Culture, Arts and Leisure

Stratford brings together the historic and the modern. A venerable Victorian theatre sits side by side with a contemporary, multi-arts entertainment venue. Museums, heritage centres and conservation sites sit next to brand new leisure and sporting facilities, providing  both visitors and local residents with a tremendous variety of activities and interests.

Stratford Picturehouse
Stratford Four-screen cinema with a café-bar, membership programme and luxurious interiors. Glass walls to the street illuminate the surrounding area at night, adding to the quarter's modern, cosmopolitan feel.

Theatre Royal, Stratford East
East London's most famous theatre has a year-long programme of shows and plays ranging from contemporary to classical and pantomime. Theatre Royal tour Take a virtual tour of the historic theatre.

Stratford Circus
Stratford Circus An innovative theatre company that produces performing-arts events in partnership with a range of community, professional and non-professional arts organisations.

Abbey Mills Pumping Station
The 'cathedral of sewage', part of London's original Victorian network that still transports water for cleansing throughout the capital, is located close to another Newham landmark, the Stratford Meridian Line.

Three Mills
London's oldest tidal mill, the House Mill, and its surrounding waterways occupy one of Newham's most scenic locations, and is an ideal place to start if you're going to Walk the Olympic Park.

Discover
Discover Story Centre is the UK's first hands-on creative centre for children and families and the only story centre in London which focuses on creativity through projects, exhibits and activities exploring words, language and imagination.  Its an unique and magical indoor and outdoor play space where children aged 0 to 9 and their carers can create stories together through play.  The "Story Den" hosts a changing programme of events and exhibitions, from story telling by famous children's authros to arts and crafts activities.