Olympic Park 2012

Your Unofficial Guide to East London, the New Park & the 2012 Olympics

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Entries from October 2011

Guided Walks

October 9th, 2011 · No Comments

Street Market Walks: Walking tours of local markets, some of which might not be around much longer if new developments happen. Designed by Sandra Shevey a former biographer (John Lennon etc.) turns her hand to giving a flavour of local oral history & neighbourhood identity.

Murder Mystery: A spooky evening walk build around the east end serial killer of the late 1800s. Tours are guided by a crime historian Donald Rumbelow and part of ‘London Walks’ one of the larger walking tours company.

Radical History: Tours by a local east-end historian David Rosenberg with an anti-fascist focus. He brings out the melting pot and social revolutionary history of this side of London.

I’ll keep my eyes out for more…

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Tags: An East London Tour · Local Legacy of 2012

Participatory Art Competition

October 7th, 2011 · 3 Comments


An art award from CREATE, the cultural partnership of the six east London boroughs which surround the Olympic Park, is now open for submissions. Any resident of Barking and Dagenham, Greenwich, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets or Waltham Forest can enter to win a commission of 50,000 GBP. Details here : http://createlondon.org/art-award-call-for-submissions/

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Tags: Olympics 2012 Delivery