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 Shoreditch26/10/2026 A plaque to Newton Dunbar and the Four Aces, the Dalston club where Desmond Dekker and Jimmy Cliff played, is due to go up on Collins Tower, facing the site of the club that was knocked down in 2007
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch26/10/2026 18th Floor, a rooftop restaurant and bar on top of The Gantry hotel in Stratford, opens for dinner on Thursday 29 October, with steaks for sharing, Scottish lobster and DJs at weekends
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch26/10/2026 Barbs, the Bajan restaurant at the Queen of Hoxton, has started a Friday night fish fry on Curtain Road modelled on Oistins in Barbados, with 90 minutes of bottomless rum punch for £20 with a main
Guide to ShoreditchbyMade in Shoreditch25/10/2026 Shoreditch was not named after Jane Shore, the royal mistress said to have died in a ditch there: the name was written down as Soredich around 1148, about 300 years before she was born
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch25/10/2026 Spiritland has opened a listening bar for 100 people in the Barbican’s Lakeside Room, where a full album is played every day at 5pm, and it stays open only until July 2027
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch25/10/2026 Roast, the Borough Market restaurant, has opened its second site inside the Virgin hotel on Curtain Road in Shoreditch, serving breakfast from 7am and a separate halal Sunday roast menu
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch25/10/2026 House of Hackney is holding what it calls its biggest sample sale yet at The Box in Hackney from 6 to 8 November, with up to 80% off and a £2 entry fee that goes to Hackney Food Bank
Guide to ShoreditchbyMade in Shoreditch24/10/2026 In 1897 Shoreditch began burning its rubbish to light its streets, and the power station that did it on Coronet Street is now the National Centre for Circus Arts
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch24/10/2026 Howl At The Moon in Hoxton can let 30 people drink outside until 10pm and 20 after that, after Hackney councillors approved its licence change despite residents who say drinkers push pedestrians into the road
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch24/10/2026 Lou Sanders is curating the next Empire Nights at Hackney Empire on 29 January, with Joe Lycett, Ayoade Bamgboye and Figs in Wigs on the bill and tickets from £17.50
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch24/10/2026 2000 AD, the British comic that gave the world Judge Dredd, will celebrate its 50th birthday with a two-day event at Protein Studios in Shoreditch on 6 and 7 March 2027
Guide to ShoreditchbyMade in Shoreditch23/10/2026 Shakespeare’s company took apart their Shoreditch playhouse over Christmas 1598 while the landlord was away, and its timbers went into building the Globe