I grew up in southeast London and there's a lot of brutalist architecture. — Kate Herron Copy Share Image
I was an only child. Both my parents came from working-class families in Hackney, east London. — Tony Robinson Copy Share Image
Every household down my road in Peckham, south-east London, stunk of deep-fat frying and I'm sure every working-class home around the country… — Gregg Wallace Copy Share Image
I have the tools to climb the mountain so I don't mind climbing mountains. I have climbed mountains since I was growing… — Sol Campbell Copy Share Image
I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is no surprise I became an entertainer because many of my relatives were natural performers. Dad, who had a fine… — Vera Lynn Copy Share Image
We've grown up with American movies. Not to say that American movies - or movies that have been based in Watts, Compton,… — John Boyega Copy Share Image
I've always loved collecting arts and crafts - I have pieces by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and William Morris at home in east… — Jonathan Anderson Copy Share Image
It is white. - when asked what the White house was like by a student in East London — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
When I was visiting the U.K. as a teenager in 2006, I got lost in an East London market. — Andy Ngo Copy Share Image
It's a weird thing, beards now. I'll be in east London, and lads come up to me: 'Yo man, what beard oil… — Rag'n'Bone Man Copy Share Image
“You realise that people actually have to live in among all this and that east London is the bill, the tab that… — John Niven Copy Share Image
'Chewing Gum' is a sitcom set on an estate in east London. Its central character is a girl from a Pentecostal background… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
“Smoke curls among the ruins of East London. Many of the buildings have burned to the ground or split like exploded rocks.… — John Owen Theobald Copy Share Image
I was ecstatic when we won - to host the Olympics is one of the biggest opportunities in living memory. It will… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore. — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
I'm such an odd mix of things. My grandfather was Indian: I've got more family living in India than I do in… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
“British / Pakistani ISIS suspect, Zakaria Saqib Mahmood, is arrested in Bangladesh on suspicion of recruiting jihadists to fight in Syria •… — Zakaria Zaqib Mahmood Copy Share Image
“Lanterns Studio Theatre is the best East London Venue that provides the 9m Full-Length Mirrors, Wardrobe/Costume Room, Studio Sized, Wi-Fi at an… — Lanterns Studio Theatre Copy Share Image
Where I grew up in South East London you became a cab driver or worked in a flower market. — Rob Beckett Copy Share Image
I grew up in a feminist household in Hackney, East London, my mum was responsible in many ways for the feminist stain… — Zoe Buckman Copy Share Image
I wanted to cut past the polemics and experience London's Muslim communities for myself. My first visit was to Tower Hamlets, an… — Andy Ngo Copy Share Image
I'm going to Queen Mary's [university] in East London and I am trying to juggle it. Sometimes, it's really hard. — Yasmin Paige Copy Share Image
Obviously my own work comes from a conceptual art tradition, but I love the graffiti artists, and I feel spiritually closer to… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image