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🏳️🌈Happy Pride Month🏳️🌈
This June let's celebrate together & spotlight our amazing culture & community. Throughout #PrideMonth there is so much to enjoy across Camden & Islington!
Join with forum+ & connect with the LGBT community in #Camden & #Islington -https://t.co/KZ4d4AGzyS
These cottages on Newington Green Road were built in the 18th century, when the area was fields. Yesterday, they were prominent on Arsenal's parade route. Discover the history of the Islington streets on the route:
https://t.co/QUcYxf3Oj8
#Arsenal#Islington#Highbury#Holloway
Tomorrow Tuesday 19 May we throw our doors open 11-4pm for three days to welcome visitors to our Clerkenwell Design Week @CDWfestival fringe
Pop in and check out our wonderful collaboration with students at the University of the Creative Arts!
https://t.co/gdUlwqJmBd
Great free event coming up this Thu at @MarxLibrary
Reds on the Green - Walter Crane & the Twentieth Century Press. Thu 14 May 6-8pm
An evening of art, history, & collective creativity
https://t.co/VmIiJ9j1Rn
It's Mental Health Awareness Week, if you live or work in the Square Mile, support is available:
🫖 Dragon Café in the City – free wellbeing sessions
💬 Mind in the City – counselling & advocacy
📞 City Advice – free, confidential advice
Find support 👉 https://t.co/tG8yS6HPOL
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
Help build a Community Emergency Plan for extreme heat & power outages
Work with children, families, older people or those with health needs? Join our Islington workshop - Thurs 14 May, 10am–1pm.
Limited spaces – click here to sign up and for more info:
https://t.co/yXJAE37Zz6
My next tour of Spitalfields is Saturday May 16. Join me for ramble through 2000 years of culture and history at the heart of old London followed by tea and cakes freshly baked to recipe of 1720 served in a 300 year old house overlooking Christ Church. https://t.co/fcj3uslAsV
'The Trial of the Pyx' is not something from Harry Potter, but a test of coins made by the Royal Mint. It (almost always) takes place at Goldsmiths’ Hall in the City of London. More about this 800 year old ceremony at https://t.co/8KUu5j2cqH
#trialofthepyx#Goldsmiths#royalmint
Ready. Set. Activate. There’s a new game in town!
Surya Anthony puts Activate Islington Square to the test, and barely makes it out unscathed.
Read the full article on our website - https://t.co/tzm3oVkyQg
The Peel's latest newsletter is out now!
You can pick up a copy from the community centre, and from next week you can also pick it up in Finsbury library, several local doctors’ surgeries, and other local outlets.
https://t.co/60gBfGFOSd
On Friday 15th May forum+ is hosting an online information session for International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia
#IDAHOBIT At the Heart of Democracy will provide an update on LGBT rights internationally, in Europe & in the UK
🎟️https://t.co/mhaIfPRtkB🏳️🌈
New on my blog: London’s lesser known, or lesser noticed, public clocks - time pieces that tell a tale. For my selection of ten less celebrated clocks of the capital, please click on this link: https://t.co/iO7N6flsTb
#clocks#londonclocks#architecture#londonstreets#art
This week's newsletter of stories & local listings is out! https://t.co/ErL8v2RmBK
From vinyl to tweed, UFOs to secret gardens, the story of the 'Cockney Sikh', & an exploration of vice & depravity, we have lots to keep you busy this weekend & beyond!
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Everyone in the neighbourhood knows Sandra Esqulant, beloved landlady of the Golden Heart in Commercial St, sometime hula-hoop dancer, darling of the contemporary art world and the uncrowned monarch of Spitalfields.
Learn more about the Sandra on my tour: https://t.co/XPwhSDJE9R
Scenes around, and above, Guildhall this afternoon - including visitors to the permanent exhibition at @GuildhallArt; Guildhall Yard (the site of London's Roman Amphitheatre) and the City's skyline as seen from the roof terrace of Guildhall's West Wing, and a model of Tower Bridge on a huge map at @nlalondon.
The Peel is a charity at the heart of our community supporting the people of Clerkenwell and the surrounding areas for over 100 years.
The generosity of our supporters plays a vital role in making this happen.
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