This is Home: Luba Lukhanina, a Ukrainian refugee in Poplar
Luba Lukhanina, who fled Ukraine after the Russian invasion in 2022, reminisces about her childhood along the Dnieper River, the
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Culture
Your guide to the people, passions, culture and heritage that have formed Poplar’s identity. Discover the communities and cultures of our neighbourhood, its creative industries, social history and personal stories; the heritage that has created our identity, and what we are passionate about.
The reluctant housing hero: how octogenarian Derrick Cutler has campaigned tirelessly for his neighbours
From warehouse worker to housing advocate, octogenarian Derrick Cutler has seen Limehouse transform in real-time and fought on behalf of
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Streets in the sky: The utopian dreams of Poplar’s social housing
The first in a four-part series about the threat to Poplar’s pioneering social housing, we look at how post-war architects
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USSR vs the world: the summer that chess met politics on the Isle of Dogs
Looking back at the unlikely connection between the Isle of Dogs and the Cold War’s most important chess match of
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This is Home: Sheshe, a French-Algerian in Poplar
After nearly a decade in London, Sheshe is still in love with the city, and prouder than ever of her
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Architecture of Pharmacies exhibition is not prescriptive about health
A new display at the Bromley-by-Bow Centre connects physical space to well-being and invites you to reimagine health from the
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Watching over Limehouse: the secret history of St Anne’s Church
St Anne’s Church guards the secrets of Limehouse from the shadows, but this overlooked Hawksmoor gem is a treasure trove
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Pop-up Repair Café workshops to be held across the borough throughout 2024
Bromley-by-Bow Centre has teamed up with other charities in the borough to launch a programme of pop-up Repair Cafés helping
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Beyond the Denim: Poplar’s Ian Berry on art and community
Ian Berry: Why he no longer wears denim and how in his art “The constant thing, taking away the portraits,
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This is Home: Chinese in Poplar
In our series celebrating the diversity of Tower Hamlets, we spoke to Eric from Beijing. Now running a Chinese restaurant
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From Blackwall to Jamestown: England’s first colony in America
When you think of the United States of America, Blackwall may not be the first thing that jumps to mind.
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Ping pong, calligraphy and tai-chi for a new generation of East End Chinese
Limehouse’s Chinatown may have relocated to Soho but the Chinese Association of Tower Hamlets still provides tea, table tennis, calligraphy
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