eastlondonhistory.com

Eastlondonhistory.com began as a collection of my pieces on the people, places and strange events of that part of London bounded by the City to the west, the River Thames to the south, the River Lea to the east, and Hackney to the north … the East End of London and synonymous with the modern London borough of Tower Hamlets. The core of the material is the pieces I’ve been writing each week for East End Life, a weekly newspaper published the council, since 1996. When I started, the question was ‘how do you find something new to write about the East End each week … now the question is ‘how do we ever catch up with the backlog of stories’. That’s partly what this update of the site, to the considerably more usable platform of a Wordpress blog, is about. It enables us to post all those pieces that never quite make it to the pages of East End Life … and strays off in search of related titbits about London, its news, museums, shows and other arcana. We even stray beyond the boundaries of Tower Hamlets.

But at heart it’s those history pieces - some 600 or more of them now and counting. As ever, we’re interested in YOUR stories about the East End of London … so keep the comments coming.

John Rennie, March 2008