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This hydraulic accumulator tower and pumping station was built in the late 1800s for the Poplar Dock Company, to power the new generation of hydraulic cranes and other equipment then being introduced. Poplar Dock was always railway-owned and served, and was unique in that it did not pass to the Port of London Authority in 1909 but remained in railway ownership (latterly with British Rail) until closure in 1981. It reopened in 1999 as Poplar Dock Marina. The tower and pumping station has in the meantime found a new use, as a branch of the Majestic Wine Warehouse chain.
Another hydraulic pumping station, built in 1858 for the East India Dock Company in nearby Naval Row, ,has survived and is today used as offices.
Corner of Winkley Street and Canrobert Street, Bethnal Green London E2. Run in cinjunction with Casa Mexico next door and open at weekends.
Much of the former East India Docks in Blackwall has been drained and built over (as in the background). However the East India Dock Basin has 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.
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.
Former church and associated buildings, now converted into private residences. St Leonard's Road, Poplar.
The Parish of St Michael and All Angels, South Bromley, was one of six to be created from the ancient parish of Bromley St Leonard's in 1864, to serve a burgeoning East End population. Designed by FW Morris and consecrated in 1865, the building served as the parish church for a tightly-knit community centred on the shops and pubs of St Leonard's Road. However Poplar suffered heavily from Second World War bombing, and city planners levelled much of the rest in the post-war era. The much-depleted congregation clung on until until 1975, when they joined with nearby All Saints, Poplar.
Thursday 7th May 2015 - my local polling station on General Election Day, the day when the UK gets to choose the Members of Parliament who will represent them for the next few years.
With no overall majority predicted for the second time in a row, it could be several days before a new Government is formed as the parties with the largest share of the vote negotiate with other parties. I am a lifelong Labour voter, but had I been elsewhere in the UK I might have considered voting Liberal Democrat or Green (my ideal outcome would be a Labour-LibDem-Green coalition). Here in Bethnal Green and Bow though I have always known that I would vote for the Labour Party candidate and current encumbent, Rushanara Ali, not only because she is a good constituency MP but she is also the best bet for keeing the Conservatives and Ukip at bay.
Our fun in London comes next year, when we vote for the Greater London Assembly Members and for a new Mayor. The Assembly elections have an element of proportional representation and we get two votes so I shall have fun with mine!
UPDATE: I'm gutted. Still London 2016 will be interesting, and there's always 2020 .......
Much of the former East India Docks in Blackwall has been drained and built over (as in the background). However the East India Dock Basin has 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.
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.
National Express service 490 runs between London, Thetford and Norwich five times a day; one journey is extended to Great Yarmouth as seen here. Coaches pick up/set down at Aldgate and Stratford before hitting the Motorway.
The Peabody Housing Trust has recently completed a new development at Three Colts Lane, Bethnal Green. The development folows the curve of the railway viaduct which was built in 1872 to carry the Great Eastern Railway's then-new suburban lines to Enfield Town and Chingford.
As part of the new development a new pedestrianised public thoroughfare has been created to link Three Colts Lane and Witan Street, which acts as a new short-cut to and from Cambridge Heath Road and Bethnal Green Underground Station.
Tower Hamlets Reserves 4-4 Haver Town Reserves
(Haver Town won 9-8 on penalties)
Division 3 Cup, Semi Final
Essex Alliance Football League
Saturday 6th April 2019
At Mabley Green, Hackney
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.
Mr Yu, an imposing stencil on its own and even more impact in a group www.flickr.com/photos/niecieden/364513160/
Glenn Howells Architects, 2017. One of ten residential blocks being built on the Leamouth Peninsula, now also known as London City Island. Ferro-concrete frame on ferro-concrete piles. Glazed brick cladding. Core A is 18 storeys and Core B is 4. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Shipping containers were devised as an innovative way of creating flexible, affordable workspaces, and the two prototype 'Container Cities' were erected at Trinity Buoy Wharf in 2000 and 2002.
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.
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.
New Zealand's Tim Prendergast, 2004 Greece Paralympics Gold Medalist. He has 5 percent vision.
Canon EOS 7D - EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM - ISO800 1/500 sec f/5.6
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.
The art-deco shelter in Bethnal Green Gardens is thought to have been designed by London Transport architect Stanley Heaps, under the tutelage of Charles Holden whose station designs of the 1930s are legendary. What could have been a functional structure to house an air vent for Bethnal Green Station was instead turned into an attractive amenity for users of the Gardens.
The structure has been neglected in recent years, but during Summer 2013 a group of local residents set up 'The Kiosk', a weekend pop-up café. They are hoping to negotiate a longer lease with Tower Hamlets Council to establish something more permanent and to restore the shelter to its former glory.
The Kiosk reopened as a one-off for London Open House Weekend (21/22 September); on display were copies of the original plans for the shelter, as well as some historical photos of Bethnal Green Gardens.
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"
Ten Trinity Square is a Grade II Listed structure, existing partly in the City of London and partly in the Borough of Tower Hamlets. Officially opened on October 27th 1922 by then Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, the top of the building is surrounded by statuary (detail) symbolizing Commerce, Navigation, Exportation and Produce, as well as Father Thames.
Pictured in the foreground is the WWII portion of Tower Hill Memorial.
Principal Tower, a 50 storey residential matchstick piercing the Shoreditch skyline, comprising 243 private luxury apartments and penthouses.
Glenn Howells Architects for EcoWorld Ballymore. Work-in-progress on two residential towers of 55 and 50 storeys above podium. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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Dedicated to Dr. Stanley Bean Atkinson, this clock tower originally stood in Burdett Road and was moved here in 1934.
Several of these bollards from 1838 survive in Kitcat Terrace, Bow. The wording on this one reads 'Limehouse P Commision 1838', whilst at the top reads 'Dodgson' - the manufacturer?
These were probably Parish Boundary markers at one time. They are thought to have been moved here during the 1850s as the North London Railway's Bow Road Station once stood here.
www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-505014-seven-bollards...