Guide to Shoreditch05/11/2026 The Salvation Army bought the Eagle, the City Road pub in Pop Goes the Weasel, in 1882 to stop people drinking there, then found its lease made it keep a licence to sell beer
Shoreditch News05/11/2026 Hackney Council wants its smoke-control rules to cover boats moored on the borough’s waterways, which would limit boaters to approved stoves or fuel, and objections are open until 22 January
Guide to Shoreditch05/11/2026 James Parkinson, the Hoxton Square surgeon who first described Parkinson’s disease, was questioned by the Privy Council in 1794 over a supposed plot to kill George III with a poisoned dart fired from a pop-gun
Guide to ShoreditchbyMade in Shoreditch05/11/2026 The Salvation Army bought the Eagle, the City Road pub in Pop Goes the Weasel, in 1882 to stop people drinking there, then found its lease made it keep a licence to sell beer
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch05/11/2026 Hackney Council wants its smoke-control rules to cover boats moored on the borough’s waterways, which would limit boaters to approved stoves or fuel, and objections are open until 22 January
Guide to ShoreditchbyMade in Shoreditch05/11/2026 James Parkinson, the Hoxton Square surgeon who first described Parkinson’s disease, was questioned by the Privy Council in 1794 over a supposed plot to kill George III with a poisoned dart fired from a pop-gun
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch05/11/2026 Sleepwalk Immersive, the company behind the sell-out Bacchanalia, is taking over all four floors of Hoxton Hall from 23 February with CAESAR, a version of Julius Caesar set in the criminal underworld of 1940s Chinatown
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch05/11/2026 Malam Gardens in Poplar, the last street in east London still lit by gas, could lose its lamps after residents asked Tower Hamlets Council for permission to replace them with LED lights
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch05/11/2026 Tameka Empson and Paterson Joseph will star in Noises Off at Theatre Royal Stratford East from 5 February, opening a 2027 season that also brings back Winsome Pinnock’s Talking in Tongues for the first time since 1991
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch05/11/2026 Zaha Hadid’s former studio on Bowling Green Lane in Clerkenwell has opened to the public as the Zaha Hadid Foundation, with a free show of her stage sets for the Pet Shop Boys
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch05/11/2026 Swiss Butter, the Beirut steakhouse known for the queues outside its Holborn restaurant, is opening on Bethnal Green Road in Shoreditch, after a South Kensington site that takes its first diners on 7 November
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch05/11/2026 Lenny Henry, Nish Kumar and Tameka Empson are among seven new patrons of Hackney Empire as the Mare Street theatre marks 125 years, with Clive Rowe’s Jack and the Beanstalk opening on 21 November
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch05/11/2026 Ian McKellen’s Lear sold out the rebuilt Yard Theatre in Hackney Wick in under 30 minutes, so seven Christmas and New Year shows have been added, with £5 seats on the door for under-27s
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch03/11/2026 The Barbican Conservatory will give away plant cuttings for the last time on 2 December before it closes for restoration, with 700 free tickets handed out by a ballot that closes on 19 November
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch03/11/2026 Tortoise play Hackney Church on 4 November and Pitchfork London’s Dalston Takeover fills five venues on 7 November