History & nostalgia Archives

Weathering incendiary bombs, a flood of bobbies and a cut-throat recession The Peacock Pub has outlived even its street name.

Prime Minister Clement Attlee: The Mayor and MP of Stepney who founded the NHS

Post-war Prime Minister Clement Attlee saw Stepney as his spiritual home and his horror at the squalor in the East

Rudolf Rocker. Source, unknown

Once known as Mile End Old Town, Stepney Green Gardens was a strip of green space saved from developers back

Miriam Moses gave her life to the people of Stepney, pioneering what was then Tower Hamlet’s future, and now its

Joseph Merrick, nicknamed The Elephant Man, resided at 259 Whitechapel Road in Tower Hamlets.

From Huguenot silk weavers to Bangladeshi leather makers, the newly named Weaver line celebrates the migrants behind the textile industry

Once the East End’s most upmarket shopping destination and now known as Dept W, the peculiar-looking building belies a feud

Could this most recent theory on the identity of Jack the Ripper end the glorification of male violence? Drawing on

It was once the world’s largest brewery played host to cabinet dinners and was at one stage, run by one

One woman overcame all odds, including a World War, to set up the veterinary charity that has now treated over

Watney Market is a staple of Whitechapel. Its history involves the Blitz, stalled developments and Sainsbury’s.