On that map there was no City Airport, no cluster of tall commercial buildings in the City of London, and no sign of the Canary Wharf skyscrapers. The urban geography of the East End has changed ...

Virgin Hotels recently opened a Shoreditch outpost in London's East End. Here's what to know before booking your stay. With 120 rooms and a rooftop pool overlooking London's Shoreditch ...

Light shines brightly into the bare first-floor room of 113 Redchurch Street in Spitalfields, east London. "You'd have had silk weavers working here, and weavers on the next floor, and weavers on the ...

Smoked salmon has been a delicacy for years, but it might surprise you that according to one of the UKs most traditional smokehouses you shouldn't be able to taste the smoke at all. H. Forman ...

Nigel Travis is not the first economic migrant to exit London’s East End for a life in the United States. However, not all are investing in the neighbourhood that nurtured them. From his home in ...

His great subject was London’s East End, the Jewish immigrant enclave where he was born in 1926 to Dutch-Jewish parents. His publisher, David Paul, described Kops as “the last of the ...

NARRATOR:'In the 1960's people in the East end of London were still living with the consequences of the Second World War. NARRATOR:'The East End had been badly bombed because the port of London ...

Yiddish was also widely spoken in the East End of London. Towards the end of the 19th century, many Jews came to areas like Spitalfields and Bethnal Green to escape persecution in Europe.

The influx was such that a huge part of London's East End became known as "weaver town" as it transformed into a centre for the trade, led by migrants from across the English Channel. "The first ...