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Exploring London’s creativity and culture through the people, projects, and events shaping the city today.

Northern line platform at Embankment tube station

Creative Living

byMade in Shoreditch

22/10/2026

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

Tower Bridge bascules raised over the Thames

Creative Living

byMade in Shoreditch

22/10/2026

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

Creative Living

byMade in Shoreditch

21/10/2026

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

Crowd of visitors photographing the Mona Lisa at the Louvre

Creativity & Culture

byMade in Shoreditch

21/10/2026

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

The Golden Gate Bridge seen from Marshall's Beach, San Francisco, with the Marin Headlands behind it

Creativity & Culture

byMade in Shoreditch

19/10/2026

The Golden Gate Bridge is orange because its steel arrived in red lead primer and Irving Morrow, commuting by ferry, liked that colour enough to specify International Orange in April 1935. The US Navy wanted black and yellow stripes.

byMade in Shoreditch

17/10/2026

The Statesman, KAREN and Oscar at the Crown: three London shows in the Made in Shoreditch archive

byMade in Shoreditch

17/10/2026

Punchdrunk’s Felix Barrett and Steve McCourt on masks and casting the audience as the protagonist

Old Street roundabout, the former Silicon Roundabout

byMade in Shoreditch

17/10/2026

Marshmallows posted as letters: FundApps, Boomf and Splittable founders on the Silicon Roundabout years

byMade in Shoreditch

16/10/2026

Rivington Grill closed in 2017 and Fifteen in 2019. Simon Wadham and Andrew Parkinson cooked there

View of street art on the front of Shoreditch tube station on Pedley Street - geograph.org.uk - 7828536

Creativity & Culture

byMade in Shoreditch

15/10/2026

A self-guided Shoreditch street art walk: the streets to see and how long it takes

The Beautiful Truth 73 Redchurch Street 2023-03-28

Creativity & Culture

byMade in Shoreditch

15/10/2026

Mad Cats, Bun House Disco and the rise of Shoreditch listening bars

Creativity & Culture

byMade in Shoreditch

15/10/2026

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

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

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

Creativity & Culture

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

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

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

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

The Golden Gate Bridge is orange because its steel arrived in red lead primer and Irving Morrow, commuting by ferry, liked that colour enough to specify International Orange in April 1935. The US Navy wanted black and yellow stripes.

The Statesman, KAREN and Oscar at the Crown: three London shows in the Made in Shoreditch archive

Punchdrunk’s Felix Barrett and Steve McCourt on masks and casting the audience as the protagonist

Marshmallows posted as letters: FundApps, Boomf and Splittable founders on the Silicon Roundabout years

Rivington Grill closed in 2017 and Fifteen in 2019. Simon Wadham and Andrew Parkinson cooked there

A self-guided Shoreditch street art walk: the streets to see and how long it takes

Mad Cats, Bun House Disco and the rise of Shoreditch listening bars

Fifteen years of Shoreditch creatives on walls, rent and making work in East London

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