London’s East End is like nowhere else, an ever-changing and inspiring scene that embraces, promotes and influences every aspect of culture in the capital; if it’s going to happen anywhere,
it’ll happen here first!
At the very forefront of what’s on-trend in clothes, hair, design, art, music and almost
everything else, this is absolutely where it’s at. From the famous East End markets of old and new
at Brick Lane, Broadway Market, Columbia Road and Spitalfields, to the achingly hip über-haunts
of The Boundary, Shoreditch House, Hoxton Square and all the rest of it, the streets and
buildings bulge at the seams with energy and life.
The beauful & legendary Victoria Park is home to London’s best music fesval, Lovebox, and best bonfire night. Further east, a different vibe at Mile End Park with its ecology centre, sports areas, art pavilion and monthly farmer’s market with Essexcaught fresh fish and ethically-reared local organic & rare-breed meats.
The O2, London’s number one all-singing, alldancing, all-weather mega-venue of gigs, cinema,
exhibions, food and all sorts is just along the river, less than 20 minutes by train or riverbus.
Coming up; in 2011 Wesield Straord City will open as the largest urban shopping centre in
Europe and hot on its heals in 2012, the East will become the centre of the sporng world for the
London Olympics, creang a legacy of incredible sporing venues from world-class architects,
beaufully restored and re-imagined canal paths and walkways into the park and a new
internaonal Eurostar station
Limehouse & Wapping
With a series of canals weaving their way through the neighbourhoods, punctuated by basins, marinas and the River Thames tracing a line along their enre southern embankment…
… E1 is drenched in history and defined by water. Riverside parks, hidden nature reserves,
Dickensian cobbled streets, garden squares, narrow boats, yachts, London’s oldest music hall and
some great places to eat, drink and hang out. The canals are one of London’s best kept secrets
and it’s possible to walk along the towpaths to Victoria Park, Camden, Paddington & Maida Vale.
In 2012 the waterways will form beauful pedestrian avenues to the Olympic Park at Straord.