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 Shoreditch31/10/2026 Ceilidh, a new musical in which the audience gets up and dances, has opened at Shoreditch Town Hall for a run until 13 November, with tickets from £25 and a Tony-winning director
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch31/10/2026 Moth Club in Hackney says it is out of danger after the council refused a second plan for flats next to the venue, which had warned that complaints from new neighbours could force it to close
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch31/10/2026 Acme Taco opens its second site at 40ft Brewery in Dalston on Sunday 1 November, next door to Acme Fire Cult, with free tacos for the first 50 people through the door
Guide to ShoreditchbyMade in Shoreditch28/10/2026 Hoxton Hall lost its music hall licence in 1871 after police complaints, eight years after it opened on Hoxton Street, and spent the next century as a temperance mission and a Quaker institute
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch28/10/2026 Pulse, a new restaurant whose menu is built around beans and pulses, is opening at 227-229 Hoxton Street with two free soft-launch dinners on 18 and 19 November
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch28/10/2026 Hackney Council has launched a night map showing toilets, drinking water, phone charging and routes home near its accredited venues, and is handing out keyrings that link to it on Rivington Street in Shoreditch on 30 and 31 October
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch28/10/2026 All My Gods, the Bethnal Green dive bar known for £8 martinis from a machine, will close after a Halloween party on Saturday 31 October, and its general manager plans to reopen the site as The Third House Collective
Guide to ShoreditchbyMade in Shoreditch28/10/2026 Hoxton House, the private asylum on Hoxton Street where Charles Lamb spent six weeks, held 484 people in 1815, among them 152 officers and men of the Royal Navy
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch28/10/2026 Yokimono, the Japanese makers’ market, is holding its autumn sample sale at The Factory on Shacklewell Lane in Dalston on 7 and 8 November, with more than 30 small businesses a day and free entry
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch28/10/2026 E. Pellicci, the Bethnal Green cafe that has been open since 1900, is taking its pasta, ragù and school cake to the Brass Rail at Selfridges from 2 November for the salt beef counter’s 60th birthday
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch28/10/2026 Phoebe Bridgers will headline All Points East in Victoria Park on Friday 27 August 2027, with an all-female support bill and presale tickets from 10am on Wednesday 28 October
Guide to ShoreditchbyMade in Shoreditch26/10/2026 Alfred Hitchcock learned to make films in a converted railway power station on Poole Street in Hoxton, and The Lady Vanishes was shot there in 1938