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Hetty Bower, 106, Cable St veteran, at the 75th anniversary of the Battle Of Cable Street march and rally, Tower Hamlets October 2011.
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19 September 2010. Mr Recycle More, Tower Hamlets Council's giant 'robot'.
At the corner of Woodseer Street and Brick Lane during the Brick Lane Curry Festival.
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Damien St, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, 1986 86-5d-21
'Machinists Wanted - Good Pay' states a large sign outside a small factory on the corner of Damien St and Ford Square. This is now the Esha'atl Islam & London Islamic School.
Abellio, a subsidiary of NS (Nederlandse Spoorwegen - Dutch Railways), is currently putting new Enviro200 Darts into service on route 100; however the vehicle shown here is from an earlier batch. Here the towering warehouses in Wapping High Street, now converted into luxury flats, dwarf the bus.
Trinity Buoy Wharf is tucked into the end of a small peninsula at the point where the River Lea flows into the Thames, and for many years this was an isolated and forgotten part of London. Until 1988, this was where Trinity House built and maintained the buys and lightships that were used to aid navigation around the Kent, Essex and Suffolk coasts.
Trinity House was originally a voluntary organisation of shipmen and mariners, and was granted a Charter in 1514 by King Henry VIII, becoming "The Guild or Fraternity of the most glorious and undividable Trinity of St Clement". It gained its Coat of Arms in 1573, and with it the authority to erect beacons and other markers to aid navigation around the coasts of England; these evolved into the buoys, lightships and lighthouses for which Trinity House is still responsible around the United Kingdom.
Trinity Buoy Wharf was established in 1803 for the construction of wooden sea buoys, and over the years has adapted and expanded with the development of cast iron buoys in the 1860s. An experimental lighthouse was built in 1864 to test equipment and train lighthouse keepers; it still stands today.
Trinity Buoy Wharf was closed in December 1988 and acquired by the London Docklands Development Corporation, who decided to turn it into a centre for creative enterprises. In 1996 a long lease was granted to Urban Space Management, a company with a track record of regenerating former industrial locations.
Martyna Snopek, Bronze medalist at the World Rowing Championships
Canon EOS 7D - EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM - ISO320 1/640 sec f/5.6
The Peabody Trust was founded by George Peabody, an American Industrialist who made his fortune building railways, then came to London to invest in financial services.
He was also a philanthropist and social visionary, and appalled by the poor housing available to working people at the time, he set up the forerunner of the Peabody Trust in 1862 with a substantial sum of his own money and the first Peabody Estate was built in Spitalfields in 1864 (it still stands today at the corner of Folgate Street and Commercial Street). The Peabody Trust today is a Registered Social Landlord and a Charitable Trust.
The Bethnal Green Estate was built in 1910, with block H added in 1916. The triangular site, just off Hackney Road and bounded by Minerva Street, Centre Street and Cambridge Crescent, was formerly occupied by a factory and 42 terraced houses.
Constructed in 5662 (or 1902 if you insist on using the christian calendar).
In the late 1800s and early 1900s pogroms, or violent riots and massacres, were aimed at Jewish communities in Eastern Europe and Russia. Many Jews fled to London as refugees and settled in the Spitalfields and Whitechapel areas, where there was already a sizeable Jewish community. As many of the refugees were poor, initiatives such as this soup kitchen in Brune Street, Spitalfelds, were set up by wealthier Jews to provide charitable support to the new arrivals. Several of the UK's Jewish charitable organisations had their origins in such initiatives.
The need for the Soup Kitchen declined from the 1930s as the prosperity of the Jewish community increased and many Jews moved out to the new suburbs. However some were left behind in poverty and the Soup Kitchen was still giving out free food to elderly Jewish residents in the area until it closed in the early 1990s.
I had a great afternoon in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park today! Beautiful place, more a nature reserve than anything else, but full of family history.
Note that three of the Little Bears died very young, but the fourth - also called George Huxley - lived until he was 34. The complete story of a 19C family on one stone.
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Looking east to Cadogan Gate and beyond the Park. The gap in the buildings marks the boundary between two London Boroughs - the buildings on the left are in Hackney, the ones on the right in Tower Hamlets (the park itself is wholly within Tower Hamlets, the boundary runs along the north side of the park).
At one time the gap housed the entrance to Victoria Park Station. The original station opened in 1857 and was rebuilt in 1866. It was situated at the Junction where the Eastern Counties Railway branch to Stratford left the North London Railway's line from Broad Street to Poplar via Dalston. Passenger services ceased in 1940. In 1979 passenger services returned to the Dalston-Stratford route and a new station was provided at Hackney Wick, a few hundred yards from here. This route is now part of the London Overground network. With the closure of the London Docks in the 1950s and 1960s the Poplar line became little used and was closed in 1984. Much of the route - from Bow Road southwards - became part of the Docklands Light Railway in 1987.
Bromley-by-Bow, London - parking is so difficult in London!
London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Bromley by Bow, London, UK - Mix It
January 2018
The Sea Lark is a replica of an 18th-century American built schooner captured by the British during the Anglo American War 1812-14.
Imagine huge apartment towers rising behind the old wall to the right. Or wait a few years, and you'll not need to imagine.
Wilson Kipsang of Kenya, former world record holder, Olympic medalist, came 5th. He won the London Marathon in 2012 and 2014 and came 2nd last year.
Canon EOS 7D - EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM - ISO500 1/250 sec f/5.6
Wednesday 18th February 2015 - the sun returns to my back garden.
My garden in London is north-facing and behind a 5-storey block of flats, so it doesn't see the sun at all during the winter months as the sun does not rise high enough in the sky. However, by mid-February it has returned and appears along the back wall in the early afternoon - this is at 2.30pm.
The Peabody Trust was founded by George Peabody, an American Industrialist who made his fortune building railways, then came to London to invest in financial services.
He was also a philanthropist and social visionary, and appalled by the poor housing available to working people at the time, he set up the forerunner of the Peabody Trust in 1862 with a substantial sum of his own money and the first Peabody Estate was built in Spitalfields in 1864 (it still stands today at the corner of Folgate Street and Commercial Street). The Peabody Trust today is a Registered Social Landlord and a Charitable Trust.
The Bethnal Green Estate was built in 1910, with block H added in 1916. The triangular site, just off Hackney Road and bounded by Minerva Street, Centre Street and Cambridge Crescent, was formerly occupied by a factory and 42 terraced houses.
259 Wilmot Street, Bethnal Green, London E2.
Stewart Headlam lived at this location between 1873 and 1878 when he served as curate of nearby St Matthew's Church.
As a young man Stewart Headlam was strongly influenced by Christian Socialism, and always favoured the poor over the priveleged. He also served for many years on the London School Board representing Hackney, which as the time included much of Bethnal Green. His ideas included providing free schooling and free school meals from taxation, ideas which were seen is highly radical and even dangerous at the time.
Stewart Headlam was also associated with Oscar Wilde during his last days in London. Having been convinced that the outcome of Wilde's second trial for homosexuality had been pre-judged, he offered to stand bail for him and escorted him to and from the courthouse each day. When Wilde was released from Reading Gaol in 1897 Headlam collected him in a taxi at 6am to avoid press attention, and Wilde stayed in Headlam's home until he left for exile in Paris, where he died in 1900.
Stewart Headlam is also remembered in the name of a primary school in nearby Tapp Street, and in Headlam Street in Whitechapel.
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.
A new hotel on Whitechapel High Street - Ibis Budget is the new name for the Etap chain of budget hotels, part of the French-owned Accor Hotel Group. The hotel, which makes use of a redundant office block, is situated right on top of a disused Underground Station; St Mary's closed in 1938 after Aldgate East was resited further to the East and given a new Eastern entrance, next to the Whitechapel Library and Art Gallery.
Ibis Budget London Whitechapel opens its doors on Friday 29th June.
Marking the outbreak of the First World War, and commemorating the British and Colonial servicemen killed during its course.
The installation consisted of one ceramic poppy for each of the 888,246 serviceman. It was installed at the Tower of London with poppies added each day from 17 July, concluding 11 November.
The project was conceived by artist was Paul Cummins, with setting by Tom Piper, and was designed to appear as a sea of blood spilling out.
The title of the piece comes from a poem in the unsigned will of an unknown soldier who died in the war: "The blood swept lands and seas of red, / Where angels dare to tread"
Max Levitas, 101, Cable St veteran, giving a talk before the 80th anniversary of the Battle Of Cable Street march and rally, Tower Hamlets October 2016.