Chinese New Year – the Year of the Rabbit The Chinese New Year festival is on Sunday 22 January 2023, but with events also taking place on the surrounding days. The Londonist has a page
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Courses and Classes near Bow
Tower Hamlets Idea Store Learning Learn something new and make new friends. Checkout the Idea Store Learning for a choice of 900 courses starting from 19th September. Classes include: business, cookery, dance, DIY, ESOL, fashion,
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Cllr Marc Francis on the cost of living crisis in Tower Hamlets
This is a guest post from Councillor Marc Francis: This week’s news that the energy price cap is likely to be lifted again to an eye-watering £3,600 by next year shows that the current cost of living
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The Geezers look at 1960s photos of East End in Archives
The Geezers had a privileged view of photos of the East End taken by David Granick from the 1960 – 80s at the Tower Hamlets Borough Archives on Thursday. David Granick was born in 1912
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Memories of the Tredegar Estate, Bow
Sunil Rana wrote in to ask if I’d made any progress on tracking down photos of the old Tredegar Estate of 1976 – 2003 (approx). He grew up on the estate, before it was knocked
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