A new look for Stroudley Walk

The parade of shops, food outlets and services that people in Bromley-by-Bow have used for years has been transformed, with new places for everyone to sit, play, meet friends and spend time outdoors.

You’ll find new children’s play spaces, green spaces, outdoor gym and table tennis equipment and Minnie’s Coffee and Food, a new community café.

The first new play area and pocket park sits opposite Minnie’s while a second play area can be found in a new public courtyard behind it, so children can play close by.

For Stroudley Walk businesses, the glow up of their shopping parade creates more reasons for people to spend time in the area.

Dilwar Khan, Bromley Furniture, said:

“We’ve been trading at Stroudley Walk for nearly 30 years and have seen customers come and go, but one thing that has always been a consistent thread throughout is the community of this place.

With the hoarding now gone and the construction complete, we hope we will get more customers coming through our doors.”

Stroudley’s role in history

The new public spaces also celebrate Stroudley Walk’s connections to the East End women who campaigned for the right to vote.

Minnie’s is named after local activist and suffragette Minnie Lansbury.

Public artwork next to the café, designed by Bow Arts, highlights Minnie Lansbury’s legacy and those of other East end women who helped shape history. A stunning purple and green roundel, in the colours of the Suffragette movement, stands on the gate, while a blue plaque soon to go up in the courtyard behind, will be easily reached via Minnie’s café.

Sylvia (Estelle) Pankhurst, who led the East London Federation of Suffragettes, made one of her earliest public speeches in the East End at Stroudley Walk alongside fellow campaigner Zelie Emerson. Their legacy is reflected in the names of two new residential buildings overlooking the shopping parade.

Stroudley Walk regeneration

We delivered the regeneration of Stroudley Walk in partnership with developers Muse, McAleer & Rushe contractor, RM_A Architects and the Greater London Authority.

The scheme has provided a total of 274 new homes, including:

• 82 new affordable rent homes, now occupied by local families previously on the Tower Hamlets housing register
• Two of the affordable rent homes are autism-friendly, designed in line with the borough’s pioneering guidance
• 33 new shared ownership homes at The Beacon Bow

A new business is expected to join those that have long been part of the Stroudley Walk community soon.