ADVERTISER ‘PAPER OF THE YEAR’—2ND YEAR RUNNING

THE East London Advertiser has just been voted Britain’s best local weekly newspaper. It won the media industry’s ‘Newspaper of the Year’ for the second year running and also scooped ‘Campaign of the Year’ in the prestigious Press Gazette awards... » MORE

Now let’s restore democratic input in town planning

THE leader of Tower Hamlets Council is to be congratulated on his clear statement that the Town Hall will retain Bancroft Archive and Local History Library. He declared: “It will not be sold.” A courageous decision of the present council leadership would be to restore the democratic input into planning as it exists in almost all other local authorities...

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Ask the people if they want Bancroft sold, PM tells Town Hall leaders

By Ted Jeory PRIME Minister Gordon Brown has told Tower Hamlets council to consult residents before selling Bancroft Library to Queen Mary College. But although the Government today told the Advertiser it recognised the proposed sale was an emotive issu...

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Londoners also want to find out about their ancestors, Boris

Dear Editor, MAYOR of London Boris Johnson will be supported by public resources in finding out about his family history as the subject of the BBC’s Who do you think you are? programme. Hopefully, he will make the connection with Londoners who also want to find out about their ancestors at the Bancroft...

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Bancroft gave us ‘low down’ on Sir Alan Sugar

Dear Editor, IT WAS through using the genealogical research material at the Bancroft Local History Library that I was able to discover the ancestry of the prominent East End millionaire Sir Alan Sugar...

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Bancroft not for point scoring—but common sense

Dear Editor, MAYOR of London Boris Johnson and his cultural team have been briefed extensively about our heritage library at Bancroft in Mile End. This is not a matter for partisan point scoring, but for common sense...

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‘Who do you think you are’ shunting Bancroft? as Patsy Kensit finds her roots

PLANS to scatter the famous Bancroft Archives out to separate locations across London’s East End have been dealt a major blow this week. One of the proposed destinations has refused to take the collection. This has now forced Tower Hamlets to postpone yet again a decision on the controversial sale of the Grade II building—used recently by film and soap star Patsy Kensit to research her East End roots for the BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? documentary series...

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Leave Bancroft where it is—not much left of old East End!

Dear Editor, THE Bancroft Archives and Local History Library at Mile End should stay were it is—in Bancroft Road! Leave it alone. There is not much left of London’s old East End...

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