ali 1978
I highly recommend a visit to the exhibition Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point. Racism was on the rise in the early 1970s. Paul Trevor lived close to Brick Lane and started photographing the local people from 1973.
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Holocaust survivor visits the Geezers
Towards the end of May the Geezers were privileged to have 98 year old Henry Glanz visit as a speaker. Henry arrived in Britain in 1939 as part of a group of 200 Jewish children
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