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LoveTowerHamlets Heritage: London's Living History
Rooted in multiple layers of history, with foundations formed in Roman times and a recorded history stretching back for 1,000 years.

Museum of Docklands

A Global East End

Step into Tower Hamlets and walk through centuries of London history. Once the gateway to global trade, our borough has always been a place of arrival.

Skilled Huguenot weavers found refuge in Spitalfields, followed by Jewish communities escaping persecution, and later the Bangladeshi community who shaped areas like Brick Lane, each leaving the borough better than they found it.

This history includes a proud spirit of activism: from the 1888 Match Girls' Strike in Bow and Sylvia Pankhurst's Suffragette work, to the community solidarity shown at the Battle of Cable Street.

Forged in the fire of the Blitz and built on industries from textiles to shipbuilding, Tower Hamlets embodies resilience. Explore this layered past at the Museum of London Docklands or simply by wandering our historic streets.

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Rooftops and a church