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Jacob von Hogflume is the fictitious inventor of time travel, as well as a future former resident of London.
The plaque is one of a whole series of fake signs, cleverly made to resemble official ones, created by Dave Askwith and Alex Normanton. The pair documented their work in a book; 'Signs of Life: Useful Signs For The General Public'.
Apparently Jacob von Hogflume also lived in Golden Square, Soho, in 2189. Obviously Bethnal Green had gone too upmarket by then and he couldn't afford the rent.
Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts was born in 1814 and, through being a member of the Coutts banking family, became extremely wealthy. She endowed much of her inherited wealth on scholarships, endowments and good causes. She died childless in 1906.
One of these endowments was this elaborate drinking fountain in Victoria Park, East London, which was erected in 1852. In Victorian times it was surprisingly difficult for ordinary people to find fresh water to drink whilst out and about, and initially private benefactors were encouraged to provide drinking fountains to meet this need, but as the nineteenth century progressed water supplies were taken over by local authorities.
The Minerva Estate on Bethnal Green Road was built in 1946 and was the first London County Council housing estate to be completed after the Second World War, when housebuilding was able to resume. The Estate was refurbished and the flats modernised in 2003.
The Estate is named after Minerva Street which once ran through the area in which the Estate now stands; the northern section of Minerva Street still links the Estate with Hackney Road. Minerva was the Roman name for Athene, the Greek goddess of wisdom, and the blocks of flats continue the theme by being named after characters in classical mythology.
Field Armor (1540)
The “Giant” Armor
•Place: Germany, Brunswick
•Location: Tower of London, White Tower Entrance Floor
•Object Number: II.22
•Object Title: Field Armor
•Date: 1540
•Object Number: II.22
•Provenance: Tower Arsenal since at least 1625
•Physical Description: The close helmet is of burgonet type, the skull with a low, roped comb, a pivoted peak with an extension underneath pierced with two sights. The lower part of the visor consists of a single falling plate with cross-shaped breaths. The double gorget plates are modern restorations. The gorget comprises a main plate front and rear with three lames above. The breastplate is globose with a medial ridge, shaped to a central point. The neck and gusset edges have strongly roped inward turns. It is pierced for a lance rest. The fauld is of three lames, and single plate tassets are attached by straps and buckles. The backplate has a culet of four lames. The arm defenses comprise full pauldrons, both fitted with upright haut pieces, the right pauldron’s mainplate has a cut-out at the front for the lance. The small articulating lames below the main plates are restorations. The upper cannons have turners and are attached to large bracelet couters and lower cannons. The gauntlets are of mitten type. The cuisses are articulated twice at the top. The greaves reach the bottom of the foot and are pierced at the rear for spurs. The lower part of the right is restored, as are both the broad toed sabatons. All elements are embossed with a border of overlapping roundels etched alternatively with rosettes and flamboyant rays and are also etched with bands of scrollwork and foliage. The band in the center of the backplate incorporates a heart-shaped cartouche bearing the monogram AB for the etcher. The tassets are embossed with central crosses lozengy.
•Materials: Metal—Ferrous, Leather
•Dimensions:
oHeight: Height as Mounted 2070 mm
oWeight: 32.545 kg (71 lb. 11 oz)
•Component Parts:
oPair of sabatons
o10 lames
•Inscriptions and Marks: Etched AB for the etcher.
•Associations:
oPlaces: Germany, Brunswick
•Bibliographic References:
oF. Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armor and Weapons,London, 1786: pl.8, fig. 3, pl. 22
oMann, J G Der “Harnasch ders Reisen” im Londoner Tower, und der Atzer AB, ZHWK 4(13) heft 1, 1932: 27-31
oHall, N The giant and the dwarf in A Borg (ed) Strange stories from the Tower, London, 1976: 47-9
oA.R. Dufty and W. Reid, European Armor in the Tower of London, 1968, plate XXIV.
oT. Richardson, “A Rowlandson source”, Burlington Magazine, 1040, 1989, 773-5
•Notes:
oThis once fine armor has been in the Armories since at least the 17th century. In Fordaine and Schonbul Travels of 1625-8 it is described as the armor of John of Gaunt, an attribution it retained until the reorganization of the Tower displays by Meyrick in 1825 and illustrated as such by Grose. In the 1660 Inventory it is described as “a large white armour cap-a-pe, said to be John of Gaunt’s”. The carved wooden head of John of gaunt which was displayed with the armor is illustrated in Borg 1976: p. 326, pl. LXXVIIb. There is a tradition that the armor was issued and worn in the Lord Mayor’s Show in the 18th and early 19th centuries. This could account for its severely over-cleaned condition, and some of the more modern repair work and restoration. Mann (1932: 27-31 first suggested the Brunswick attribution for the armor. Dr A von Rohr of the Landesmuseum, Hanover, suggested the initials AB might belong to Bonaventura Abt, a painter working in Brunswick 1525-52. He worked for the town and for Prince Heinrich the Younger, who had his residence at Wolfenbüttel (once known for a tournament), and in 1535 is recorded as “painting” an armor. There are two other giant armors from Scloss Blankenburg, no 4 dated 1549 (R Bohlmann, Die Braunsweigischen Waffen aus Schloss Blankenburg am Harz, ZHWK 6 heft 10, 1912-14: 335-64) and another almost identical but fragmentary harness (Mann 1932 abb. 3-4). Mann identified a series of armors with overlapping embossed circles etched with the rosette and flame design, including a late “Maximilian” armor from the Tower, II.11, another formerly in the berlin Zeughaus (abb. 7-8) and the couters of another in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, formerly in the Riggs and Spitzer collections.
Boy’s Armor (1610)
Known as the Jeffrey Hudson Armor
•Place: England
•Location: Tower of London, White Tower Entrance Floor
•Object Number: II.126
•Object Title: Boy’s Armor
•Date: 1610
•Provenance: Tower arsenal? Has been in the armories since at least the 18th century. See notes for further details.
•Physical Description: Helmet of burgonet form; the skull is embossed with a scale pattern and has a crest in the form of a dragon rivetted to it. There is a peak embossed as the upper part of a monster’s head attached by rivets and partly covering the front of the skull, cheekpieces also riveted on and a chinpiece rivetted inside the latter while a neck guard is rivetted over the base of the skull. The helmet has been subjected to considerable alteration and its original form is difficult to determine. Breastplate of typical early seventeenth form; wide tassets of seven lames, a culet of five lames is attached to the backplate. Full arm-pieces, the main plates of the pauldrons being embossed as dragons’ masks. The gauntlets have a moveable plate on the underside of the cuff in the Greenwich manner. Complete leg-pieces, the cuishes with two articulations in the upper part; the sabatons of eleven lames.
•Dimensions:
oHeight:
Height to Crown of Helmet: 35.7 in
Overall Height: 37.5 in [Dimensions to be checked]
oWeight: 11lb 10 oz
•Component Parts: 3 plates
•Inscriptions and Marks: None.
•Associations:
oPlaces: England
oEvents:
“The knight is young”: Royal Armories, Leeds, 28 September 2002-12 January 2003
Royal Armories, Fort Nelson, 22 February-30 March 2003
Royal Armories, Tower of London, 12th July 2003 - 7th March 2004 (Royal Armories 2003).
•Bibliographic References:
oA.R. Dufty and W. Reid, European Armor in the Tower of London, 1968, plate LXVIII.
oN. Hall, “The giant and the dwarf”, A. Borg, Strange stories from the Tower of London, London, 1976: 47-49
oB Clifford and K Watts, Princely armors and weapons of childhood, Royal Armories, Leeds 2003: 21
•Notes:
oAlthough this armor has been in the Armories at least since the 18th century and possibly earlier, references to it in the inventories and guidebooks and vague and uninformative. It may be the small armor which in the 18th century was labelled Richard, Duke of York and by 1830 Charles, Prince of Wales, but the descriptions are too vague for this to be certain. The armor is quite well proportioned and is correctly constructed and would be wearable by someone small enough. Hewitt in his catalogue of 1853 suggests that it was made for a dwarf and in this connection Jeffrey Hudson, the dwarf of Queen Henrietta Maria may be suggested as a possible owner. Hudson who entered the Queen’s service about 1630, is described as being about eighteen inches tall at this date though he later grew to a height of over three feet.
oNotes in the inventory record that the helmet is identical to that worn by Charles I in Le Sueur’s bust at Stourhead, Wiltshire (National Trust Property). This has also lost its wings (color scan of bust is on inventory file)
oThe armor might have been that of Charles I as a child. J.J Keevil, “The illness of Charles, Duke of Albany (Charles I), from 1600 to 1612: An Historical Case of Rickets”, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 1954, Vol. IX No. 4, pp.407-19, suggests that, at an early age, he suffered from rickets, which would have stunted his growth, and resulted in feeble limbs and a swollen head.
The first voluntary emigrants to Australia left from Dunbar Wharf in Poplar.
Compare this view with an earlier photo of the wharf from English Heritage.
The East India Docks were built by the East India Company, which was one of the most powerful global traders of all time. Founded in 1600, by the 1750s it had come to rule India via its own private armies, a situation that only changed in 1858 when the Crown assumed direct control following the Indian Rebellion of the previous year.
The Docks were built at Blackwall (where the Company already had a wharf) in 1804 to avoid the increasingly congested River Thames around the Pool of London and the warehouses of Wapping and Rotherhithe. New roads - East India Dock Road and Commercial Road - were constructed to bring goods into the Company's warehouses in the City of London, and were joined in 1840 by the London and Blackwall Railway, with a terminus at Fenchurch Street and Goods Depots in the Aldgate area. The changing nature of trade caused the Docks to decline in the 20th Century, and they closed in 1967.
Today much of the former East India Docks in Blackwall has been drained and built over, however a large part of the surrounding walls remains in situ, appearing to 'contain' the Leamouth office development which has been built on the site of the Export Dock. The East India Dock Basin has also survived; silting with mud has created a rare saltmarsh habitat close to the centre of London and this is now managed as an important bird and nature reserve.
From the East London Advertiser:
A passenger is undergoing emergency surgery in hospital this afternoon after losing both legs and an arm when he was hit by a London Underground train.
Police and emergency fire crews were called to Aldgate East station in East London where the 49-year-old was found trapped on the track under a train yesterday morning (Tuesday). The train had run over both legs and his arm.
The man was taken by ambulance to the Royal London Hospital nearby, where he is under intensive care.
Roman numerals marking water depth at entrance to former Western Dock of the London Docks in Wapping.
One of the benefits of a rebuilt school is a proper arts facility. In the background, beside the A12, is the former Queen Victoria pub (unbelievably now divided into 11 separate flats).
EPR Architects, 2017. Primarily a residential development, here showing the orange 14-storey block facing Millwall Inner Dock. Millennium Quarter, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Lead Elite Men's group, Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya (L) won with a personal best and course record 2:03:05. He also won in 2015.
Canon EOS 7D - EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM - ISO320 1/400 sec f/5.6
Open House London 2017. Built as a pub extension in the 19th century. Originally a music hall then a Methodist Hall and faced demolition in the 60's. Now a thriving performance venue and film and photo shoot set. Restoration has revealed layers of earlier paint schemes.
Route D8 has been temporarily converted to double deck to provide additional capacity during the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. PVL56, a Plaxton President-bodied Volvo B9TL temporarily drafted into to Go-Ahead Docklands Buses at Silvertown Depot, is seen in Campbell Road, Bow during the afternoon of Tuesday 7th August.
The Greenwich Meridian at Blackwall, looking south towards the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, the location from which time worldwide is measured.
Having hit landfall in East Yorkshire and made its way through Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex and the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Newham and Tower Hamlets; beyond Greenwich it will cut through Blackheath, Hither Green Station, Catford, West Wickham, New Addington, Oxted, East Grinstead (where it features on the town's coat of arms), Sheffield Park Station on the Bluebell Railway, Chailey, Lewes and Peacehaven, where the Meridian Monument looks out from a high clifftop over the English Channel. Then it's western France, eastern Spain, Algeria, Mali, Togo (briefly), Burkina Faso and Ghana, and 5,000 miles of Atlantic Ocean until the South Pole.
wwp.greenwichmeridian.com
This splendidly restored French Citroen H van from the 1940s has been converted into a mobile coffee stall by Jared Horn. The van used to appear regularly in Brick Lane on Sundays (where it was photographed on 31st May 2009). "Cwtch" is Welsh for cuddle.
This channel led to the western section of Poplar Dock which I think has now been filled in for Trafalgar Way and Boardwalk Place running parallel with that.
The Lower Lea Crossing opened in 1991 and is part of a network of roads built to assist the regeneration of London's Docklands. It links Canary Wharf, Poplar and Blackwall in the west with Canning Town, Silvertown, Royal Victoria Dock and the ExCel Arena in the east.
The sliproads lead to Orchard Place, until recently an isolated and forgotten corner of London despite being only five miles from the City of London. Quite a way from any public transport links It is largely industrial, but a small residential community eked out an existence here until the 1930s when they were rehoused elsewhere by the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar.
At the end of Orchard Place is Trinity Buoy Wharf, established in 1803 by Trinity House to manufacture and maintain navigation buoys and lightships around the Kent, Essex and Suffolk coasts. It was closed in December 1988, acquired by the London Docklands Development Corporation in 1991, and in 1996 was re-established as a centre for creative enterprise.
A residential population has also returned to Orchard Place in recent years, with one of the old warehouses belonging to the East India Dock Company having been turned into apartments. Future plans for the north part of Orchard Place, which has recently been cleared, include a mixed-use residential scheme for 3,000 people.
Waterside Theatre, Bow School, London. Completed around four years ago, and designed by van Heyningen and Haward Architects.
London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Bromley by Bow, London, UK - Bow School, Waterside Theatre
January 2018