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If the sun's out, this market is one of the most delightful in London. Columbia Road is just a single narrow street of 1860s shops and houses
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Columbia Road Flower Market
Columbia RoadIf the sun's out, this market is one of the most delightful in London. Columbia Road is just a single narrow street of 1860s shops and houses
Set inside a graceful run of 18th-century almshouses with delightful gardens, this tranquil, creeper-clad “Museum of the Home” presents a chronological parade of period rooms
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Museum of the Home
136 Kingsland RoadSet inside a graceful run of 18th-century almshouses with delightful gardens, this tranquil, creeper-clad “Museum of the Home” presents a chronological parade of period rooms
Its subject is city life by the River Thames from the Romans onwards, with particularly strong exhibitions on the era of sugar and slavery, the 19th-century heyday when London was the largest port
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Museo de los Docklands de Londres
Hertsmere RoadIts subject is city life by the River Thames from the Romans onwards, with particularly strong exhibitions on the era of sugar and slavery, the 19th-century heyday when London was the largest port
The conventionally bleak image of Hackney is joyously usurped by this charming National Trust property that comes with genial staff, a tranquil tea-room and second-hand books and plants for sale.
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Sutton House
2-4 Homerton High StThe conventionally bleak image of Hackney is joyously usurped by this charming National Trust property that comes with genial staff, a tranquil tea-room and second-hand books and plants for sale.
high quality arts bookshop and a fine-dining restaurant as well as nine galleries showing leading artists and work drawn from important public and private collections. Nearest tube is Aldgate East.
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Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Sthigh quality arts bookshop and a fine-dining restaurant as well as nine galleries showing leading artists and work drawn from important public and private collections. Nearest tube is Aldgate East.
This five-storey terraced house has been theatrically dressed to create intimate tableaux portraying domestic life in Spitalfields from the 18th century on
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Dennis Severs' House
18 Folgate StThis five-storey terraced house has been theatrically dressed to create intimate tableaux portraying domestic life in Spitalfields from the 18th century on
As well as bird reserves and ecology parks, you can visit Trinity Buoy Wharf, at its southernmost tip, which has an experimental lighthouse built in 1864
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Autoridad del Parque Regional del Valle de Lee
As well as bird reserves and ecology parks, you can visit Trinity Buoy Wharf, at its southernmost tip, which has an experimental lighthouse built in 1864
Opened in 1877, this canalside warehouse provided education, clothing and meals for more than a thousand “ragged” children in Mile End for over thirty years. Now it's a museum on those harsh times
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Ragged School Museum
46-50 Copperfield RdOpened in 1877, this canalside warehouse provided education, clothing and meals for more than a thousand “ragged” children in Mile End for over thirty years. Now it's a museum on those harsh times
This Bethnal Green outpost of the Victoria & Albert Museum houses an engaging collection of toys, games, furniture and clothing as used by children from 1600 to the present day
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V&A Museum of Childhood
Cambridge Heath RoadThis Bethnal Green outpost of the Victoria & Albert Museum houses an engaging collection of toys, games, furniture and clothing as used by children from 1600 to the present day
Built for the London 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, this still-evolving park covers 650 acres and serves many purposes. It is a place to relax, with parkland, wildlife and waterways.
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Parque Olímpico Reina Isabel
Built for the London 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, this still-evolving park covers 650 acres and serves many purposes. It is a place to relax, with parkland, wildlife and waterways.
Food Scene
Built behind a row of 1730s houses, it is the world's oldest surviving grand music hall and still in use as a performance space. Now in a picturesque state of decay.
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Wilton's Music Hall
1 Graces AlyBuilt behind a row of 1730s houses, it is the world's oldest surviving grand music hall and still in use as a performance space. Now in a picturesque state of decay.
Chicken Shop & Dirty Burger Whitechapel
27a Mile End RdGreat vibe and tasty food
The Canary
61 Old Bethnal Green RdCool owners, great food and awesome interior
Drinks & Nightlife
Passing Clouds
1 Richmond RoadEpic tunes and welcoming crowd
Always got a great night on with guaranteed good DJs. Always popular with a cool buzz.
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Queen of Hoxton
1 Curtain RdAlways got a great night on with guaranteed good DJs. Always popular with a cool buzz.
Sightseeing
Awesome market with food stalls on the weekend. Also some really funky restaurants and bars to explore
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Broadway Market
Broadway MarketAwesome market with food stalls on the weekend. Also some really funky restaurants and bars to explore
Parks & Nature
Massive park that is well looked after. A much better alternative to the crowded Hyde Park
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Pavilion Cafe
Old Ford RoadMassive park that is well looked after. A much better alternative to the crowded Hyde Park
Shopping
Cool permanent pop up shops with some funky independent shops
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BOXPARK Shoreditch
2-10 Bethnal Green RdCool permanent pop up shops with some funky independent shops
Getting Around
Whitechapel Station
263c Whitechapel RdDistrict tube line, and Hammersmith & City Line
Bethnal Green (Stop D) station
Central tube line