East London – SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR)

London: GCSE Results Day 2025 – Forest Gate Community School’s ‘Best Results’! (23.8.2025)

23/08/2025 Adrian (釋大道)

amida Islam also excelled, achieving nine grade 9s and one 8.

She credited her success to the school’s dynamic progress reporting system.

Famida hopes to pursue a career in medicine or science, and is considering Brampton Manor or Newham College for her next steps.

Ibrahim Mastan earned seven 9s, two 8s, and a 6, despite living with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a genetic condition that kept him studying at home for much of years seven to nine.

He said: “If I didn’t push myself then I wouldn’t be in the place where I am right now.”

Dylan Keser, who entered foster care during his studies, achieved two 7s and two 6s.

He said: “I gave as much as I could to get these results.”

Dylan often arrived at school by 7.15am and stayed until 5.30pm, supported by his foster mother.

Lewisham: Locating the Now Lost “Horton Street”! (25.11.2023)

25/11/2023 Adrian (釋大道)

During September, 1940, Nazi Germany unleashed its ‘Blitz’ attack on London! The Luftwaffe dropped thousands of tonnes of bombs on East London – as Hitler sought to destroy the physical bodies of the British working-class (thus preventing them from joining the British Arm Forces) – and to destroy the morale of those who were left! Not only this, by bombing various targets in the UK – using conventional Bomber-Aeroplanes and unconventional Flying Bombs (the fabled ‘V’ or ‘Vengeance’ weapons) Hitler attempted to rip the infrastructure of the UK from beneath the feet of its inhabitants! In the 18 months of intense blanket-bombing – a tactic Hitler had perfected in Spain during the Civil War (1936-1939) in that country – around 70,000 British people were killed!

The Clan Gibson of Sutton! (9.11.2023)

09/11/2023 Adrian (釋大道)

Our branch of the Gibson family is recorded as having been ‘rope-makers’ and are believed to have originally migrated out of Scotland hundreds of years ago – and to have ‘walked’ down through England until they eventually settled in East London. This is a journey that took decades and involved small clusters settling here and there. Featured is out Scottish Tartan – but as ‘Gibson’ is of Viking heritage – the Vikings settled in both England and Scotland at different times and during the centuries prior to the Norman Conquest of 1066 CE. As the Normans were Vikings who had settled in France – this adds yet another level of transmission. The ‘Son of Gibb’ was thought to have been a mighty Viking warrior!

Imperial War Museum: How a WWII British Anderson Shelter Saved the Lives of My Family! (26.10.2023)

02/11/2023 Adrian (釋大道)

There were different types of government-provided air-raid shelters issued during WWII. However, the version depicted here – is very close to that issued to my mother’s family (surnamed ‘Gibson’) who lived in Lewisham, South London. During September, 1940, the Nazi Germany ‘Luftwaffe’ blanket-bombed East London and killed and wound thousands of British people. During the entire 18-months of the ‘Blitz’ – the Luftwaffe inflicted 40,000 casualties in London and 70,000 all across the UK! My family lived in a three-storied house in Fordyce Road – with a generation living on each floor.

Kent: Chislehurst Caves! (7.10.2023)

08/10/2023 Adrian (釋大道)

As something of a hobby that its becoming ever more prominent and important as I get older – I have penned an article about the local Home Guard Unit (the 54th Kent Battalion) which operated in the area – that will be published shortly on a dedicated historical website. This Home Guard Unit had the unexpected duty of ‘Policing’ the exterior of the caves and ensuring that law and order was maintained by the thousands of evacuees who turned-up. There was also the issue of ensuring that there was no trouble between the locals and the newly arrived – as Britain is rife with regional conflicts! A positive gained from this influx meant that there was plenty of men and women available to join and assist the Home Guard – making this area one of the best manned of the Civil Defence Authorities! Remember – the Home Guard was premised upon Socialist principles!

The Day They Took Away Our Pagoda

31/01/2017 Adrian (釋大道)

This barbarous act has had a tremendously negative effect upon the psychology of the Chinese community in London (and beyond), and is tantamount in experience to a racial attack, or a hate-crime, but as usual, the mainstream UK remains indifferent to a prominent section of its population.

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