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. …
This Week In London’s History Monday – 19th January 1917: A fire breaks out at a munitions factory in Silvertown, East London, igniting some 50 tonnes of TNT. The resulting explosion kills 73 people, injures some 400 more, and damages as many as 70,000 buildings …
Crowd-surfing in a mosh pit down the Astoria or Brixton Academy is the closest most in London can readily get to the waves and Waikiki lifestyle. That could be about to change: plans are afoot for a permanent outdoor surf machine in East London. As …
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