Bow, London

Bow is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It has a postal code of E3 and is 4.6 miles (7.4 km) east north-east of Charing Cross.

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Victoria Park, the so-called "lungs of the East End", is located in here. Bow is often mistaken as the home of the Bow Bells, which actually reside at St Mary-le-Bow Church, Cheapside, in the City of London. It was also the site of the headquarters and maintenance depot of the North London Railway. During World War 2 the first German V1 rocket to fall on London fell here close to the railway bridge over Grove Road. The Match Girl's strike at the Bryant and May match factory in the 1880s, which was part of the overall suffragette movement, occurred here. Today, the former match factory has been turned into apartments and is known as Bow Quarter.

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Nearest tube stations are:

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• Mile End
• Bow Road
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London Borough of Tower Hamlets: The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a London borough to the east of the City of London and north of the River Thames in East London....

E3: The Electronic Entertainment Expo (or Exposition), commonly known as E? or E3 , is the world's largest annual trade show and the third largest gaming convention for the computer and video games industry. The expo is only open to game industry professionals and journalists who are over 18....

Charing Cross: The name Charing Cross, now given to a district of central London in the City of Westminster, comes from the original hamlet of Charing, where King Edward I placed a memorial to his wife, Eleanor of Castile....




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