A small, sharp museum dedicated to the working women of east London — the matchgirls, the suffragettes, the wartime munitions workers, and the activists who shaped the East End from the 19th century onwards. It started as a pop-up campaign in 2015, opened as a permanent space in 2022, and now occupies a ground-floor unit on Cambridge Road close to the abbey.
Exhibitions rotate. The permanent material tells the story of the 1888 Bryant and May matchgirls' strike, the Ford Dagenham machinists who walked out in 1968 over equal pay, and the local women who ran the Barking Rest Centre during the Blitz. Small, free, and worth half an hour for anyone interested in social history.