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
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch03/11/2026 Mathieu van der Poel and Bradley Wiggins will be on stage at the Truman Brewery on Brick Lane on 12 November, the first night of the three-day Rouleur Live cycling show, with day tickets at £30
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch03/11/2026 Singburi, the Thai restaurant that moved from Leytonstone to Shoreditch High Street last year, is bringing back its Gaeng Pizza Gang pizza with Yard Sale from 4 November, now with a vegan version and Thai chilli garlic bread
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch03/11/2026 The Thirsty Farrier is opening a free Christmas food and cocktail garden in Bishops Square, Spitalfields, from 12 November to Christmas Eve, with six independent kitchens and a tasting dish from each
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch03/11/2026 Columbia Road’s shops will stay open until 9pm on four Wednesdays before Christmas, starting on 25 November, with mulled wine and mince pies but no carol singing or road closure again this year
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch01/11/2026 Wingerz Wingz, the Tottenham chicken wing brand behind apple crumble wings, opens at Boxpark Shoreditch on Friday 6 November with free wings for the first 20 people and £1.50 wings on launch day
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch01/11/2026 Tattu is opening a floating Chinese restaurant at Canary Wharf on 12 November in the former Marceline site, with four rooms themed on sea dragons and a Saturday brunch from £55
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch01/11/2026 More than 5,000 people signed up for the second Lime bike joust in London Fields, where two knights in chainmail charged at each other on hire bikes on Halloween although Lime says its bikes are not for jousting
Guide to ShoreditchbyMade in Shoreditch31/10/2026 Shoreditch Town Hall heard the whole inquest into Mary Jane Kelly, the last of Jack the Ripper’s five canonical victims, in a single day in November 1888, after jurors protested that she had not died in Shoreditch
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch31/10/2026 Bottle Factory Flea, the vintage market started by the Peckham Car Boot team, brings more than 40 traders to Hackney Bridge on Sunday 8 November, with £5 early entry and £3 after midday
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch31/10/2026 Imad’s Syrian Kitchen, which started as a pop-up on Columbia Road in 2017, opens its second restaurant on Blossom Street in Shoreditch on 18 November with 71 covers and dishes only served there
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch31/10/2026 Voodoo Ray’s, the Dalston pizza restaurant known for 22-inch slices, will stay open under a long-serving member of staff after the company behind it went into liquidation, and Doña is running weekend nights in its basement
Guide to ShoreditchbyMade in Shoreditch31/10/2026 Ben Jonson killed an actor in a duel in Hoxton Fields in 1598 with a sword he said was 10 inches shorter than his opponent’s, and escaped the gallows by reading a verse of the Bible in Latin