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Welcome to your local magazine 

Dear neighbours 

In the latest edition of LoveEast one of our local 

rising stars talks to a band who have already lit up 

the music world. Master of the spoken word, 

Di-Andre Ebanks-Silvera took over from our 

regular columnist Angie Gough, to hang out with 

the brilliant drum and bass band, Rudimental. 

The interview highlights how deep the pool of 

talent is in East London. How lucky are we to be 

able to lay claim to the number of young people 

who just get up and do it, show off their talents 

and do great things for the community? Read all 

about them on p6. 

On page 12 Christine Preisig proves that 

craftsmanship is far from dead. The people at 

Bellerby & Co are making the most exquisite 

globes – hand-painted, hand-crafted and very, 

very beautiful. 

We also have a sneak preview of East End 

Vernacular, the soon-to-be-released book about 

the artists who painted the East End. Take a look 

at some of their wonderful paintings on p20. 

What with our what's on guide, recipe page, 

restaurant review and local business focus pieces, 

there's lots to read and discover about this 

amazing part of London. I hope you enjoy the 

latest edition. 

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East life 

Home's where the art is 

In a light-filled upstairs room at 

The Gun in Well Street Market, 

young spoken-word artist 

Di-Andre Ebanks-Silvera took 

over my artskicking duties, 

interviewing Rudimental and 

leaving me in the corner to take 

pics and marvel at all the talent in 

the room. He did brilliantly. Here’s 

what went down… 

On the day after the release of 

their latest single Sun Comes 

Up, before an afternoon spent 

mentoring young performers 

at the Discover Young Hackney 

stage, I caught up with Kesi and 

Amir from Rudimental. 

Rudimental are more Hackney 

than Hackney. Kesi was born 

in Mother’s Hospital and grew 

up in Upper Clapton. Piers and 

Locksmith grew up in Lower 

Clapton and all their mums 

were friends. "We began playing 

Angie Gough hands over her column 

as LoveEast meets Rudimental 

football together in our teens, 

as all kids back then tended to 

do," Kesi says. "Even sometimes 

now I still go down to Hackney 

Marshes." 

Later on, between school and 

going to see artists like Wiley 

and Dizzee Rascal at Palace 

Pavilion, they began making 

music together. “We were just 

doing something we loved and 

continued to pursue it,” Kesi 

says. 

2011 was really the turning 

point. Meeting Amir (from King’s 

Cross) and becoming a fourpiece, 

they got signed and were 

asked to perform at Hackney 

Weekender, where they 

took their DJ set and turned 

themselves into a live band. 

Despite a busy touring 

schedule, the boys still see 

Hackney as home. Kesi says: 

“I grew up here. All my friends 

and family are here. Recently I 

got to move back, next door to 

my mum back in Clapton. I've 

been very lucky to grow up with 

such diversity, where there are 

so many people from different 

walks of life.” 

Amir echoes Kesi’s sentiment: 

"We've been to many places but 

nowhere’s like Hackney." 

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Its vibrancy and diversity has 

heavily influenced the band. 

“Growing up, I had a Jamaican 

family next door playing reggae; 

Irish neighbours playing folk; 

Indian playing Indian – bringing 

all sorts of music and food and 

cultures,” says Kesi. “It’s not 

many places where you grow 

up feeling like you’re one step 

ahead of everyone. You can go 

anywhere else in the world and 

still feel at home.” 

For Amir, too, that diversity is 

precious. “It's something to 

be cherished and used to our 

advantage," he says. 

Moving on to inspirations, 

Amir remembers: “When I was 

about 15, I was inspired by 

hearing a girl rap on a beat. 

She took me to a youth club 

where they were making music. 

The manager was a guy called 

Kevin Osbourne and the most 

important thing he did for me 

was to say, ‘Yeah you can do it’.” 

East life 

''We have been to many places 

but nowhere's like Hackney' 

up in music or starting a career 

in music? “One of the hardest 

things for me with music was 

sharing it with people. It’s scary,” 

says Kesi. 

He tells the story of an early 

Rudimental single and how he 

played it on a mix tape with 

some mates in a car, without 

remembering it was on the 

tape. Their reaction to it was 

enthusiastic and it went on 

to become their number one 

debut Home. 

Amir concurs: “Be brave. Share 

you work. Get out your comfort 

Continued on next page... 

The club was Major Tom’s, now 

Rudimental’s very own studio 

and record label. 

Safe to say that Kevin is an 

#Artskicker ;) 

For Kesi, seeing Hackney boy 

Labrinth have success was a 

big inspiration. He says: “He's 

younger than me, from the 

same school and area. It made 

me think, ‘If he can, I can do it 

too’.” 

It wasn’t always an easy road, 

but “the message of our music 

is always a positive one". "We've 

all had our individual struggles, 

it’s important not to focus on 

the negative”, says Kesi. 

Any advice for anyone coming 

Kesi, Amir, DJ Locksmith, and Piers hanging out (of the windows) 


East life 

''We all feel it's important to 

give back to the community 

that helped make us' 

From left to right: Amir, DJ Locksmith, Kesi and Piers. Below, Amir and Kesi with Di-Andre (middle) 

zone. You will get judged, but 

take it on the chin. Before we 

got to our level of success, 

we were all about 25 or so; 

worked ordinary jobs (including 

teaching and youth work); we’d 

lived a bit, gone to uni. 

"Sometimes when you’re young, 

with the whole world presented 

in front of you it’s difficult to live 

a normal life.” 

Being friends with each 

other and having 

“amazing parents” 

has helped the boys 

on their 

journey, too, and 

keeps their feet 

firmly on the 

ground. 

Di-Andre’s interview time 

was up and the boys put 

on their Discover Young Hackney 

T-shirts, ready to go hear some 

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of East London’s freshest talent 

in action. For a band that’s 

flying high, living every 

young artist’s dream, 

they really could’ve 

stayed in bed. But 

not these guys. 

Kesi says: “I know I 

can speak on behalf 

of the rest of the boys 

when I say that we want to be 

involved in stuff like this more 

and more. 

"We all feel like 

it's important to 

give back to the 

community that 

helped make us!” 

And with that, 

they’re off, inspiring 

the next generation. 

Bona fide #Artskickers. 

Rudimental’s latest single Sun 

Comes Up, featuring James 

Arthur, is out now. 

Keep up with Di-Andre 

Ebanks-Silvera on 

Soundcloud and 

Twitter 

@diandreebanks. 

Follow @TheArts 

Crusader on Instagram 

and Twitter. 

Rudimental's top five 

Hackney hotspots... 

Ridley Road Market – for 

when you need to know 

you’re home. 

Mare Street – for the 

memories, mostly. 

Hackney Marshes – for the 

footie. Obvs. 

Millfields Park – for a walk 

and a proper caf. 

Visions Video Bar – for a night 

out in Dalston (shh….)

Hackney Playbus 

All aboard 

Claire Kelly, of Hackney 

Playbus, explains how the 

small charity has a big impact 

Last time we were featured in LoveEast, we 

were asking you, the readers, our friends and 

supporters, to help us raise the money to buy a 

new Playbus. 

Well, thanks to you all, Tilly, our 

replacement double decker, is now on 

the road. What a collaborative effort 

that was. 

Tilly is now fully converted and beautifully 

painted by local artist Anna Van der Poorten 

– with jungle animals from designs by the 

children of Kingsmead Primary School, facilitated 

by Hackney children’s education project Art 

Hoppers. 

Hackney Playbus is 45 years old. Still delivering 

our mobile play service supporting children under 

five. 

Above all we are a community engagement 

project. We welcome all families but work hard 

to include children who might miss out, as well 

as families who are isolated. In our 2017 survey 

98 per cent of families felt their children had 

benefited from playing with other children at the 

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friends by coming here. 

Right now we are delivering sessions in 

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East London makers 

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Photo: Bellerby Globemakers


Christine Preisig discovers 

the art of globemaking at 

Bellerby & Co 

Photo: Stuart Freedman 

There is a focused energy in the Stoke Newington 

workshop where 17 people work in silence and 

with full concentration on manufacturing the 

finest globes one could imagine. 

The team of artists, designers and cartographers 

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shade contours of continents and carefully 

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The process to make a globe sounds simple, but 

wetting and stretching a piece of paper across 

a sphere with the utmost precision is a tricky 

business. 

“All it wants to do is turn to mush under your 

fingers and tear,” says Peter Bellerby, the 

company’s founder. 

One mistake can destroy weeks’ worth of 

paintwork. A globemaker therefore needs to be 

dexterous and very, very patient. 

Patience, concentration and dexterity are the essential skills 

of a Bellerby employee 


Photo: Ana Santi 



A Bellerby globe is a piece of perfection. The 

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on without the slightest spill or smudge. On a 

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Peter founded the company 

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The choices available were either cheap 

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The plan was to invest three months in the 

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Every step in the creation brought up new and 

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Two years on, he finally succeeded in making 

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East End Vernacular 

LoveEast is proud 

to collaborate 

with Spitalfields 

Life to present an 

exclusive preview 

of East End Vernacular 

The new book, East End Vernacular, Artists who 

painted London’s East End Streets in the 20th 

Century, will be published in October and we are 

delighted to give LoveEast readers a preview of 

the book's beautiful content. 

This handsome art monograph assembles a 

magnificent selection of pictures, tracing the 

evolution of painting styles and illustrating the 

changing character of the East London streets 

throughout the last century 

Moving pictures 

In this issue of LoveEast, three very different yet 

equally talented painters celebrate familiar 

East End locations with affection and 

imagination. 

Henry Silk 

Born on Christmas Day 1883, Silk was 

a basket-maker. He grew up working in 

his uncle Abraham Silk’s basket-making 

workshop in Bow Road. 

Above: Snow in Rounton Road, Bow and , 

Left, Henry Silk outside his basket shop; 

below, Old Houses, Bow, by Henry Silk 

above, Snow in Rounton Road, Bow 

and, below, Old Houses, Bow 

While serving in the army during the First World 

War, he began sketching, and in the 1920s he 

attended classes at the Bethnal Green Working 

Men’s Institute, exhibiting his work for the first 

time in 1924. Over the coming years, Silk achieved 

significant recognition as far away as America. The 

Daily Telegraph and Sunday Times revealed that, in 

addition to purchases by national collections in 

this country, the far-away Public Gallery of Toledo 

in Ohio had bought Silk’s Still Life for six guineas. 

Yet he never gave up his work as a basket-maker. 

“He used to work for three weeks at basketmaking 

and spend the fourth in the pub,” fellow 

painter Walter Steggles remembered fondly. 

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Reproduced courtesy of Tower Hamlets Archives & Local History Library 

Above: Snow in Rounton Road, Bow and , below, Old 

Above, The Jolly Butcher's Yard, Brick Lane; right, 

Houses, Bow, by Henry Silk 

the artist, Albert Turpin and, below, Belleview Place, 

Whitechapel 

Albert Turpin 

A window cleaner by trade, Turpin was born 

in Columbia Road, Bethnal Green in 1900. His 

father earned what he could as a tea-cooper, 

feather sorter and casual docker, and when 

Turpin left Globe Road School at 14, he tried a bit 

of everything to earn a crust, until at 15 he was 

conscripted for the First World War. 

me forget all 

about my 

art class and join 

up with the 

organised workers 

right there,” 

he wrote in his autobiography. As well as joining 

the Labour Party, Albert Turpin became an anti- 

Fascist protestor and was unanimously elected 

Mayor of Bethnal Green in 1946. 


Like Henry Silk, he began painting while in the 

forces and returned to take up the job of window 

cleaner, but in a later interview he revealed his 

motives as an artist. He admitted a wish to show 

others “the beauty in the East End and to record 

the old streets before they go.” 

Several of his paintings were included in the East 

London Art show at the Whitechapel Gallery in 

1928 and were transferred to the Tate Gallery. In 

1926, the year of the General Strike, on the way to 

his art group, Turpin heard a speech by Bill Gee, 

a working class activist. “What he did was to make 



Roland Collins 

Born in 1918, Roland 

Collins first came to the 

East End in the 1930s 

in the footsteps of 

James McNeill Whistler, 

drawing riverside 

scenes, returning after the 

war to paint the Hawksmoor 

churches. “I’ve always been interested in that 

area," he confided wistfully at 94, "I remember 

one of my first excursions to see the French 

Synagogue in Fournier Street.” 

A remarkable talent of modest demeanour, 

Collins was an artist who quietly followed his 

personal enthusiasms, especially in architecture 

and all aspects of London lore, creating a 

significant body of paintings while supporting 

himself as a designer throughout his working 

life. “I was designing everything,” he declared, 

searching his mind and seizing upon a random 

example, “I did record sleeves, I did the sleeve 

for Decca for the first long-playing record ever 

produced.” 

Copies of East End Vernacular, Artists who painted 

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Reproduced courtesy of Museum of London 

Above: Snow in Rounton Road, Bow and , 

Painting of Brushfield Street, Spitalfields, 

below, Old Houses, Bow, by Henry Silk 

by Roland Collins 

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Parenting 

I grew up in South Wales, riding 

fat ponies because the closest 

cinema was 50 minutes away 

and there wasn’t much else to 

do. No rush-hour traffic except 

when there were sheep on the 

road, no pollution apart from 

at silage-spreading time, and 

absolutely no Tube, theatre or 

tourists. 

Raising capital 

These are all things I moan 

about having made my life in 

London. I’ve been here for 14 

years, and I’ve been a parent in 

the city for three. I remember 

being roundly, fatly pregnant, 

and looking at a map of where 

in the home counties (I admit 

that I was a walking cliché) 

I wanted to raise our tiny 

sproglets. Nothing came of it, 

but I knew deep down that I 

wanted the upbringing for my 

kids that I had. Not the urban 

sprawl of Zone 2. A knowledge 

of bird calls, not bus routes. 

My two sons came along and as 

they grew, so did my friendships 

with my East London NCT 

group. Bound together by birth 

stories, leaky boobs and a thirst 

for excellent coffee, we could 

be found pushing our prams 

round Victoria Park, or daffodilspotting 

along the canal, in an 

effort to walk off the excess of 

Jaffa Cakes that come with being 

a new mum. 

Little by little, I discovered the 

best coffee on the Roman 

Road, the Italian in Hackney 

with innumerable high chairs, 

and the best picnic spots on 

Wanstead Flats. The city opened 

its green spaces to me and my 

Bugaboo and I saw a side of 

London I didn’t know existed. 

Don’t get me wrong. I hanker 

for the countryside when it’s 

In the first of a new series, blogger Bell 

from Bow tackles the challenges of 

being a parent in the Big Smoke 

a heatwave or when it snows, 

when it’s really busy with 

tourists or when I can’t park 

outside my house. 

London is a city of extremes. 

But it’s also a city of a million 

tiny kindnesses. The lady 

who brought me water 

and a croissant when I 

was embarrassed to be 

breastfeeding in a café. The 

hairdresser who hunted me 

down to return a favourite 

matchbox car. The neighbours 

who don’t moan when my kids 

are noisy on a Sunday morning 

(to be fair, I do deliver wine 

when they’ve been really bad.) 

If my kids grow up to have such 

big hearts, I’ll be delighted. 

bellfrombow.com/the-blog 

Instagram: bell_from_bow 

Twitter: bell_from_bow 

Facebook: BellfromBow 

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What's on in August & September 

MON 

TUE 

WED 

THU 

Weekly 

Cockney Comedy night, 

7.30-10pm, FREE, The 

Victoria, Mile End 

21 Aug 

Woodcraft Folk, 6-7pm, 

Woodside Elfins at 

Epping Forest, an 

outdoor group for 

ages 6-9. facebook. 

com/woodsideelfins/ or 

email woodsideelfins@ 

gmail.com 


East London 

Waterways Festival, 

join the celebrations 

for the restoration of 

Carpenters Road Lock 

4 Sep 

Bootcamp, 7pm, meet 

at Victory Park signposted 

wall (opposite 

Sainsbury's Local) 


Beginners' dance 

class, 12-1pm, £2, 

Shoreditch Town Hall, 

followed by tea dance 

from 1.30pm 

Roll Out The Barrel, 

1-3pm, FREE, piano 

singalong, The 

Northcote, 110 Grove 

Green Road, Leyton 

Storytime 

Weekly (term-time) 

Storytime for under 5s, 

10-11.30am, Victoria 

Park Community 

Centre, 5 Gore Road 


Upcycling for 5-16s, 

10.30am-12.30pm and 

2-4pm. Recycling old 

and unloved things, 

Geffrye Musuem 

Social dance, 1-4pm, £5, 

The Score Centre, 100 

Oliver Road, Leyton 

Metropolis, screens 

at 7.30pm, from £6, 

Wilton's Music Hall, 

accompanied by a 

score from composer 

Dmytro Morykit 

1 Aug (-28 Oct) 

Othello, 7.30pm, £15, 

Wilton's Music Hall 


Meadow Safari Spaces, 

1.30–3.30pm, FREE, 

Vicky Park, 020 7364 

7968 

15 (-21) Aug 

Futureheads, £75-£150, 

creative week summer 

project, 8-11yrs, 

hackneyshowroom.com 


Arts trail, 9am-7pm, 

Walthamstow Library, 

bunny.org.uk 


Senza Sangue & 

Bluebeards Castle 

Hackney Empire and 

the Armel Opera 

Festival 

Weekly 

Bollywood dance class, 

7-8pm, from £12, Proud 

East, 2 Hertford Road 

The Big Quiz, 7.30pm, 

The Dove. dovepubs.com 

Café Life, 11am-3pm, 

FREE, Cornerstone, 149 

Canterbury Road 

Weekly (Aug) 

Word On The Street, 

10am-5pm, FREE, 

The Ragged School 

Museum, for ages 0-11, 

raggedschoolmuseum. 

org.uk 


Las Cafeteras, from £8, 

Afro-Mexican band's 

debut, Rich Mix 


Karl Blau & Laura Gibson, 

7.30pm, £14, Oslo 

Hackney oslohackney. 

com 


Sewing workshop, 

12-2.30pm, FREE, 

Cornerstone Church, 

Leyton 


Teddy Bear's Picnic, 

12pm–3pm, for 0-5yrs, 

Vicky Park, 020 7364 

7968 

13 Sept 

Tashi Lhunpo Monks with 

BlackMoon 1348, Michael 

Ormiston and Candida 

Valentino, Old Church, 

Stoke Newington, 

7-10pm 

Weekly . 

Mosaic-making, 7-9pm, 

£8 drop-in, Hackney City 

Farm 

Kundalini yoga class, 

7pm, Quaker House, 

Leytonstone. £12 inc 

yogi tea & biccies. Sue 

07717 863315 

Knitting, sewing or 

crochet, 1-3pm, Victoria 

Park Community Centre, 

5 Gore Road, E9 


Benedict Drew 

exhibition, 7pm, £9.50, 

Whitechapel Gallery 

Wildlife-friendly 

gardening, 6.30-8:30pm. 

£10, Tower Hamlets 

Cemetery Park 

Creative Kids: Persian 

Patterned Platter, 10- 

11.30am, William Morris 

Gallery. wmgallery.org.uk 


Stroll, 6.30-8pm, from 

£5, around the Plants 

and People Trail, Tower 

Hamlets Park, fothcp.org 


David Gilmour Live 

at Pompeii, 9pm, £8, 

Genesis Cinema 


London Sketchbook, 

6.30-10pm, £15, private 

viewing at The Archivist, 

Hertford Road 

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FRI 

Weekly 

Well Street Kitchen, 

now open for Fri & Sat 

nights, dinner & drinks 

4, 11 Aug 

Oli Fowler show at 

Print Club London 

Gallery, 10-28 Millers 

Ave, E8 2DS 

FRI 

walled garden, 2pm, 

Celebrating 25 Years 

Geffrye Museum 


After-hours workshops 

for ages 14-19, FREE 

6-9pm (booking 

essential), Geffrye 

Museum 

SAT 

Weekly 

Volunteer gardening, 

2-5pm, FREE, Dalston 

Curve Garden 

Farmers' market, 10am- 

3pm, Stepney City Farm 

SAT 

Chingfest, 1-8pm, 

FREE, Ridgeway Park, 

Chingford 

Disco Loco In The Park, 


Springfield Park, 

hackneyshowroom.com 

4, 11, 18, 25 Aug & 


Summertime story 

weaving, 11am-4pm. 

FREE, Museum of 

Childhood 

4, 11, 18, 25 Aug 

Night feast, 5-10pm, 

FREE, Walthamstow 

Town Square, 

facebook.com/ 

nightfeast17 

11, 23 Aug 

25 years of the 


Mini musicians, 

11.45am-12.30pm, 

£6.20, from birth to 

4yrs, Waltham Forest 

Music Service, 12 

Church Hill, E17 

15 Sep (-1 Oct) 

Joan Cornella 

exhibition, 11am-8pm, 

£5. Barcelona- based 

cartoonist and 

illustrator famous for 

his works imbued with 

unsettling, surreal, and 

black humor, Hoxton 

Arches 

Bugs and beasties at William Morris Gallery 

Well Street Market, now 

every Saturday from 

10am to 4pm. 


Victoria Park Day, 11am- 

4pm, FREE 

Visions Festival, 1pm, 

£27.50, London Fields 


Junior wildlife club, 

10.30am-12.30pm, 

FREE, tree trail in Vicky 

Park, meet at the Hub 

building, for ages 5-13 

Really Get to Know Your 

Wild Plants: Mint Family, 

10am-3.30pm, from 

£25, Tower Hamlets 

Cemetery Park, 

fothcp.org 

Volunteer gardening 

The Great British Apple 

Festival, 12-8pm, £10, 

Shoreditch Park, 

gbaf.co.uk 


Summer fair, 12-4pm, 

Bow Church 

19 (-20) Aug 

London Halal Food 

Festival, 11am-7pm, 

£10, Tobacco Dock, 

Wapping Lane 

5, 26 Aug, 23 Sep 

Art In Your Parks, 

10am-11am, FREE, 

storytelling tours 

Coronation Gardens, 

Leyton 




SAT SAT SUN SUN 


Living Arts Festival, 

Queen Elizabeth 

Olympic Park, Timber 

Lodge café 

Family day: Bugs and 

beasties, 1-4pm, FREE, 

William Morris Gallery 

Shuffle Festival, films, 

performances and 

music, Tower Hamlets 


shufflefestival.com 


Family day, 12-4pm, 

FREE, Whitechapel 

Gallery! 


Chatsfest, FREE, 

Chatsworth Road's 

annual Festival 

Open art, 2-4pm 

Old Church, Stoke 

Newington. Paint what 

you like, pay what you 

can. N16 9ES 

Jumble sale, 10am- 

1pm, FREE, St Joseph's 

Hospice, Mare St, E9 

16, 17 Sep 

Upholstery taster, 10am- 

4pm, £195, The School 

of Stuff, theschoolofstuff. 

co.uk 

16, 17 Sep 

Open House London, 

12-4pm, Bow Church, 

openhouselondon.org.uk 


Bric-a-brac sale, Victoria 

Park Community 

Centre, 5 Gore Road, 

E9. Contributions 

please: toys, jewellery, 

gifts, 07734 262051 


Baby Loves Disco, 10am, 

£4, Shoreditch Town 

Hall, for 0-6yrs 

Family day: Tutti frutti, 

1-4pm, FREE, William 

Morris Gallery, 

wmgallery.org.uk 

Weekly 

General provisions 

store, 11am-5pm, 

Host of Leyton, Leyton 

High Road 

Farmers' market, 10am- 

2pm, London Fields 

Primary School 


Waltham Forest mela, 


Chestnuts Field. One 

of the biggest Asian 

music festivals in 

London 

6 Aug, 3 Sep 

Wanstead farmers' 

market, on the high 

street, 10am-3pm, 


Abseil the ArcelorMittal 

Orbit, QE Olympic 

Park, stjh.org.uk 

Kirbstock 2: Electric 

Boogaloo, from 3pm, 

FREE, 2nd annual wig 

party, Pavilion Café, 

Vicky Park 

Farmers' markets 

Leytonstone Street 

Festival, from 12pm, 

FREE, town centre 


Race for Life, 10am, 

Queen Elizabeth 

Olympic Park, for ages 

13+ 


Memoryscape History 

Walk, 10.30am- 

12.30pm, Vicky Park, 

020 7364 7968 

London Open House, 


William Morris Gallery 


The Harvest Stomp, 

FREE, Queen Elizabeth 

Olympic Park 


Shuffle Festival, films, 

performances and 

music, Tower Hamlets 


shufflefestival.com 

Autoportrait, 12-6pm, 

last day to view Luke 

Willis Thompson's 

exhibition, Chisenhale 

Gallery 

Shuffle Festival: arts in the graveyard 

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The Great East End 

Walk, with St Joseph's 

Hospice, stjh.org.uk 

Learn to upholster

Culture corner 

What's on at the Museum 

of Childhood 

Explore the secrets behind Michael Morpurgo’s 

storytelling through his original drafts, 

adaptations, scripts and unpublished manuscripts 

in the new free exhibition Michael Morpurgo: A 

Lifetime in Stories. 

Image: David Dean 

And meet Joey, the original life-size West End 

horse puppet from the National Theatre’s awardwinning 

stage adaptation of War Horse. 

Enjoy free drop-in family activities throughout the 

summer holidays, with special storytelling-themed 

Fridays during August and 1 September. 

Celebrate A Hoxton Childhood by AS Jasper, a 

tender memoir of growing up in the East End at 

the beginning of the 20th century, published by 

Spitalfields Life Books. Visit on 14 September from 

6.30-8pm for readings by local actors, memories 

A Lifetime in Stories 

from Jasper’s son, Terry, and poetry readings from 

Derrick Porter, author of Voices of Hoxton. It will 

all be topped off with singing from Bethnal Green 

legend Henrietta Keeper, aka Joan. Book online, 

£7pp. 

V&A Museum of Childhood, Cambridge Heath Road, 

E2 9PA. vam.ac.uk/moc/whatson 

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What to do 

Beaches 

The biggest urban beach in the UK returns to the 

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Located in the 

heart of the park, there's fun, sun (hopefully) and 

sandcastles. With nearly 1,000 tonnes of golden 

sand, a giant paddling pool, a double-decked 

beach bar, games and food... there's something 

for everyone at BeachEast Amusement Park. 

The Site Access Wristband at £2 grants access 

to beach, paddling pool and bar. Until 2 Sept. 

beacheast.co.uk 

Not quite a beach, but nearly... there's water 

games galore at Victoria Park Pools playground. 

Don't forget the bullet train from Stratford 

International station. We're just a short train ride 

away from the (real) beaches of Whitstable, Herne 

Bay, Margate and Ramsgate. 

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 

Has your little 

one got the 

acting bug? 

Forests 

Any Woodcraft Folk out there? Be a Woodside 

Elfin and join an outdoor group in Epping 

Forest (ages 6-9). For info go to facebook.com/ 

woodsideelfins/ or email woodsideelfins@gmail.com 

Dancing 

After school dance at Yoga Nest, Old Ford Road, 

4pm every Monday. 

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 

Festivals 

The Shuffle Festival is not to be missed. There 

are films performances and music at the Tower 

Hamlets Cemetery Park, shufflefestival.com 

Museums 

Explore the secrets behind Michael Morpurgo’s 

storytelling. Original drafts, adaptations, scripts 

and unpublished manuscripts Michael Morpurgo: A 

Lifetime in Stories. Museum of Childhood, E2. 

Pop along to the Geffrye Museum and become 

a Geffrye Explorer. Fun family activities at the 

museum. Saturdays & Sundays, 12.30-4.30pm. 

Beasties 

Junior Wildlife Club, Free tree trail in Victoria Park. 

Meet at the Hub building. Agest 5-13. 

Follow us on 

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Book your 

FREE 

taster class 

today 

See www.actingbugs.co.uk 

for our timetable and venues 

and to book a free taster class 

Music & Drama 

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 

Music with Maddy at the Hackney Museum every

with the kids 

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

Stories 

Pop Tales at Poplar Union. Build a story, for 4-10s. 

2 Cotall Street, E14. poplarunion.com 

Word on the Street. Free at the Ragged School 

Museum, ages 0-11 raggedschoolmuseum.org.uk 

Pottery 

Every Sunday there are drop-in children's pottery 

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

book, just turn up ready to get messy.11am-1pm 

and 2-4pm. £5. Goldsmith's Row, E2. 

Victoria Park Summer Art Camp at Wonderland 

Ceramics, wonderlandceramics.com (until 25 

August). 

Yoga for babies... 

Post-natal/baby yoga, 10.45am, Quaker Meeting 

House, E11 helenyoga.co.uk 

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. 

Horse-riding 

Lee Valley Riding Centre leevalleypark.org.uk/go/ 

horseriding/, Aldersbrook, aldersbrookriding.co.uk 

(with "riding picnics" in Wanstead Flats), Mudchute 

Equestrian Centre, mudchute.org/equestrian-centre. 

Please check times/availability online or via the 

websites or phone numbers provided. 

Wonderland Ceramics 

Time to be Creative 

237 Victoria Park 

Road 

E9 7HD 

Ph 020 8985 1214 

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Ceramic Café, 

Pottery Painting, 

unique gifts, Children's 

Birthday Parties, team 

building, and lots of fun 

Price is £39 per day. Discount for 5 to 9 days (£37 

a day), www.wonderlandceramics.com 

or £35 a day if booking 10 days. 

info@wonderlandceramics.com 



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Local businesses 

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Advertising 

Juie Daniels 

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Architect 

Paul Henry 

020 8532 2448 

paulhenryarchitects.com 

Wills 

Derek Lindsey 

020 8491 8396 

expertwillwriter.com 

Web Design 

David Viniker 

020 8508 4760 

firstwebsitedesign.com 

Wealth 

Management 

Clive Lewis 

07957 243 403 

lmpwealth.co.uk 

Utilities 

Steve Pankhurst 

07939 045538 

maketheswitch.info 

Travel 

Darrell James 

020 8911 8889 

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History hangout 

Your end of 

term exam 

12 

Stephen Selby sets the 

questions in the summer 

History Hangout quiz 

13 

1. What was Hackney's Mermaid Tavern most 

famous for 200 years ago? 

2. There is a location in Hackney called the 

Oval. What was it? 

3. Name two of the regicides, plotters of the 

demise of Charles I, who plotted at Barber's Barn 

in Mare Street? 

4. What is the name of the oldest standing 

building in Hackney, and what date was it 

built? 

5. Name two famous music hall personalities who 

appeared regularly at the Hackney Empire. 

6. General William Booth founded what 

institution in Hackney in 1878? 

7. Where did the name Millwall originate? 

8. What was contained in the Old Engine 

House at the 18th-century Wanstead House 

estate? 

9. At the time of the Domesday Book, there 

was a village to the north-east of London called 

Wilcumstou. What is it called today? 

10. How did Dutchman Jacob Jacobsen, 

from Walthamstow, help destroy the wealth 

of many of the richest families in 1720? 

11a. What became of beautiful Balmes House 

(built 1540) in Haggerston? 

11b. What famous nickname came as a 

result of turning Balmes into a special 

institution? 

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History hangout 

12. Name the most famous 17th century English novelist who 

lived in Stoke Newington Church Street? 

13. What famous historical English astronomer was born 

in Haggerston over 350 years ago? 

14. What was London Fields originally used for? 

1 

Image: Victoria & Albert Museum 

4 

8 

5 

Answers: 

1. First balloon flights in England. 

2. The driveway up to the British Female 

Penitent Refuge in Andrews Road. 

3. Oliver Cromwell, John Okey, Henry Ireton, 

Edward Whalley, Owen Roe, 

4. St Augustine's Church Tower 1275 

5. Charlie Chaplin, WC Fields, Stanley 

Holloway, Stan Laurel, Marie Lloyd 

6. The Salvation Army. 

7. Mill Wall was an extremely long Dyke 

surrounding the entire Isle of Dogs built by 

the Dutch in the early 17th century. 

8. A trebuchant. 

9. Walthamstow 

10. He was a director of the company which 

became the catastrophic South Sea Bubble. 

11a. It became a private madhouse. 

11b. Barmy. 

12. Daniel Defoe 1660-1731. 

13. Edmond Halley 1656-1742. 

14. Grazing ground for cattle. 


Style & Substance 

Loïc Lecoutour... is a selfconfessed 

contented loner, a lovely 

quirky individual who is naturally 

curious and creative. A lover of horror 

movies, walks through the city at dawn 

and a creative writer at heart. He also 

happens to own the charming shop The 

Toybox in Victoria Park. 

What's important to you? Literature, 

words, reading, being free to be who I 

want to be, self-discipline, working hard, 

curating spaces & making them pretty. 

What do you love about the East End? 

Victoria Park.I love that it has no Tube 

station; it allows a sense of quiet. I love 

living and working in the area, walking 

out to see many familiar faces & the 

sense of community it provides. Victoria 

Park is another type of London all of its 

own. 

Francesca Castaldo... is 

founder of magpiesloot.com, designer 

& maker of beautiful handmade 

jewellery, mother, businesswoman, 

beautiful lady and co-owner of an 

exciting fashion and jewellery shop, 

opening on Roman Road in September. 

What's important to you? Creativity in 

all senses. Being present for my family 

is foremost, while remaining a driven 

woman in business. I love finding, 

seeing and collecting beautiful things 

to inspire me & my designs. I am a 

natural magpie by nature. 

Interview & portraits: 

Lady Ray, lrcphotography.co.uk 

What do you love about the East End? 

I've lived here for the past decade and 

wouldn't want to live anywhere else in 

London. The diversity, the expanse of 

green sitting close to the urban sprawl; 

spaces and cultures being so easy to 

embrace. It's colourful and vibrant & 

being a creative person, this is where I 

want to be.

Fitness 

Fit post-50 

you started. We will advance this 

programme in future editions. 

Walk: Walking is the secret 

weapon of starting to get fit. It 

can help with weight loss and 

aerobic strength and reduce the 

risk of chronic illnesses. 

Get some comfortable, 

supportive shoes and hit the 

nearest park, raising your pace 

to moderately fast (not a stroll) 

for five minutes to start. Aim to 

build up to 30 minutes. It will be 

great for mind and body. 

Stretch: The years will have 

taken their toll on your flexibility. 

Flexible muscles and joints are 

able to do their jobs properly to 

help your body become mobile 

and stabilised. 

A good stretch to start with is 

for your hamstrings (the back 

of your legs), which suffer 

particularly in modern life. 

Start by sitting on the floor 

with your legs out straight in 

a Y-shape. Creep your fingers 

down beside one leg until you 

have a moderately intense 

stretch. Hold for 30 seconds or 

more. Then swap. Do it three 

times a week. 

Personal trainer Roger Love hosts the 

LoveEast Fitness Forum 

How do you start to get fit when 

you are over 50? 

Fitness is not just a young 

person’s game. Indeed, 

the older you get the more 

important it is to look after 

yourself – so you can live for as 

long and as well as possible. 

However, getting started can 

feel daunting. The key is to start 

steady. Hitting the paths for the 

first time in 30 years for a onehour 

run could well test your 

patience or even end with a visit 

to a physiotherapist. 

Start with simple but significant 

changes. Here are three to get 

Squat: The power of the 

squat and its ability to improve 

strength, burn fat and improve 

flexibility is well known. 

To get started, squat with a 

chair behind you. Try to stop 

just before the chair – it can be 

your safety net in short term – 

but if you need to sit down to 

start with, that is fine too. 

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Eating out 

The music playlist is great and 

so are the bands that play 

six nights a week. A gospel 

choir sings during brunch on 

Sundays. 

It’s loud on all the senses, but 

you can’t help but get your 

groove on. 

Susan Birtwistle finds some hedonistic 

soul in a dark Shoreditch basement 

I’d already written a piece 

this month on a small 

neighbourhood café. I was 

bigging up the importance of 

community, especially after 

the horrors of Westminster, 

Borough and Grenfell had left 

us all reeling. But unfortunately 

it went and closed down 

before LoveEast went 

to print. A shame for 

it, and me. 

So in a total 

contrast I’m eating 

at Red Rooster, 

the popular 

hangout that 

Marcus Samuelsson 

has brought over from 

Harlem. It’s more than American 

soul food – it’s a place that 

celebrates black culture, food 

and music; albeit a super luxe 

version. 

Actually, I’m lucky to eat at 

all, as somehow I’d managed 

to arrive two hours after my 

reservation and there was no 

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longer a table. Before I know it, 

I’m standing there saying, "but 

I’m doing a review, there must 

be something". 

Luckily they’re nice, and a while 

later I’m sitting in an extremely 

dark basement using my phone 

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Downstairs is 

much better than 

upstairs. 

Downstairs is 

where the superbling 

and brash 

fun stuff happens. 

You can imagine P 

Diddy or Mariah Carey 

turning up here for dinner. 

Whole chickens turn up at 

tables with a firework up their 

jacksies, being paraded like one 

of those big bottles of booze 

that certain clubs do in order 

to announce that the high 

spenders are in. 

It’s hedonistic and I liked it. 

We started with cocktails and 

slabs of delicious cornbread. 

Then came Sammy’s chicken 'n’ 

waffles with pickles and Fried 

Yardbird with its crispy candylike 

crust, served with a side of 

succotash (a mix of asparagus, 

favas, peas and charred corn). 

It’s big portions of comfort food 

but somehow we squeezed in a 

tasty mint chocolate bavarois. 

Leaving, I saw the sweetest 

elderly couple sitting right at the 

back in a quiet spot. But I won’t 

be bringing in-law Harry. I’ll be 

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Above, chicken 'n' waffles served with 

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Tell us a little bit about Sutton & Sons... 

We're an award-winning, family-owned 

independent fish and chip shop where the 

fish is sustainably sourced from our own 

fishmongers. We started nearly 20 years 

ago and owe a lot of thanks to our loyal 

customers who keep supporting us. 

What makes you different? 

We know that our product is of the best 

quality and comes directly from the fishing 

boats every day, which provides a fresh 

and daily changing menu. We strive to 

offer a variety of exceptional home-cooked 

LoveEast meets Danny 

and Hana Sutton, of 

Sutton & Sons 

everyone who comes through the door 

has the best service experience, as well as 

exceptional food. 

All of our staff have completed a course 

in fishmongery and customer service. 

We really appreciate the feedback we get 

Foodies' chippie? 

You'd batter 

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dishes from grilled catches of the day 

for those watching the calories, to vegan 

prawns and vegetarian burgers so nobody 

feels left out. We think really hard about 

our menu to get across an authentic and 

quality family feeling that attracts foodies 

and not just locals. We're an affordable 

destination to eat in London. 

What's the most important thing in business? 

The most important thing to us is great 

customer service. We want to make sure 

from customers and encourage them to 

do so through our social channels, such 

as Facebook and Twitter to Google and 

Tripadvisor. It’s the best way a business can 

learn and grow. Nobody gets it right every 

time, but if your customers know you are 

listening this goes a long way to help. 

What do your customers say about you? 

Whether it’s a punter’s first time visit or an old 

faithful local, people constantly tell us how 

fresh everything tastes. You really can tell the 

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difference between our top-notch fish and chips 

and somewhere where they use old oil and the 

fish was caught the day before. 

What's cooking? 

Everything! We’ve got all the classics covered; 

cod, haddock, plaice, scampi – all served with our 

proper chips with fluffy middles, and mushy peas. 

For seafood lovers we have moules marinières, 

Cromer crab on toast, super fresh oysters from 

Maldon and calamari. 

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If fish isn’t your thing we have jumbo battered 

Cumberland saveloy and steak & kidney pie with 

mash. For those who want a lighter supper we 

offer grilled trout, mackerel or sea bass with 

seasonal salad. For afters we’ve got a selection of 

Mrs Sutton’s fresh homemade cakes and desserts 

but the one most people know us for is our sticky 

toffee pudding – it’s popular all year round. 

We also celebrate relevant national days 

throughout the year to offer our customers 

The Dream Team, Danny and Hana 

deals and new menus – we shout about it on 

social media so people know what’s coming up. 

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The wine guide 

Eugenio Ciccarelli 

explains a current 

buzzword in the 

wine-drinking 

world 

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“Authentic ” is a buzzword that 

has been circulating in the wine 

business for a certain amount 

of time, even before 2011 when 

the book Authentic Wine was 

published. But what is in reality 

an “authentic wine”? 

First of all, the wine has to 

be made from excellent and 

genuine grapes and it also 

needs to satisfy the concerns 

and requests from an increasing 

number of consumers for 

a more eco-friendly and 

sustainable viticulture. This is 

often, but not always, achieved 

by the producers using the 

organic and biodynamic 

guidelines which do not 

allow, for example, synthetic 

chemicals in the vineyard. 

Once in the cellar and 

during the whole process of 

vinification, the wine needs 

to be produced in the most 

natural way, adding as little 

as possible and with the least 

manipulation possible. Most 

importantly, an authentic wine 

must be a high-quality product 

that represents the place and 

the traditions of where it comes 

from, using, for example, local 

grape varieties and methods of 

production. 

That’s why Vinarius only 

imports and sell wines from 

small producers who cultivate 

Authentic wines 

manifesto 

their vineyards and only vinify 

their grapes. Most of the wines 

currently sold on the UK 

market are manufactured on an 

industrial scale by big bottlers, 

who normally buy and blend 

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sometimes hundreds of 

miles apart. For us, an 

authentic quality wine can 

only be made by a small 

winery, which has the 

complete control of the 

whole process. 

The Rivetti family in 

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their own vineyards using 

local grape varieties, only 

natural fermentation (no 

added yeasts), minimum 

use of sulphates and no 

filtration. 

Their signature wine is arguably 

the Barbaresco which follows 

the Piedmontese philosophy of 

ageing the wine in big Slavonian 

oak barrels for over 18 months. 

The result is an 

outstanding full-bodied 

red with a complex, 

clean bouquet (violet 

and morello cherry), a 

soft but firm tannin and 

an elegant finish. 

Vinarius imports 

Massimo Rivetti's wines 

and regularly hosts wine 

tastings. 

Vinarius is a wine 

merchant and enoteca 

located at 536 Roman 

Road, E3. It regulary 

organises tasting events, 

check vinarius.london for 

details. 

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Eating in 

will prevent the dough from 

sticking to the forms. 

Next wash, pit and cut the 

apricots into quarters. Mix 

ground cardamom and ground 

almonds in a small bowl and set 

aside. 

Pour the dough into the tartlet 

forms, leaving 1cm to the edge. 

Dip the apricots into the almond 

and cardamom mix and arrange 

on top of the dough, almond 

mix side facing down. Bake for 

45 minutes till golden brown. 

Gluten-free apricot 

tartlets with fresh mint 

Diana Warrings suggests a tasty and 

healthy dessert for your next barbecue 

To serve, sprinkle the tartlets 

with some of the ground 

almond and cardamom mix and 

top with freshly chopped mint. 

They are good cold, too, so you 

can prepare them in advance, if 

you like. If needed they can be 

warmed up in the oven for 10 

minutes at 160C before serving. 

A scoop of vanilla ice cream also 

works a treat. 

Diana Warrings is a qualified 

nutritional therapist cooking 

delicious and healthy food, shared 

on irmagreen.com 

It was Alexander the Great who 

brought apricots to Europe. 

These delicate and delicious 

golden orange fruit are super 

healthy, not only providing 

a good amount of fibre, 

potassium and iron, but they 

are also rich in the carotenes 

lutein and lycopene, which 

give them their lovely colour 

and have been shown to be 

beneficial for eye and skin 

health. 

This quick and easy apricot 

tartlet recipe is the perfect 

dessert for your next dinner 

party or BBQ. 

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Method 

I hope you enjoy making it as 

much as you'll enjoy eating it. 

Add the soft butter and soaked 

dates to a food processor and 

mix until light and fluffy. Next 

add the egg and the quark and 

mix until nice and creamy. Now, 

gradually add the flour, mix until 

everything is combined into a 

thick creamy dough. Set aside. 

Pre-heat the oven to 200C (Gas 

6) and prepare 6 x 12cm tartlet 

forms by brushing them with a 

little butter or coconut oil. This 

Ingredients (for 4-6) 

125g butter (at room temp) 

8 (60g) soaked dates (soak for 

at least 2-3 hours) 

1 egg 

100g of quark cheese 

180g of tiger nut or almond 

flour 

300g ripe apricots 

30g ground almonds 

4 cardamom pods or ½ -1 tsp 

of ground cardamom 

6 sprigs of fresh mint

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