March 2017

LOVEEAST 

M A G A Z I N E 

March 2017 ISSUE 36 

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Marbling, binding, printing 

The beautiful art of book-making 

The Artskickers Awards 

Nominate your artskicking heroes now 

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Celebrating the unsung heroes 

of East London’s arts scene 

Deadline for entries Monday 6 March 2017 

Are you an Artskicker? 

do you know an Artskicker? 

We want to hear from you! 

WWW.ARTSKICKERSAWARDS.COM 

JUDGES INCLUDE: ✦ SHARON D. CLARKE MBE Olivier Award winner and star of Hackney Panto ✦ 

DEBORAH CURTIS Artist, founder of The House of Fairytales ✦ DENISE GOUGH winner 2016 

Best Actress Olivier Award ✦ SUSIE MCKENNA Hackney Empire ✦ JOHN MULHOLLAND editor, 

The Observer ✦ RENNELL SHAW Musician ✦ LEMN SISSAY MBE Poet & Chancellor of University 

of Manchester ✦ GAVIN TURK Artist ✦ ZABOU Street Artist ✦ 

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Welcome to your local magazine 

Dear neighbours 

I can't quite believe it's three years since I 

published the first edition of E9 Magazine. It's 

changed a bit since then... not least the title. What 

became LoveEast continues to evolve and is a 

very different magazine to the one that dropped 

through letterboxes back in 2014. 

The biggest change was the design. Ilka Dickens 

did me proud there, and she continues to forge 

ahead with her beautiful creations. You can see 

more of her and other makers' work at the Urban 

Makers' pop-up shop at Fount London (see p21). 

It would be great to get some feedback from 

readers, so please do drop me a line if you feel 

the urge to tell me what you like or what you'd like 

to see in future editions. 

A fitting gift to celebrate LoveEast's third birthday 

is our involvement with the #Artskickers Awards. 

This is the amazing brainchild of Angie Gough 

(aka @TheArtsCrusader), and its mission is to big 

up individuals and organisations who are doing 

fantastic things to engage people with the arts in 

East London. Head over to p13 to read all about 

how to enter, who the judges are and what's in 

store for the lucky winners. Best put your skates 

on, though, nominations close on 6 March. 

Julie 

Julie Daniels 

T: 07752 288405 

E: julie@nutshellpublications.co.uk 

www.nutshellpublications.co.uk 

C O N T E N T S 

6 

Meet one of East 

London's nastiest 

criminals 

10 

The beautiful art of 

book-making 

13 

Calling all #artskickers. 

Get those nominations 

in now! 

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Funerals – East 

London-style 

30 

Crushed avocado on 

sourdough: a yummy 

Mother's Day treat 

Twitter: @LoveEastMag 

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Instagram: @loveeastmag 

Cover photo: London Centre for Book Arts 

To advertise in LoveEast please call 07752 288405 or email julie@nutshellpublications.co.uk for further information. 

Deadline for the April edition is 10 March (please allow an extra two days if design is required). Nutshell Publications 

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East life 

Search for the 

smoking gun 

Sophie Baggott meets Julian Woodford, author of the 

thrilling crime biography The Boss of Bethnal Green 

Image: George Woodford 

Cast aside Sherlock, there's 

a sharper detective in town – 

historian extraordinaire Julian 

Woodford. 

Not only has he exposed the 

East End's vilest gangster – 

Joseph Merceron, who hid in 

history’s shadows until now – 

but Julian has also tracked down 

long-lost relics (including a 

pistol, pictured above, fired in a 

royal assassination attempt). 

What’s more, he has that vital 

ounce of empathy missing in 

Baker Street's has-been. 

Best of all, Julian hasn't left it to 

a mere sidekick to record his 

findings. No offence, Watson. 

Julian has laid bare his 

research in a thrilling 

biography: The Boss of Bethnal 

Green. 

“The more I found out about 

Merceron, the more I realised 

how truly evil he was,” Julian 

says. 

Merceron, aka the 

“Boss”, was born 

in 1764 to a 

pawnbroker 

and property merchant. The 

1800s saw him evolve from a 

greedy landlord into a parish 

“blood-sucker”, with exploits 

ranging from bullock-racing to 

stripping a severely disabled girl 

of all she owned. 

Ultimately, after decades of 

milking poor relief funds as a 

local government treasurer, 

he faced a trial for fraud and 

perjury. 

It was in these legal transcripts 

that Julian learned about 

Merceron’s cruel embezzlement 

of Mary Cheesman, termed an 

“idiot” for her mental disabilities. 

"Surely his worst crime," Julian 

says. 

On top of this, Merceron had 

his half-sister incarcerated in an 

asylum. 

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Imagine a concoction of the 

notorious East End gangster 

Kray twins and fraudster Robert 

Maxwell, then you’ve got an 

inkling of Merceron’s character. 

In the early 1900s, husbandand-wife 

sociologists Sidney 

and Beatrice Webb wrote what 

little description existed of 

Merceron’s crimes. 

Their dry passages didn’t cut it 

for Julian, though, who set out 

to investigate further and pen 

a richer, justifiably appalling 

narrative. 

Julian’s journey towards 

publishing The Boss of Bethnal 

Green is itself a dynamic story, 

full of coincidences and nearmisses. 

My meeting with him even 

conjured up an odd twist of 

its own. We realised that the 

would-be assassin of King 

George III, James Hadfield, had 

been sectioned in Bedlam – 

which had once stood right 

where we sat in Liverpool 

Street. 

Hadfield had been deemed "not 

guilty" of trying to kill the king 

due to mental instability. 

"It was the first record of such a 

court verdict," Julian says. 

His pistol found its way into 

Rocque map of Brick Lane area 

Merceron’s hands, as did most 

objects of any worth in East 

London at the time. Eventually 

it reached Merceron’s living 

descendants. 

Through The Times’ obituaries, 

Julian came across a handful of 

family members. 

Merceron’s great-greatgranddaughter 

was just shy of 

her 94th birthday when he got 

in touch with her. He recalls 

how this extraordinary lady, 

Susan Kendall, had said simply: 

“You’d better hurry over to 

Wiltshire, I’m 93!”. 

Susan hoped Julian’s book might 

lift what seemed to be a “family 

curse”, so put him in touch 

with her nephew – a military 

chaplain. 

Together they hauled an old 

tin chest down from the attic. 

This mysterious box opened 

to reveal the Hadfield's gun, 

once a treasured possession of 

Merceron himself. 

Over a decade in the making, 

The Boss of Bethnal Green is the 

kind of book that makes you 

contemplate the city where so 

many millions live. 

How many more strange flukes 

or branches of family trees lurk 

around the corner? What other 

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The Boss of Bethnal Green is published by 

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Bulldoze the office towers. 

If East London were human who would it be? 

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East London makers 

Every trick 

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Christine Preisig visits the UK's first – and so far only – 

open-access book arts centre in Hackney Wick 

Four years ago, artists Simon Goode and Ira 

Yonemura opened the London Centre for Book 

Arts (LCBA) in Fish Island, Hackney Wick. 

The centre provides a space where artists, 

designers and hobbyists can use the specialised 

and often hard-to-come-by equipment needed 

for making books. 

It was after Simon finished his BA in 

book arts when he found out that 

outside of school, there was nowhere 

he could access the machinery and 

tools needed to continue making art in 

book form. 

Book arts centres have a long-standing tradition 

in the US so Simon set out on a three-month 

trip to visit some of the institutions there. What 

he found inspired him and Ira (who he met on 

his travels) so much that they decided to open 

Britain’s first and only self-funded, open-access 

book arts centre. 

“Here in London – mainly in West London – there 

is this funny, niche bookbinding culture," says 

Simon. 

"They are very strict traditionalists who make 

books that are very, very traditional and 

expensive. But here at the LCBA, we want people 

to make their own books the way they want to. 

We want the widest possible audience in our 

centre.” 

The two artists’ motivation is to promote 

book arts, often thought to be a dying 

craft, as a lively and vibrant art form that 

can take many shapes. 

The centre encourages self-publishing 

and supports a creative community via 

collaborations and education. 

Workshops taught there include the traditional 

book-making crafts such as letterpress printing 

and bookbinding but also paper marbling, 

boxmaking and foil block printing. 

Book art is interdisciplinary and involves a 

wide range of techniques. No wonder a lot of 

equipment is needed for it. 

Ira and Simon have been accumulating it over the 

years. Some of it is ancient and some – like the 

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# 

Three of our prestigious judges, above, and below, Freida Pinto and Russell Tovey show some artskicking love 

Nominate your #artskicking heroes now, says Angie Gough 

Woohooo! Nominations are 

rolling in for the #Artskickers 

Awards and the prizes just get 

better and better. Here’s what 

you or the #Artskicker in your 

life could WIN just by getting 

involved… 

Shortlisted nominees will be 

invited to join Zabou, Gavin 

Turk, Renell Shaw, Susie 

McKenna, Denise Gough, 

Deborah Curtis, Sharon D Clarke 

and the rest of our judges for 

a right fancy ceremony on 

Wednesday, 29 March, at the 

Stage EC2. It’s happening on the 

site of Shakespeare's original 

Curtain Theatre in Shoreditch, 

which is pretty dang special. 

Winners will receive a one-ofa-kind 

award – created by local 

artist Caroline McCambridge 

– and customised by street 

artist and judge Zabou. A totally 

original work of art. 

Winners will also be featured 

right here in LoveEast 

magazine and rewarded with 

a specially tailored bundle 

of goodies donated by our 

judges, sponsors and a host 

of generous East London 

businesses who happen to love 

#Artskickers. 

We’ve got … 

Vouchers * Theatre tickets * 

Flowers * Sparkly Stuff * Coffee 

* An actual real life Social 

Media Manager * Art Supplies * 

Once-in-a-lifetime experiences 

involving famous people 

(shhhhh....) 

Selected FUTURE ARTISTs (ages 

5-12 and 12-18) will participate 

in their very own exhibition or in 

a rooftop concert at Bootstrap 

Gallery in Dalston. What a way 

to launch a career! 

ALL nominees will feature on 

the #Artskickers Wall of Fame in 

Shoreditch after the event. 

What are you waiting for? 

For all the details and to 

nominate now head to 

artskickersawards.com 

Swoosh! 

To see who's been nominated 

and to find out more follow 

@TheArtsCrusader on Instagram, 

Facebook and Twitter 



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CGI images: The Stage 

The stage is 

set for the 

#Artskickers 

Awards 

The Stage's 37-floor apartment block, along with raised park and art wall 

Can art and property development live happily together? 

In this case they can, writes Julie Daniels 

I recently met Gary Conway, head of marketing 

at The Stage – a new residential, office and retail 

complex being built on the site of Shakespeare's 

Curtain Theatre in Shoreditch. 

The Stage is a stupendous £750m Shoreditch 

complex developed by Galliard Homes. Sitting 

in their beautiful marketing suite, the glamour 

of where I am is countered by the real downto-earthness 

of the man I'm talking to. Gary's 

Stepney-born dad was one of the founders of 

Galliard and East London is still very much part of 

the company's DNA. 

There’s an openness about Gary and his 

colleagues that you wouldn’t expect from such 

a big developer. It’s still very much a family affair 

and they seem genuinely thrilled to be giving 

something back to the community. "We like 

relationships," says Gary. "We're very 'what you 

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# 

see is what you get' and we're the least corporate 

animal you'll ever meet." 

The Stage are the main sponsors of the 

#Artskickers Awards. If you're a regular LoveEast 

reader you'll know all about the awards and their 

very talented creator Angie Gough (aka 

@TheArtsCrusader). It's her (and LoveEast's) 

mission to celebrate the many unsung heroes of 

East London’s arts scene. 

It’s fair to say that there can be a certain 

scepticism about a property company sponsoring 

an arts award, but the development plan speaks 

for itself. 

Galliard (along with partners Cain Hoy, McCourt, 

and Estate Office Shoreditch) are building The 

Stage – 412 apartments, offices, retail and leisure 

spaces, including a rooftop public park – in 

London's hippest location. But the jewel in the 

community crown is that they are contributing to 

the preservation of one of England’s cultural gems 

– the remains of Shakespeare’s Curtain Theatre. 

In the midst of the sparkly new buildings will be a 

public square to show off the recently excavated 

1577 Elizabethan playhouse – the place where 

Henry V was first seen, Shakespeare performed 

and Elizabeth I visited. 

The public square and sunken amphitheatre 

The Curtain Theatre under excavation 

Photo: Cain Hoy 

A heritage centre will display artefacts found when 

the theatre was being excavated, and there will a 

glass viewing platform above the remains, as well 

as a sunken amphitheatre providing a venue for 

performances. 

So when we approached The Stage for help with 

the #Artskickers Awards, they were well and truly 

in the culture groove and wanted to do all they 

could. This includes giving over the Shoreditch 

Streetart Wall (now owned by the developers) 

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to showcase nominees, hosting a glittering 

ceremony for the winners at the glamorous Stage 

HQ and generally giving financial help, practical 

support and great publicity. 

"So what's in it for The Stage," I asked. "Well, we 

really liked Angie," says Gary. "She's very inspiring 

– and it provides us with some real culture which 

is lacking until Shakespeare arrives! To be honest 

we thought 'Wow, this is amazing for us'." 

The feeling is definitely mutual. 

Deadline for entries: 9.30am, 6 March 2017. 

To hear from our judges, find out about prizes 

and keep in touch with the #Artskickers, follow 

@TheArtsCrusader on Instagram, Facebook and 

Twitter. 


What's on in March 

MON TUE WED 

Weekly 

Gymnastics class, 

5.15-7.15pm, £4.50, 

for ages 2-15, YMCA, 

642 Forest Road 

Get fit, 6.30-8.30pm, 

Matchroom Stadium, 

Oliver Road, for men 

35-65 

Tumble Tots, 1.30- 

3pm, 6-24 months, 

Comberton Children's 

Centre, E5 9PU 

6 

London Spelling Bee, 

7pm, £5, The Book 

Club, Shoreditch, 

adults only 

6-7 

Collaborative 

performance 

composition workshop, 

10am-1pm, £35/50, 

two days, Chisenhale 

Dance Space 

13 

Learn to sew, 6.30- 

9.30pm, £90, make 

pyjamas, TS Studio, 

thethriftystitcher.co.uk 

20 

Wanstead Backgammon 

Society, 7.30-10pm, 

FREE, The Duke of 

Wanstead, all abilities 

welcome 

Wiggly Jigglers, 1pm. 

£4 drop-in, for ages 

0-2, Rich Mix 

Weekly 

London two-pound 

drawing class, 

2pm, Frizzante, 

Hackney City Farm, 

drawingclass@ 

monstersmith.com 

7 

Shhh Dating Party 

East, 7-9.30pm, from 

£18, Farr's School of 

Dancing, E8 

Baby-friendly fitness 

class, 11-11.45am, £96 

for 12-wk block, Unit 

8 Broadway Market 

Comedy show, 

7.30-10pm, £15, 

Queen Mary 

University, Mile End 

Road 

7-18 

Frankenstein, £10- 

20, new production, 

Wilton's Music Hall, 

wiltons.org.uk 

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Just Another Girl On 

The IRT, 7pm, Genesis 

Cinema 

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Lil' Pillow Talk, 

7-9pm, knitting party, 

Hoxton Square Bar, 

woolandthegang.com 

Chatterbooks reading 

group, 4-5pm, ages 

8-12, Clapton library, 

020 8356 7480 

1 

Morning Gloryville, 

6.30am, £12-18, Oval 

Space, brownpaper 

tickets.com/event/ 

2856868 

Me For Queen, 7.30pm, 

£5, Me For Queen 

piano soul folk gig, 

Paper Vintage, 352 

Mare Street 

1-2 

Fairy stories and 

traditional tales of film, 

10.30am, £1-3, Rich 

Mix, part of World 

Book Week 

8 

Terraza Takeover: 

Castilla y León, 

6.30pm, £20, tapas 

& wine experience, 

Tapas Brindisa, 

Shoreditch 

15 

Middle Eastern cookery 

course, 6-9pm, £75, 

E5 Bakehouse, 

Hackney, e5bakehouse. 

com 

22 

Ingeenium's Wild 

Things, 8pm, £8/10, 

performed by Victoria 

Park Singers, St 

John of Jerusalem, 

intothewild.bpt.me 

29 

Coffee morning, 

10.30am-12pm, Vicky 

Park community 

centre, 5 Gore Road 

THU 

2 

Lindy hop class, 8-9pm, 

£9/ £35 x5, Chats Palace, 

cookiesjam.com 

Throwback Thursday, 

7pm, FREE, Dalston 

Social, 8 Stoke 

Newington Road 

9 

Girlhood, 6.30pm at 

Museum of Childhood 

16 

Gascoyne Lives, 6.30-8pm, 

FREE, film screening 

exploring community life, 

Hackney Museum 

16 

Spitalfields' Nippers, 

6.30-8pm. A talk by The 

Gentle Author, Museum 

of Childhood 

Swing Your Heart Out, 

6.30-10pm, £5, Geffrye 

Museum geffrye-museum. 

org.uk 

16-18 

London Beer Week, £10, 

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Bar Counter launch party, 

7-11.30pm, FREE, Red 

Gates, 12 Stour Road, E3 

Walk over hot coals and 

broken glass, £25. Are 

you brave enough for 

the St Joseph Hospice's 

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Registration fee with 

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What to do 

Dancing 

Toddler street dance, kids' ballet, Glee Club and 

acrobatics. There's a whole lot of fantastic things 

going on at stratford-circus.com 

Try some ballet and contemporary dance 

classes with the East London Dance School 

at the Chisenhale Dance Space in Bow. 

eastlondondanceschool.co.uk 

Get those kids hopping, skipping and jumping at 

Chisenhale Dance Space's Creative Movement 

Classes. chisenhaledancespace.co.uk/creativemovement/ 

Ballet for children at the Hackney Forge on 

Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Call Mafalda on 

07550 722 693 for details: mafaldaballetblog. 

blogspot.com 

Museums 

Lots of great things to see at the Museum of 

Childhood, including a talk by the Gentle Author 

on 16 March about Spitalfields' Nippers by Horace 

Warner. 

Become a Geffrye Explorer! Fun family activities at 

the Geffrye Museum every Saturday and Sunday, 

12.30pm to 4.30pm. 

Music and Drama 

Piccolo singing, music & dancing for babies and 

toddlers runs every Wednesday and Friday, V&A 

building, Victoria Park. Toddler class 10am, baby 

class 11am. Drop-in. Stefanie 07708 451314. 

Baby Music Class in the Straw Bale building at 

Hackney City Farm. 10-10.45am and 11-11.45am. 

babymusicclass.co.uk 

Diddy Bugs. Try Hackney Forge on a Wednesday 

morning. Cbeebies actress Samantha Seager runs 

acting classes for little tots. actingbugs.co.uk 

Follow us on 

Join Cbeebies actor Samantha Seager 

(Bobby, Me Too!) and her team 

for fun filled, interactive drama 

and storytelling sessions 

for 2-5 year olds at one of our 

classes in Stoke Newington, 

Clapton or Victoria Park 

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See www.actingbugs.co.uk 

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and to book a free taster class 

Music with Maddy at the Hackney Museum every 

from 10am-11am. Reading Lane, E8. 

Pottery 

Every Sunday there are drop-in children's pottery 

sessions at Hackney City Farm. There's no need to 

book, just come along ready to get messy.11am- 

1pm and 2-4pm. £5. Goldsmith's Row, E2. 

Hand-throwing classes at Wonderland 

Ceramics every Friday evening. The classes are 

suitable for ages 12+. 6-9pm, £20 per session. 

wonderlandceramics.com 

Tumbling & Climbing 

Tumbling Bay playground, north of the Olympic 

Park: rock pools, tree houses, wobbly bridges. 

To the south there's the gigantic red rocks to 

climb, oversized swings and giant sandpits. Then 

walk over to Here East canalside for some light 

refreshments at The Breakfast Club or any of the 

other great eateries springing up there. 

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with the kids 

Stories 

Storytime for the under 5s at Victoria Park 

Community Centre every Tuesday from 10am to 

11.30am. 5 Gore Road, E9. FREE. 

Yoga for babies... 

Baby-focused classes using massage, classical 

yoga postures, stretches and balances adapted 

to their stage of growth. Fridays, Royal Inn on the 

Park, E9.10.45am-11.45am. £6.50. Karen: firsttouchmassage@hotmail.co.uk, 

07902 227 669. 

...and their mums 

Yoga for Mums and Babies, every Monday at 

10.30am with tea and biscuits afterwards. 

Hackney Forge, E9. 07958 645 978 or email 

clare@clareday-yoga.co.uk 

Riding 

From Lee Valley Riding Centre on Lea Bridge 

Road leevalleypark.org.uk/go/horseriding/ to 

aldersbrookriding.co.uk, where the children can 

go on a 'riding picnic' in Wanstead Flats. The 

Docklands Equestrian Centre in Beckton is also a 

great place docklandsequestriancentre.com 

Swimming 

London Fields Lido offer swimming lessons and 

stages 3-8 swimming classes. Go to betterlessons. 

org.uk for details. Plus Mile End Leisure Centre, 

York Hall or the gorgeous Aquatics Centre, QE 

Olympic Park. 

Events may change so please do check on times/ 

availability via the websites or phone numbers 

provided after each entry. 

Wonderland Ceramics 

Time to be Creative 

237 Victoria Park 

Road 

E9 7HD 

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Ceramic Café, 

Pottery Painting, 

unique gifts, Children's 

Birthday Parties, team 

building, and lots of fun 

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info@wonderlandceramics.com 

Ballet Classes 

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Victoria Park Village 

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What's on in March 

FRI SAT SAT 

SUN 

Weekly 

Pilates in the park, 

11.30am, £10,.The 

Clubhouse, Vicky Park 

Children's games club, 

4-5pm, for ages 5+, 

Dalston CLR library 

Drop-in rucksack music 

group, 10-11am, £4.50 

per child, for 0-4yrs, 

Springfield Park café, 

Clapton 

3-5 

Vikings & Valkyries: A 

Puppet Project, FREE, 

Leytonstone library, 

wfculture.eventbrite. 

com 

3 

Hackney table tennis 

club, 7-9pm, over- 

16s, Clissold Leisure 

Centre 

World Book Day, Ann 

Tayler Children's 

Centre, 1-13 Triangle 

Road, E8 

Public tours, 12-1pm, 

FREE, The Machines 

Room, 45 Vyner Street 

17-19 

Talented Art Fair, 

6pm, from £6, Old 

Truman Brewery, 

talentedartfair.com 

31 

Johnny Flynn & The 

Sussex Wit, £17, 7pm, 

St John-at-Hackney 

church 

Weekly 

Yoga glow, 10am, £10, 

under the neon lights, 

God's Own Junkyard, 

Walthamstow 

Walking for health, 

10.30-11.30am, FREE, 

no booking required, 

meet at GP surgery, 

45 Wanstead Place, 

E11 

4 

Paint a mural, 10am- 

4.30pm, graffiti 

workshop, from £21, 

Hackney Downs 

studios, hackneyarts. 

com 

British Military Fitness, 

8.45-9.45am, FREE, 

meet at Victoria Park 

Royal Gate East 

HoopTone fitness 

class, 1-2pm, £10, 

Shoreditch Town Hall, 

hoops provided 

Saturday Storytime, 

2-4pm, FREE,. Harrow 

Green community 

library, for 3-11yrs, 

with snacks 

11 

Brewery tour and 

beer tasting, 3pm, 

£15, The Five Points 

Brewing Company, 

fivepointsbrewing. 

co.uk/tours/ 

11 

Spring wild food 

foraging, 11am-4pm, 

£28, meet at the 

Pavilion café, Vicky 

Park. hackneyarts.com 

11 

Barnardo's 10k run, 

10am-1pm, from 

£11, Queen Elizabeth 

Olympic Park 

11 

The 2007 Indie Disco, 

9pm-3am, The 

Mangle, London 

Fields 

11 

Work on a furniture 

project, £85, School 

of Stuff, Shacklewell 

Lane, schoolofstuff. 

co.uk 

11 

An evening with 

Christopher Biggins, 

7pm, Vicky Park 

Community Centre 

18 

Bow Beasties, 10am- 

12.30pm, FREE, club 

for ages 3-12, Tower 

Hamlets Cemetery 

Park 

25-26 

Magical Museum 

Sleepover, 7pm-9am, 

£45, for ages 7-12, 

Museum of Childhood 

25 

Family day, 1-4pm,. 

FREE, William Morris 

Gallery, Walthamstow 

Weekly 

Children's Pottery drop-in 

class, 11am-1pm & 

2-4pm, £5, Hackney City 

Farm 

5 

Wake up gigs, 1-5pm, 

parents £12.50, kids 

£5.50, Tea Building, 

Shoreditch, 07541 

906743 

Mick's Garage Sale, 

12-5pm, FREE, Queen's 

Yard, Hackney Wick 

Acoustic Sunday, 2-8pm, 

The Crypt Café in De 

Beauvoir 

12 

Zine Fair, 4-11pm, FREE, 

Moth Club, part of 

International Womens 

Week 

Hackney Record Fair, 

11am-6pm, Epic, 

Dalston 

26 

Mamma Mia!, 7-10pm, 

FREE, Boondocks 

Cinema Club, 

Mother's Day special, 

boondocksldn.com 

Traces of the Future 

exhibition, 10am-5pm, 

last chance to see the 

show, Nunnery Gallery, 

Bow 

POP-corn short film 

night, £4-6, Poplar 

Union, email for your 

film to be considered, 

popcorn-film@ 

poplarunion.com 

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Culture corner 

What's on at the Museum 

of Childhood this month 

New exhibition Searching For Ghosts features 

work by local and internationally renowned 

photographer Tom Hunter. It brings together 

children who live on Tower Hamlets Boundary 

Estate (built in1898) and residents who have lived 

in the area for up to 95 years. 

The last of the films in the Watch Talk Think Film 

season is Girlhood, 15 (2014). It's showing on 9 

March. Doors open at 6.30pm and tickets are £7. 

On 16 March, 6.30-8pm, The Gentle Author is 

giving an introductory talk on Spitalfields’ Nippers 

by Horace Warner. Tickets are £7. 

The museum has two events for board game 

lovers. Settlers of Catan Day with Mindsport 

Olympiad takes place on 18 March from 10am- 

5pm. Tickets for ages eight and up are £7. 

Donnybrook Court residents by Tom Hunter 

Pandemic Live! Can you help save humanity? takes 

place on 23 March, 6.30-9pm. Join award-winning 

comedians and help them save the world. It's just 

for adults and costs £10. 

To see full details and book tickets visit vam.ac.uk/ 

moc/whatson 

V&A Museum of Childhood, Cambridge Heath Road, 

E2 9PA 


MON TUE WED THU 

March 

1 

Fairy Stories, p16 

Morning Gloryville, p16 

Me For Queen, p16 

2 

Lindy hop, p16 

Throwback 

Thursday, p16 

Fairy Stories, p16 

6 

London Spelling Bee, 

p16 

Gymnastics p16 

Get fit, p16 

Tumble Tots, p16 

7 

London Two Pound 

Drawing Class, p16 

Shhh Dating Party East, 

p16 

Baby fitness, p16 

Comedy show, p16 

8 

Terraza Takeover, p16 

9 

Girlhood, p21 

Swing your heart 

out, p16 

Gascoyne Lives, 

p16 

13 

Learn to sew, p16 


Get fit, p16 


14 



Just Another Girl On 

The IRT, p16 

15 

Middle Eastern cookery 

course, p16 

16 

London Beer Week, 

p16 

Spitalfields' Nippers, 

p21 

20 

Backgammon, p16 

Wiggly Jigglers, p16 


Get fit, p16 


21 



Lil Pillow Talk, p16 

Chatterbooks, p16 

22 

Ingeeniums Wild Things, 

p16 

23 

Bar Counter launch 

party, p16 

Walk over hot 

coals, p16 

27 


Get fit, p16 


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29 

Coffee morning, p16 

30 

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FRI SAT SUN 

3 

Hackney table tennis club, 

p20 

Public tours, p20 

World Book Day, p20 

Vikings puppet project, p20 

10 

Pilates in the park, p20 

Children's games club, p20 


group, p20 

17 




group, p20 

Talented Art Fair, p20 

London Beer Week, p16 

4 

Storytime, p20 

British Military Fitness, p20 

Yoga glow, p20 

HoopTone, p20 

Vikings puppet project, p20 

Paint a mural, p20 

11 

Walking for health p20 

Indie disco, p20 

10k run, p20 

Food foraging, p20 

Brewery tour, p20 

Christopher Biggins, p20 

18 




London Beer Week, 

p16 

Bow Beasties, p20 

5 

Vikings puppet project, 

p20 

Wake up gigs, p20 

Acoustic Sunday, p20 

Children's pottery drop 

-in, p20 

12 

Zine Fair, p20 

Hackney Record Fair, 

p20 

Children's pottery dropin, 

p20 

19 


p20 


24 




group, p20 

25 


Magical Museum Sleepover, p20 


Family day at WM Gallery, p20 

26 

Mamma Mia!, p20 

Short film night, p20 


p20 

Traces of Future, p20 

Mother's Day! 

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group, p20 

Art events 

General events 

Outdoor events 


History hangout 

Dying tradition 

Hasina Zaman explains the 

history behind the horsedrawn 

funeral procession 

In East London, a Victorian horse-drawn funeral is 

an impressive and iconic sight. 

Grief-stricken Queen Victoria set the precedent in 

1861 on the death of Prince Albert. She arranged 

an ostentatious funeral that set the standard for 

public grief. 

Such was the demand for mourning wear that 

there was a shortage of black crêpe. It was 

used in such vast quantities in the 1890s that 

Courtauld’s built a textile empire on the sales of 

crêpe alone. 

It was a dull silk gauze – a crimped and stiff 

textured material and mostly dyed the deepest of 

blacks. White crêpe was used for the widow’s cap. 

Funerals would often consist of a glass carriage 

with two or four black or white horses dressed 

with plumes of ostrich feathers. White horses 

were used for unmarried women and children, 

and black for men. 

Queen Victoria’s influence was immense and it 

was common practice for families to save large 

amounts of money for their funerals. 

The number of plumes would indicate the 

amount spent on the funeral and, for the affluent 

families, paid mutes would sometimes be seen 

processing with the cortège. 

The cortège travelled from the family home to the 

church and then to the cemetery. This enabled 

people to stop and pay their respects as the 

procession passed. 

They would stop and face the hearse, bowing 

their heads until it passed. Men would take their 

hats off. 

This style of funeral is still carried out today, 

but unfortunately many people are unaware of 

the tradition, as we regularly see cars trying to 

overtake the slow-moving carriages. 

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Picture: Louis Saul Langfier (1859–1916) – National Portrait Gallery 

A bit of blue 

Rachel Kolsky remembers 

Hackney's undisputed 

queen of Music Hall 

2017 sees the 150th anniversary of the 

unveiling of the first London Blue Plaque 

commemorating Lord Byron. 

First administered by the Royal Society of the 

Arts, the Blue Plaque scheme is now run by 

Historic England. 

Over the past 150 years more than 900 plaques 

have been placed around our capital city. You 

can go blue plaque spotting in Hackney to find 

its seven official signs. These are complemented 

by around 50 brown plaques erected by the 

borough. 

The plaque at 55 Graham Road commemorates 

the home of music hall artist, Marie Lloyd. 

Born Mathilda Alice Victoria Wood in 1870 to 

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a theatrical family, she began performing at 

the Eagle Tavern, Hoxton. 

At the age of 14 she was billed as Bella Delmere 

but a year later styled herself Marie Lloyd 

and had her first big hit, The Boy I Love is Up in 

the Gallery. 

Her rise to fame and fortune was swift but not 

without controversy. The lyrics of her songs 

often had her in front of the censors but she 

could transform innuendos into innocence and 

her songs continued to be sung. 

She performed on all the major London stages 

and travelled around the globe. Her later hits 

included My Old Man ("...said follow the van") and 

Oh Mr Porter. 

When, in 1907, London's stage performers 

went on strike for better pay conditions Marie 

supported them. 

In response, the establishment punished her 

by excluding her from the first Royal Variety 

Performance (1912). Marie’s answer was to hold 

her own variety performance billed By Order of 

the British Public. 

Her personal life was marred by three ne'erdo-well 

husbands, although the middle 

one was a performer with whom she had a 

successful professional partnership. 

At the age of 52 she was in ill-health 

and while performing in Edmonton, 

collapsed. She died a few days later 

at her Golders Green home. 

Her funeral at Hampstead Cemetery 

was attended by nearly 100,000 people. A 

pub in Hoxton was named after her and when it 

closed a bar at the Hackney Empire was named 

in her honour. 

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Eating in 

sauté the shallot and leek for 

1-2 minutes. 

Roughly chop the spinach, 

add to the pan and sauté for 

another 3-4 minutes. You want 

to just about wilt the spinach. 

Towards the end season with 

some pepper. 

To serve, toast the two slices of 

sourdough bread, peel the eggs 

and cut them in half. Then place 

a slice on each plate, generously 

spread the bread with the 

crushed avocado, add a layer 

of sautéed spinach, top with 

an egg each, add some garden 

cress if you have it, sprinkle 

each slice with a tablespoon 

of olive oil and finish off with a 

pinch of chilli flakes and some 

freshly ground black pepper. 

Diana Warrings has the perfect recipe for a 

Mother's Day breakfast in bed 

Diana Warrings is a qualified 

nutritional therapist cooking 

delicious & healthy food, shared 

on irmagreen.com 

Ingredients (serves 2) 

This dish will leave any mum 

with a smile on her face. 

She'll not be left short when it 

comes to nutrients either as the 

combined ingredients are rich 

in fibre, good fats, vitamins and 

minerals. 

Method 

Wash the spinach well and leave 

to dry on a kitchen towel. Finely 

chop the leek and shallot and 

leave to sit until ready to use. 

Next, peel the avocado, remove 

the pit and scoop out the pulp. 

Put the pulp into a bowl, lightly 

season with salt and pepper, 

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sprinkle with the lemon juice 

and half a teaspoon of chilli 

flakes before mixing everything 

together using a fork. You 

want to get a semi-creamy 

consistency. 

Once mixed well, sprinkle with 

another squeeze of lemon juice 

to prevent the mix from going 

brown, cover and set aside. 

Next boil the eggs and once 

done, rinse with cold water and 

leave them to rest. 

While the eggs are boiling (five 

minutes will give you soft, runny 

eggs), heat 1tbsp of olive oil in a 

frying pan at medium heat and 

2 free range eggs 

2 slices fresh sourdough bread 

from a local artisan bakery 

1 large ripe avocado 

10ml (2 tsp) fresh lemon juice, 

60g spinach 

1 small shallot, finely chopped 

1 inch of fresh leek, finely 

chopped 

1 small tray fresh garden cress 

½ tsp of chilli flakes + 2 tsp to 

garnish 

60ml (4 tbsp) of cold pressed 

extra virgin olive oil 

Sea salt & black pepper to taste

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Eating out 

The ginger one had pancakes, 

wolfed them down while 

declaring them the best. I 

went off piste with an order of 

avocado, bacon and two eggs. 

This too was declared the best. 

It was flawless. DaddyO liked the 

chorizo, cornbread, fried egg 

and sweet corn very much. 

Bistrotheque is the creation 

of the one-time fashion 

designers Pablo Flack and David 

Waddington and they’re still 

London’s favourite fashion party 

organisers. 

They know what looks good, 

including the team working the 

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all looking like part of a Jean 

Paul Gaultier advert. 

Bistrotheque 

Susan Birtwistle samples brunch at a 

fun palace for the fashionable 

This place is swinging. Brunches 

here are now a bit of an East 

London institution and so is 

Xavier Roide. He’s the bluehaired 

pianist tinkling the ivories 

underneath an equally showy 

floral display. 

Xavier’s brilliance is his musical 

arrangements. Pop classics 

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can take a moment to recognise 

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We loved Yazz, Madonna, Lady 

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I’ve been trying to get to 

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Night time, yes, we’re regularly 

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when Harry comes to stay. I’ve 

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cold light of day. 

Bistrotheque is the fun palace 

for the fashionable. Brunch 

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decadent, so we took the small 

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The brunch menu is 

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Money matters 

From April 2018 small business 

owners will be required to make 

quarterly returns to HMRC for 

their income tax. 

Advertorial 

All businesses, including limited 

companies, will be required to 

do so by 2020. 

This will mean significant 

increases in reporting required 

for small business owners and 

while there are discussions 

ongoing with HMRC, it seems 

that this will need to be 

submitted online. 

This is bad news for those 

business owners who have 

up to now managed to avoid 

computer-based record 

keeping. 

Those who have a good 

accountant will be in an 

infinitely better position than 

those who don’t because 

although HMRC are lenient with 

late filing to begin with, when 

they do start charging fines and 

penalties these are hefty. 

This was seen with the Real 

Time Information (RTI) system 

introduced for employers which 

currently charges a flat £100 

penalty per late submission. 

HMRC believes this is going to 

make business owners more 

informed in an age of internet 

Computer 

says no?... 

Chris James explains why it's time to 

find a web-savvy accountant 

banking, as they will know how 

much tax they need to pay on a 

more regular basis. 

But sceptics are theorising that 

HMRC will follow this up with a 

requirement to pay taxes due 

on a quarterly basis as well. 

If you need an accountant or 

just think that changing to a 

new one could be beneficial, 

contact Alan Patient & Co. 

Remember, the first 

consultation is free. 

Some of the team at Alan Patient & Co 

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So now there really is no better 

time to make sure that you have 

an accountant who can guide 

you, ensure you are kept up to 

date with your record-keeping 

and makes sure you remain on 

the right side of new legislation. 

This is the case whether you are 

a small business owner or the 

director of a limited company. 

Alan Patient & Co 

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George Lane 

South Woodford 

E18 1BD 

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Wellbeing 

Advertorial 

Give 

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away 

Giving is as good as receiving help, says Karen Liebenguth 

Giving time to support or listen to someone, 

giving knowledge, respect, regard or praise, giving 

care and love... 

There are so many ways in which we can express 

generosity which are not related to giving money 

and yet our hard-wired survival instinct to look 

after number one can present a real barrier to 

going beyond our own needs and desires for the 

benefit of others. 

Being kind to ourselves increases the capacity to 

give to others. Once we learn to accept ourselves 

as who we are, we develop a sense of self-worth 

and confidence. With this comes a more open 

heart and mind and a capacity to give to others. 

We no longer feel threatened when a friend, our 

partner, colleague or boss has a different opinion. 

We are more open to other people’s views while 

acknowledging and respecting our own. 

Being generous is not just beneficial for others, 

when we give we benefit too. 

Practise being generous this week by journaling 

for ten minutes every day. Review the last 24 

hours, write down what you have appreciated 

about yourself in your day, what you have done 

well, what hasn’t worked so well and what you 

could and will do differently next time. This 

strengthens a learning or growth mind-set. 

Do you have a tendency to talk more than you 

listen? Find opportunities to give someone 

listening time, ask someone what’s been 

happening for them. Notice whether you stay with 

them, listening attentively or if you find yourself 

waiting to speak. Notice the effect good quality 

listening has on the other person. 

And every day seek out opportunities to give 

something small to someone – a smile, a wellwish, 

a heartfelt “good morning”. Make someone 

a cup of tea, offer a helping hand, visit someone 

who is ill or unwell, write a letter or pick up the 

phone to someone you haven’t been in touch with 

for a while. 

The list of possibilities goes on. Enjoy the 

experience. 

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Fitness 

Vertical Rush 

This is one of the great events 

on the London fitness calendar. 

It is a sprint (or walk) up Tower 

42, the third-tallest skyscraper 

in the City of London, originally 

called the NatWest Tower. 

That’s 932 steps in 42 floors. 

You can run or walk and in 

2016, the average time was just 

under ten minutes. 

As well as raising money for a 

good cause – housing charity 

Shelter – it is a lung-busting, 

leg-burning rush of exercise. 

Training for it would be a great 

base for a fitness drive. 

This year’s event is on 9 March 

and Shelter says there are likely 

to be places available now and 

on the day for those who are fit 

and ready to go (you will need 

to pay £30 to register, and raise 

£160 in sponsorship in the six 

weeks after the event). 

Registration for 2018 opens on 

the same day. Shelter also runs 

Urban Rush on 1 October. It's 

a 15-mile run from the Queen 

Elizabeth Olympic Park to 

Putney. 

Search online for Vertical Rush 

or Urban Rush and Shelter for 

details. 

Modified V-sit 

A great abs exercise, this 

requires good balance, 

co-ordination and an ability 

to make sure your abs fire 

and don’t rely on the back 

to take over, so it would be 

a progression from easier 

exercises. 

You start by laying on your back 

with your feet and head off the 

Step up your regime 

Roger Love, a local personal trainer, 

continues our A-Z of fitness with... V 

floor and your arms straight 

by your side. You then sit-up, 

drawing your knees into your 

stomach. Keep your arms out 

straight for balance as you sit 

on your bum. 

Then, lower yourself down. If it 

is too hard, start with something 

easier, such as a reach up. 

To do this, lay on your back, with 

your legs straight up in the air. 

Hold your arms up straight too 

and then squeeze through your 

abs to reach up towards – not 

necessarily touching – your 

shoe laces. Tuck your chin in to 

avoid using your neck to get up. 

Roger Love is a personal trainer 

based at Netil House, Westgate 

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Gardening 

Advertorial 

Sarah Kay explains the key steps to 

garden redesign 

Designs 

on your 

outdoor 

space 

Tender and build 

With the final design agreed, 

a garden designer can help to 

find the right contractor for 

your project. I don’t take finder’s 

fees so can offer independent 

tender management. 

A designer can also oversee 

your build to ensure that 

the integrity of the design is 

maintained and the build runs 

smoothly. 

Planting Plan 

This is crucial to a garden's 

success. Detailed planting 

plans ensure the right plant in 

the right place and a visually 

stimulating display through the 

year. 

Maintenance 

It’s pointless spending money to 

produce a beautiful garden if it 

is not maintained. I can provide 

maintenance or a monthly plan. 

So, you’ve decided that your 

garden needs an overhaul. Where 

do you start? 

Choose a garden designer 

Search online for local designers 

or ask friends or colleagues 

for recommendations. Review 

online portfolios and check 

customer testimonials. It’s also 

good to check references with 

past clients. 

Initial consultation 

This meeting aims to 

understand the practical needs 

of the space and the stylistic 

preferences of the client. 

To brief your designer, put 

together a visual style board 

using Pinterest and have an 

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Following this, I produce a quote 

which will include fixed costs for 

design and estimates for build, 

plants and planting. Designers 

may quote differently so it's 

important to establish this. 

Site survey and design 

The next step is a full site 

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This survey will provide the 

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