Posts Tagged ‘Tower Hamlets’
Chrisp Street regeneration, gentrification of one of the poorest London markets, Tower Hamlets.
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2022 at 6:35 pm
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Work |
Chrisp Street,
gentrification,
London,
markets,
poor,
poorest,
Poplar,
poverty,
regeneration,
SOI Social Issues,
Tower Hamlets
Poplar Harca residents protesting 128% increase e-on energy bills, Aberfeldy Estate, Tower Hamlets.
© Jess Hurd 09/03/2022 London, UK.

Wednesday, March 9th, 2022 at 6:09 pm
Frontpage,
Protest |
128%,
Aberfeldy Estate,
e-on,
energy bills,
fuel poverty,
heat or eat,
increase,
London,
poor,
Poplar,
Poplar HARCA,
poverty,
protesting,
residents,
SOI Social Issues,
Tower Hamlets
Emergency services use a drone to assess damage during a tower block fire in The Crawford Building, Whitechapel High Street, Tower Hamlets.
© Jess Hurd 07/03/2022 London, UK.


Monday, March 7th, 2022 at 11:03 pm
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Work |
cordon,
Damage,
Emergency services,
fire,
Firefighters,
London,
police,
The Crawford Building,
Tower Block,
Tower Hamlets,
Whitechapel High Street
Workers at Sleaford House finish replacing flammable polystyrene cladding with a wool based material, post Grenfell. Poplar HARCA, Tower Hamlets, London, UK.
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022 at 8:29 pm
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bloc,
Building,
cladding,
E3,
flammable,
flats,
Grenfell,
Lab,
LBR,
material,
polystyrene,
Poplar,
Poplar HARCA,
removal,
replace,
scaffolders,
scaffolding,
Sleaford House,
Tower Block,
Tower Hamlets,
wool,
work,
workers
New Earth mural by Bow School students to highlight the environment to COP 26 leaders, East London.
Also a cover feature in the Sept issue of the National Union of Teachers Educate magazine.
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Thursday, September 23rd, 2021 at 5:27 pm
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Politics,
Protest,
Trade Union |
Bow School,
Climate,
Climate Change,
COP 26,
East London,
EDU Education,
Education,
Environment,
leaders,
London,
mural,
New Earth,
School,
Student,
students,
Tower Hamlets
20 Years of Stop the War – A Visual Retrospective
Really excited to be part of this exhibition celebrating 20 years of Stop the War with Banksy, Vivienne Westwood, David Gentleman, KennardPhillips & others.
8-19th September 10am-4pm every day until 19th Sept (except Mon 13th)
@ Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts, 181 Bow Rd, London, E3 2SJ
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Stop the War demonstration against attack on Iraq, Embankment, London. 15/02/2003
School kids take strike action against War with Iraq and march to Westminster. Bow, Tower Hamlets, East London. 20/03/2003
Parliament Square installation by anti war artist David Gentleman. Each drop of blood is meant to represent the estimated 100,000 lives lost in Iraq since the occupation began. Stop the War Coalition demonstration, Westminster. 18/03/2006
End The Blockade: Stop Arms Sales To Israel: Bring The War Criminals To Justice: Free Palestine. Hyde Park, London. 01/10/2009
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Friday, September 10th, 2021 at 12:22 pm
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20 Years of Stop the War - A Visual Retrospective,
art,
Bow,
Bow Arts,
David Gentleman,
East London,
Exhibition,
February 15th,
Free Palestine,
Gallery,
Installaation,
muslim,
Muslim Association of Great Britain,
Nunnery Gallery,
Palestine,
Parliament Square,
Peace,
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School kids,
Stop the War,
strike,
Student against the war,
students,
Tower Hamlets,
walkout,
women
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Slum Landlord Protest organised by Tower Hamlets Community Housing residents protesting about massive service charge increases for housing and appauling living conditions, Watney Market, East London.
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Thursday, July 15th, 2021 at 6:00 pm
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Protest |
affordable homes,
BAME,
Charges,
demonstration,
East London,
housing,
landlords,
London,
protest,
Rates,
residents,
service charge,
Slum,
THCH,
Tower Hamlets,
Tower Hamlets Community Housing
Police officer is stationed outside a cannabis factory crime scene in a residential tower block where the electrics were overloaded and caused cables to burn, Tower Hamlets, East London.
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2021 at 4:42 pm
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cannabis,
cannabis factory,
CLJ,
Crime,
Drugs,
East London,
growing,
Law,
plants,
police,
Tower Block,
Tower Hamlets
Last week I spent a day documenting Lansbury Lawrence Primary School in Tower Hamlets. I was intrigued to see what life was like on the Covid frontline and how restrictions were implimented. It also happened to be Keyworker Week.
The classes are in “bubbles” so teachers and children from the same class do not need to mask up, unless the teachers are in communal areas like the dinner hall.
I started with breakfast club at 8am, then I photographed the parents bringing their children to school, emerging through the fog. The first thing they have to do is sanitise their hands. Then it was a staff weekly briefing, online of course, from separate rooms. The staffroom had been repurposed as a music room and there were big X’s on the seats so staff don’t sit down. Another room is used as a staffroom with a through-flow of air and a table each, socially distanced.
There are different entrances and exits for classes to go out for breaks and children have their own box of sports equipment and games to play outside. The corridors are cold as winter begins to bite and windows have to remain open.
Lunchtime was forensic, with bubble tables cleaned down between each sitting and classes alternating between packed lunches in classrooms and hot meals in the canteen. All the staff wore masks or face shields. Meals are delivered to children who need them at home.
The day ended with an online school assembly.
Then home time!
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020 at 8:22 pm
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Children,
Covid,
East London,
Frontline,
Key Worker,
Key Worker Week,
Lansbury Lawrence Primary School,
London,
Pandemic,
Primary,
restrictions,
School,
Teachers,
Tower Hamlets
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Tower Hamlets council workers UNISON strike action against Tower Rewards, a contract imposing worse terms and conditions, Whitechapel, London.
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Monday, August 17th, 2020 at 1:32 pm
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dispute,
Essential Workers,
London,
social distancing,
strike,
Striking,
Tower Hamlets,
Tower Rewards,
trade union,
Trade union trades union,
trade unions,
trades union,
Unison,
Whitechapel
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Crane collapses in Watts Grove a working class estate in Bow, E3 killing one woman and injuring four and destroying two homes. Tower Hamlets, East London.
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2020 at 7:33 pm
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Helen bangs her saucepan from a tower block during a Thursday night clap for carers and the NHS during Covid 19, Tower Hamlets, East London.
East London ❤️ #NHS still clapping! #clapforthenhs #ClapForCarers#ThankYouNHS #coronavirusuk #coronavirus #clapforNHS
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Thursday, May 14th, 2020 at 7:47 pm
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clap for carers,
Corona,
Coronavirus,
Covid 19,
Covid_19,
East London,
Health,
London,
NHS,
Pensioner,
Pots and pans,
Tower Block,
Tower Hamlets,
Virus,
vunerable
East London ❤️ #NHS #clapforthenhs #ClapForCarers#ThankYouNHS #coronavirusuk #coronavirus #clapforNHS
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2020 at 8:34 pm
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clap for carers,
Corona,
Coronavirus,
Covid_19,
East London,
Health,
London,
NHS,
Rainbow,
Thank you NHS,
Tower Hamlets
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Friday, March 15th, 2019 at 4:24 pm
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attack,
Christchurch,
East,
East London Mosque,
Islam,
Islamic,
Islamophobia,
London,
Mayor,
muslim,
New Zealand,
No Place for Hate,
Rushanara Ali,
Sadiq Khan,
terrorism,
terrorist,
Tower Hamlets
Community activists erect spoof street signs highlighting the levels of local E2 drug dealing, apparently the cheapest heroin in Europe. The anti drugs street art campaign called the Columbia Road Cartel has been commissioned by the Weavers Community Action Group. Shoreditch, East London.
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Sunday, September 16th, 2018 at 8:42 am
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Anti Drugs,
art,
campaign,
Campaigning,
Columbia Road,
Columbia Road Cartel,
Crime,
dealing,
Drug Dealing,
Drugs,
E2,
East London,
London,
Protest demonsrtation,
Shoreditch,
street,
Tower Hamlets,
Weavers Community Action Group
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Grafton House where a twelfth floor fire is contained and brought under control by over 50 firefighters at a 22 story East End Homes tower block in Mile End. East London.
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Friday, June 29th, 2018 at 5:41 pm
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Bow,
East End Homes,
fire,
Firefighters,
Grafton House,
LFB,
London,
London Fire Brigade,
Mile End,
Tower Block,
Tower Hamlets
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2018 at 11:00 am
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100th Anniversary,
art,
Artist,
Bow,
Commemoration,
culture,
East London,
East London Federation of Suffragettes,
Heritage,
Heritage Trail,
Jerome Davenport,
London,
Lord Morpeth,
mural,
Old Ford Road,
Suffragette,
Suffragettes,
Sylvia Pankhurst,
Tower Hamlets,
Votes for Women
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2018 at 5:28 pm
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Annatomix,
art,
bee,
culture,
East London,
Ecology,
Graffiti,
London,
Save the Bee,
Save The Bees,
Tower Hamlets,
Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2016 at 5:43 pm
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Bank,
Banks,
Canary Wharf,
Docklands,
East London,
Fog,
Foggy,
London,
Tower Hamlets,
weather,
Winter
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Saturday, June 11th, 2016 at 9:06 pm
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90th,
Birthday,
Celebration,
community,
East End,
East London,
Eastender,
eastenders,
EastEndHomes,
flag,
Gnome,
Integration,
live,
London,
music,
Party,
Patriotic,
QEII,
Queen Elizabeth,
Royal,
Royalist,
Street Party,
Tower Hamlets,
Union Jack,
Working Class

Storm clouds gather over Canary Wharf, London Docklands and Poplar. East London.
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Sunday, April 10th, 2016 at 11:50 am
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Banks,
Canary Wharf,
City,
cloud,
Clouds,
Docklands,
East London,
Harca,
London,
Poplar,
Social Housing,
storm,
Tower Hamlets,
weather

Father and daughter, wearing a party dress, walk through a green space on a sunny winters day. Tower Hamlets, East London.
© Jess Hurd
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Friday, March 4th, 2016 at 1:47 pm

Storm clouds gather over Canary Wharf and the financial buildings in the London Docklands. Poplar, East London.
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Monday, June 22nd, 2015 at 2:58 pm
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Bank,
Bank of America,
Banking,
Banks,
Barclays,
Canary Wharf,
Citi,
City,
crisis,
Docklands,
Financial,
HSBC,
JP Morgan,
London,
storm,
Tower Hamlets,
weather