“West Ham's mascot is a hammer, with a big hammer head, and he goes by the name of Hammerhead. A hammer, of course, is a tool that delivers a blow with sudden impact and the heads are genuinely made of steel. The origin of a hammer as a mascot possibly stems from East London’s proud shipbuilding history and West Ham’s start in life as Thames Ironworks F.C. in the late 19th century. So a mascot dressed as a hammer is a rather imposing figure, and true to form Hammerhead never deviates from the role he his playing. He’s as broad-shouldered as he is tall, strutting around the ground with a real geezer walk and I couldn’t help but applaud the East London sense of humour. Hammerhead sets the scene for 90-minutes of banter, and I for one loved it!” Football QuotesWest HamEast LondonWest Ham Quotes Book:Gunpowder Soup Source: Gunpowder Soup
“I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.” KindHas BeensKidsAgeSeriousBeatsEnglandNotesEastLondonBoxingCanadaTwelveAccentsTauntingCockneysEast London Author:Lennox Lewis
“I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.” SurpriseEastLondonDrivenDrivingEast London Author:Zaha Hadid
“I spent a lot of time with a real detective, a lady detective inspector who was the only female detective inspector in the whole of East London. She and I hung out a lot. She showed me what she did and I spent time with her. So, [she was] a lot of the inspiration for the way I dressed and sometimes the dialogue in those interview scenes where we're cross examining and questioning the youths and trying to get a confession out of them.” WayTryingRealSometimesWholeInspirationYouthSceneFemaleCrossesEastLondonDialogueInterviewsQuestioningConfessionHungDetectivesExaminingInspectorsEast London Author:Emily Mortimer
“I'm going to Queen Mary's [university] in East London and I am trying to juggle it. Sometimes, it's really hard.” TryingSometimesHardUniversityEastLondonQueensMaryEast London Author:Yasmin Paige
“Obviously my own work comes from a conceptual art tradition, but I love the graffiti artists, and I feel spiritually closer to them than to most contemporary art; they make the city a free space of diverse voices and we shouldn't get all cynical about them just because Banksy made some money. I collaborate sometimes with Krae, who is an old school east London graffiti writer.” FeelsArtMadeSometimesSchoolArtistVoiceMy OwnSpaceCitiesTraditionEastLondonContemporaryCynicalDiverseOld SchoolGraffitiContemporary ArtConceptual ArtGraffiti ArtistEast London Author:Robert Montgomery
“Famously in 1936, Oswald Mosley led a march of his British black shirts through a mostly Jewish neighborhood, in the east end of London. What resulted was what they called the "Battle of Cable Street", where Oswald Mosley and his fascists basically got the snot beaten out of them when East London rose up against them and beat them up.” EndsBlackStreetsBattleBeatsRoseBritishEastLondonShirtsNeighborhoodMarchBeatenCablesFascistsEast London Author:Rachel Maddow
“Traditional British desserts with lots of custard are my biggest weakness - I particularly love the puds at St. John restaurant in East London.” WeaknessBritishEastLondonTraditionalRestaurantsDessertCustardEast London Author:Eva Green
“My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.” FirstsStudentsVoteEastLondonMedicalMy TimeLabourCommunistEast London Author:Robert Winston
“It is white. - when asked what the White house was like by a student in East London” HouseWhiteStudentsEastLondonSillyWhite HouseEast London Author:George W. Bush