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 Shoreditch23/10/2026 The Three Sheets brothers are opening Berryman’s, a 20-person standing-only martini and oyster bar two doors from their original Dalston bar, on 13 November
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch23/10/2026 Magician Harry Milas is bringing a new show directed by Patrick Marber to the rooms beneath Shoreditch Town Hall for three weeks from 20 November, with tickets at £20
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch23/10/2026 York Hall in Bethnal Green, the boxing venue whose ring has hosted Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, will stay closed until January at the earliest after Legionella was found in its water
Creative LivingbyMade in Shoreditch22/10/2026 The Mind the Gap voice at Embankment tube station belongs to an actor who died in 2007, and TfL brought it back in 2013 because his widow asked
Creative LivingbyMade in Shoreditch22/10/2026 A London bus jumped the gap when Tower Bridge began to open under it on 30 December 1952, and the driver was given £10 and a day off
Dining in ShoreditchbyMade in Shoreditch22/10/2026 Shops near Old Street station: where to buy clothes, records and bikes on foot from the junction, and which shops have moved away
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch22/10/2026 Alex Proud is opening Maison Cabaret, a dinner, burlesque and dancing night in the railway arches at 83 Rivington Street in Shoreditch, from 20 November
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch22/10/2026 Joe Whale, the artist known as The Doodle Boy, opens his first major London solo show at the Truman Brewery on Brick Lane this weekend, aged 16
Creative LivingbyMade in Shoreditch21/10/2026 Hawaiian pizza was invented in Canada in 1962 by a Greek immigrant, who named it after the brand on the tin of pineapple he used
Creativity & CulturebyMade in Shoreditch21/10/2026 The Mona Lisa only became the world’s most famous painting after a former Louvre worker walked out with it on a Monday in August 1911, when the museum was closed
Dining in ShoreditchbyMade in Shoreditch21/10/2026 Cocktail bars in Shoreditch and Hoxton: where to drink, what a cocktail costs and when to book
Shoreditch NewsbyMade in Shoreditch21/10/2026 Smokestak and Manteca are throwing a £15 street party at Protein Studios in Shoreditch on 7 November to mark 15 years between them, with every penny going to charity