Information about Idea Store Whitechapel

How did we get there?
The Idea Store Whitechapel is near Whitechapel tube station and Sainsbury's on the high street. You can get directions from the the Idea Store website.

What can you do there?

• Books, CDs and DVDs - over 17,000 new items as well as stock from the existing libraries.
• An extensive range of newspapers and magazines
• A dedicated reference and information library
• A children's library
• A cafe
• Free Internet access
• A range of state-of-the-art learning spaces and classrooms
• A creche for the children of learners
• Specialist spaces for teaching dance and complementary therapies

Information about Tower of London

How did we get there?
We took the underground from Whitechapel to Tower Hill on the District Line. It took about 10 minutes (You can find more information on the Transport for London website)

What can you do there?
Visit the Tower of London. It costs £1 if you have an Idea Store card, but if you don't it costs £17 for adults and £10 for children.

Take a river boat trip from Tower Pier to Greenwich or Westminster. A return trip costs around £9 for adults and £5 for children.

Walk across Tower Bridge.

Summer Holiday Project 2009

Very exciting day today...the Stepney Partnership and Idea Stores have started a new summer holiday project for families across the Stepney Partnership of schools (Ben Jonson, Cayley, Halley, Redlands , Stepney Green Maths, Computing & Science College).

The project is for families with boys who are either about to begin their first or second year of secondary school in September.

Families are taking trips to local parks, galleries and museums - working with a professional artist and photographer to create this blog and a printed family map of their local area. We are excited to be working with a graphic design firm called CRUSH.

The project is joint funded by the Stepney Partnership, Find Your Talent and Idea Stores. Follow the blog to find out about the trips we take and the photos, drawings and collages the families create...