Discover #London's East End facts. Articles on East End heritage, history & people. I grew up in 1970s #eastlondon - Malcolm Oakley
Canary Wharf is a financial district in London. It is located on the Isle of Dogs in the East End. The area was once all industrial docklands.
Exhibited as a freak for much of his adult life, Joseph Merrick's time in London's East End may well have been the happiest of his adult life.
If you're visiting Walthamstow in East London, you can easily pass a few hours in its local museum, Vestry House. This charming building is Grade II listed.
Billingsgate is London's best known fresh produce markets and its oldest wholesale market. The leading inland fish market in the UK.
Learn about the history of Ilford in East London. Ilford has witnessed the discovery of mammoth fossils to the development as a garden suburb.
Learn how the DLR (Docklands Light Railway), a modern and innovative transport system, transformed the economy and landscape of East London.
Most of Ilford in Essex was built up around the late 1800s, during the Victorian style of architecture. Photos of Coventry Road Ilford.
London is the iconic capital city of the United Kingdom. A vibrant and lively destination, filled with beautiful architecture and steeped in history.
Discover the rich and diverse culinary heritage of East London, from traditional pie, mash and jellied eels to exotic cuisines from around the world..
London's Ikey Solomon, a well-known figure in the Houndsditch area in Victorian times, certainly qualifies as an infamous East End character.
There has been a church at Bow, East London for over 700 years. Even after restoration works parts of its current buildings date back to the 1490s.
Visit the churchyard of the Church of St John the Evangelist in Stratford and you will see a memorial to the Stratford Martyrs. Burned at the stake in 1556.
September 1878 the Princess Alice, a pleasure steamer sank on the River Thames at North Woolwich East London. Over 700 people died that day.
The Thames Tunnel, built between 1825 and 1843 was the first underwater tunnel in the world. It spans the River Thames between Rotherhithe and Wapping.
In Fore Street one of the largest wholesale textile warehouses in the City went up in flames between December 29th / 30th, 1940.
My grandfather worked for a company based in Calvin Street, Shoreditch, East London. He was a lift engineer and electrician. Here he is busy working away.
Trinity Buoy Wharf is now an arts centre and creative community hub, described as the most exciting arts quarter in the Docklands area of East London.
The Ring Southwark was built by Rev. Rowland Hill, eccentric revivalist in 1783, he built it so there were no corners. Destroyed in 1940 WW2.
The 1950s and 1960s saw a newer type of criminal come to the fore, with organised gangs led by East London locals such as The Kray twins.
Following its restoration, Christ Church is one of the finest churches in the East End and probably London. Visit If you are in Spitalfields.