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#664: Remember the Widow’s Son with a Hot Cross Bun

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London’s old East End is changing fast, but some fantastic traditions have stuck. One of my favourites is at The Widow’s Son pub in Bow, where we gathered on Good Friday with hot cross buns to remember a sailor who never returned from war. East London has traditionally been a working-class neighbourhood, and even though that’s being scrubbed away at an ever-increasing rate since the docks were closed, you can still …

Pig Out in the Newman Arms Pie Room in Fitzrovia

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Update: The Newman Arms Pie Room has closed and re-opened since I’ve been there, so things have likely changed. London Thing 3 of 1000: Eat in the pie room at the Newman Arms. My name is Lauren, and I’m a pie-a-holic.  But this hasn’t always been a problem, you see. I’ve discovered that I have some kind of genetic mutation where my constantly grumbling stomach is a long-lost relic of the …