On a chilly and wet evening last week, I embarked on a bracing walk from Bethnal Green in east London to Warren Street.
Here’s 40 photos from that walk:
Heading east on the Central Line.
Once described as an ‘absolute shithole’ the Dundee Arms at 339 Cambridge Heath Road has transformed into an on-trend drinking den, with exposed brickwork and a wooden panelled bar.
Find them on Facebook and Instagram as DundeeArmsE2.
The Vagina Museum is the world’s first brick and mortar museum about the female reproductive system. The project is based at 276 Poyser St, E2 9RF.
The former Flower Pot Public House, Teesdale Street, Bethnal Green.
Street art, tears, a telephone box and free chairs.
I’d visited the bijou Union Gallery to see the wonderful Jen Orpin: We Left Nothing Behind exhibition.
The intricate paintings documented deserted highways – the kind of stuff that’s right up my strasse!
Sam says hi.
The attractive tiled frontage of The Shakespeare boozer at 460 Bethnal Green Road.
Artisanal cocktail bars are the footsoldiers of gentrification.
The now closed G Kelly pie and mash shop, once frequented by the notorious Krays.
The Star of Bethnal Green hosts no less than five Karaoke rooms, each with its own theme.
Old school shops.
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets plumped for traditional Christmas lights, unlike Lambeth’s bizarre offering this year.
Bethnal Green is home to a large Bangladeshi community.
Walking through Shoreditch.
Past the King’s Cross Lighthouse.
The walk finished at Warren Street tube station.
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