Silvertown

Exploring the Olympic Borough of Newham.

Sweet tales from the Silvertown sugar factories.

More Londony trivia for a Monday morning.

East London conflagration leads to more transport woes.

East London’s been quite the hot spot for emerging urban creative talent in the last couple of years and set to join the likes of Tinchy Stryder and Chipmunk within that scene comes Talay Riley.

Could an explosion in East London really have damaged the Savoy Hotel?

A piece of Victorian railway engineering is being brought back from the dead as part of the Crossrail project. Built in 1878, the Connaught Tunnel was part of the railway between Stratford and North Woolwich, and passed along Silvertown, beneath the passage that connected the …

University of Westminster architecture student James Gardener has designed a series of interlinked islands that join together to form an inhabitable bridge across the River Thames between Woolwich and Silvertown. Called High Tide Street, the designs are purely conceptual and unlikely to be realised any …

Last week in Londonist, in numbers and the photo those numbers mysteriously translate into… 300 pounds per week (or near enough) to live in new student accommodation in Nido Spitalfields 100 contestable reasons why Boris Johnson is the bestest ever Mayor, ever 920 steps to …

Alcove in Victoria Park Designated one of the key routes into the 2012 Olympic site, Victoria Park is to benefit from a £10 million refurb, the biggest investment in the ‘park for the people of the East End’ since it was opened in the 1840s. …