Current Exhibitions

Trading Standards
LBN has installed into the Miller’s House a stunning new collection acquired from the borough’s Trading Standards Dept., and consisting of scientific, weighing and measuring instruments dating back to the late 1800s.
The collection is a lovely splash of glass, brass and polished mahogany, all engraved with their respective boroughs, and makes a beautiful display. We hope to keep this Exhibition here until the Spring. Please do come to see it.

Past exhibitions have included:

London Borough of Newham Anti-Slavery Exhibition
Ran from July - October 2008
The Anti-Slavery Exhibition from the heritage team of LBN was on display in the ground floor of the Miller’s House. By positioning it within the Miller’s House café area we ensured maximum exposure to this very important Exhibition, as the café is open Monday – Friday, and at weekends when the House Mill is open for tours. The Exhibition was very comprehensive, and comprised many artefacts, including examples of shackles and other restraints, which made chilling viewing. There were also 19 information panels which related stories both of Newham’s abolitionists and national and international campaigns. It was an important and fascinating exhibition, and highly informative.

Facing East 10 October - 6 November 2008
The House Mill was delighted to offer complimentary exhibition space to Facing East, an Art Force project for the Bromley by Bow Centre (BBBC). The exhibition, which looked wonderful in the industrial setting of the House Mill. It offered a ‘portrait’ of the wide ranging community living in Bromley by Bow. Facing East recorded individuals’ stories, assembling a temporary museum of personal objects which were displayed on the ground and first floors of the House Mill, together with a series of high-quality, individual, photographic portraits and audio recordings for potential broadcast. The project was a celebration of the heritage of this diverse community and an opportunity for learning and sharing in the context of the past and present, and a history of migration and the far-reaching changes now taking place locally and across East London. The individual portraits were displayed and made accessible through the media, a dedicated website, brochure, the exhibition in the House Mill and potentially large-scale posters and projections. The BBBC hopes that Facing East will be a way that the diverse community and heritage is identified and celebrated; not just in Bromley by Bow, but across London and more widely. The Exhibition continued January 21st – February 1st 2009 at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery, 28 Charlotte Street, London W1 www.facingeast.co.uk