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Imagine huge apartment towers rising behind the old wall to the right. Or wait a few years, and you'll not need to imagine.
An absolute gem of a place. Whitechapel Bell Foundry has been in continuous production since 1570, making it London's oldest manufacturing firm. It manufactures church bells and handbells. Bells that have been cast here include Big Ben, the bells of Westminster Abbey, the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, and numerous bells in churches in the UK and USA. It is possible to take foundry tours on Saturdays (pre-booking only as numbers are limited), and you can visit the shop and exhibition Monday to Friday, 10am to 5pm.
For more information about the foundry, about church bells, and the art of handbell ringing, I can recommend the Foundry's own website: www.whitechapelbellfoundry.co.uk
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.
The 1930s architecture of the stables and married quarters contrasts sharply with the Victorian styling of the 1903 Police Station.
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.
Wellington Buildings were built by the District Railway in 1900 to house people displaced by the District Line's extension eastward from Whitechapel. This opened in 1902 and connected with the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway at Campbell Road Junction.
The 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games has seen hundreds of buses drafted in from all over the UK to work Games-related services.
This is Eviro400 no. 4838 in the National Express West Midlands, and is painted in the sky blue variant of the standard National Express bus livery which is applied to buses based in Coventry - where the local football team is nicknamed 'The Sky Blues'. It is seen operating a staff bus for drivers who are lodging at the student accommodation on Bethnal Green Road. Buses are parked at a number of temporary facilities in East London.
Bow Road Police Station opened in 1903. New stables and married quarters were built to the rear in the 1930s.
An absolute gem of a place. Whitechapel Bell Foundry has been in continuous production since 1570, making it London's oldest manufacturing firm. It manufactures church bells and handbells. Bells that have been cast here include Big Ben, the bells of Westminster Abbey, the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, and numerous bells in churches in the UK and USA. It is possible to take foundry tours on Saturdays (pre-booking only as numbers are limited), and you can visit the shop and exhibition Monday to Friday, 10am to 5pm.
For more information about the foundry, about church bells, and the art of handbell ringing, I can recommend the Foundry's own website: www.whitechapelbellfoundry.co.uk