please empty your brain below

Roman Tackle angling shop bring next door to the Saucy Kipper fish’n’chip shop always brings a smile to my face.

In all the years of lived here I’ve never seen the level crossing-style traffic signals outside Bethnal Green fire station being used when fire engines leave. Recently TfL spent a few days replacing all of these, plus a standard vertical set of traffic lights outside the station doors, with new ones. They’re still not used so I’m still not quite sure of their purpose.
My favourite Roman Road shop is Abbott’s, who have provided us with carpets and good old-fashioned chipper East End service several times over the last couple of decades, most recently during last year’s lockdown.
I'm disappointed there isn't a travel agents called Roman Holiday
'Roman Baths' is actually quite clever!
“Concealing from nobody’s view” surely means they are still on show?

dg writes: never risk a surely.
A slightly different account of the name Twig Folly (which doesn't involve a gun) can be found in a historic commissioner's report on the 1834 Poor Law. The supposed folly became a success for a basket maker turned developer who built affordable housing in Bethnal Green for weavers "removed" from Spitalfields.

"There is in Bethnal Green a place called Twig Folly, from a basket-maker of Spitalfields who first began to build there. It was called Twig Folly, because it was considered folly to build houses there, as it was believed he would never get them inhabited, but there are now I believe a thousand or fifteen hundred weavers on the spot."
Missed opportunity: a lighting shop 'Roman in the Gloaming".
Just based on the Google street view, The Roman Road/B119 is the place to go if you need a haircut or a pastry.
Hooray for Globe Town Squares Greggs while great woefulness for the sad loss of every Percy Ingles, much lamentation through the land.
Fascinating snapshot, as ever! I realise that I can now claim to have visited every Greggs on the B119.










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