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Plaques celebrate Forest Gate's links to Hendrix and De Underground Records

London, UK.26th May 2021.Blue Plaque marking the site where Jimi Hendrix wrote His hit song, Purpl

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Plaques have gone up in Forest Gate to mark where Jimi Hendrix wrote a musical "masterpiece" and an underground recording studio had its home.
The Royal Primrose Soap Works in Silvertown. Picture: Newham Archives and Local Studies Library

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Volunteers sought to help preserve history of Silvertown and North Woolwich

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Two British sailors and their girlfriends wading in the fountains in Trafalgar Square on VE Day, 8 M

VE Day 75: Call to toast the nation’s heroes 75 years after Victory in...

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Scenes along one of the walks for visitors to Epping Forest

The true story of the fight to preserve Epping Forest

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Women and children celebrating the end of the First World War at the Heath Street Peace Tea Party, c

Armistice 100: How the day so many had been longing for was reported on...

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Hannah Mawdsley. Pic: Tim Stubbings/AHRC

Armistice 100: ‘Death and misery’ at home as the war guns fall silent

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Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery, Zonnebeke, Belgium. When: 24 Sep 2013

Armistice 100: Grave hunters search for the thousands of First World War...

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Making banners for a women's Social and Political (WSPU) rally in 1910. Picture: LSE Library

Suffragette 100: Join thousands of ladies in a celebratory procession...

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Dora Challingsworth, 79, was a shop steward during the 1984 Ford workers strike. Picture: Ken Mears

‘I’m glad I did it’: Ford Dagenham workers recall strikes

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Female sewing machinists at the Ford plant in Dagenham vote to return to work, ending their dispute.

Suffragettes 100: Dagenham sewing machinists strike 50 years ago wasn’t...

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Prominent Suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst lived in Woodford Green for 30 years. Picture: Eastside Commu

Suffragettes100: Sylvia Pankhurst scandalised the neighbours

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Teacher Joshua Alford and pupils Raul Simmons-Perez, 16, and Nico Zavrou Blackstock, 16, from East B

First World War centenary: Battlefields trip day three

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Police officers at the Barking Abbey service (pictures: Steve Poston)

First World War: Police rally to remember officers from across east...

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