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Saturday 21st February 2015 - The Butcher Shop on Bethnal Green Road.
Hand made sausages (90% English pork), geese, turkey, venison, pheasant, rack of lamb, rib-eye steaks - why would you go to Tesco?
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.
Modern 1960s church built on the site of the original St Boniface. Whitechapel had a sizeable German community in the 1800s, many of whom were employed in the sugar refining industry.
Roman Road looking west at the pont where Bow becomes Bethnal Green and E3 becomes E2. The 1960s tower blocks of the Cranbrook Estate form the backdrop.
Hertford Union Canal, Bow.
The 'Canal and River Trust' is a new charitable foundation, established to take over from British Waterways, which was Government-owned. The move has been widely welcomed as the Trust can access a wider variety of funding.
Allen and Hanbury was founded as a pharmaceuticals manufacturer in London 1715. Their Bethnal Green factory opened in 1874 and was also responsible for surgical instruments, and for administration and scientific research. After damage during the First World War the factory was rebuilt in 1920 and continued in use until the late 1960s. It has recently been refurbished and brought back to life as 'The Pill Box', a centre for small businesses and new enterprises.
The Experimental Lighthouse and adjoining Chain and Buoy Store were designed by Sir James Douglass and erected in 1864. The lighthouse was used by Trinity House to test equipment and to train lighthouse keepers.
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.
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 London Hospital (it only gained the "Royal" prefix in 1990) was originally founded as the London Infirmary in Moorfields in 1740, moving to its present location in 1757. Behind the original buildings a new state-of-the-art facility is being constructed; included on the roof is a new helipad for the Air Ambulance service which is based here.
Approach Road, Bethnal Green, London E2.
Henry Raine was a wealthy businessman who lived in Wapping, and he founded a school for local poor children so they could be educated for free and move into skilled employment. The original building still stands today. The school has moved several times since and in 1985 the Upper School moved into the buildings of the former Parmiter's School in Approach Road - the Lower School is located nearby in Old Bethnal Green Road.
As well as an education the school provided meals and uniforms, these sculptures on the front of the new wing which was recently opened are a reminder of the uniforms that were worn by those original pupils in Wapping.
Old Ford Road, Bow, London E3. This would have been the former entrance building to the sawmill, and has now been converted for residential use. The sawmill would have had direct access to the Hertford Union Canal to the rear.
Approach Road, Bethnal Green, London E2.
Henry Raine was a wealthy businessman who lived in Wapping, and in 1719 he founded a school for local poor children so they could be educated for free and move into skilled employment. The original building still stands today. The school has moved several times since and in 1985 the Upper School moved into the buildings of the former Parmiter's School in Approach Road - the Lower School is located nearby in Old Bethnal Green Road.
This decommissioned lightship moored at Trinity Buoy Wharf is a homage to the location's previous role; as the place where Trinity House manufactured and maintained the buoys and lightships that were used around the coasts of Kent, Essex and Suffolk.
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.
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 London Air Ambulance, or to give it its proper title, Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS), is based at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel; it now flies from a helipad on top of the new wing of the Hospital, having moved from one atop the Princess Alexandra Building in December 2011. The helicopter can reach any point within the M25 motorway within 12 minutes, and is called out to attend the most severely injured; it carries Doctors who are able to carry out life-saving operations at the scene, thereby improving the victims' chances of surviving until they can be got to a hospital. It flies an average of five missions a day.
The Royal London was the first hospital to have an Integrated Trauma Care Centre, which brings together in a coordinated way all the medics and facilities to treat the most seriously injured patients. The ITCC halved the death rate from traumatic injury at the Royal London, and has since become the model for such centres world-wide; there are now four in the London area. The Royal London receives patients who have been flown in by helicopter; an express lift enables patients to be transferred from the helipad to the ITCC in less than one minute.
HEMS also has rapid response cars, which are used in situations where it is not safe or practical to deploy the helicopter.
Captain Cook lived in a house on this site from 1764 until his death in 1779. During this time he charted the St Lawrence River in Eastern Canada and the coastline of New Zealand, landed in Australia (Botany Bay) and discovered the NorthWest Passage over the Arctic north coast of America. The plaque was unveiled on the 29th April 1970 by the Greater London Council, in the presence of the Australian Ambassador, to mark the 200th anniversary of the Botany Bay landing.
St Paul's Way, junction with Bow Common Lane, Bow Common. The church was built in 1894 and is today used by a Vietnamese congregation.
Off Ellswood Street, Bethnal Green, London E2. The community garden is run by and for residents of the surrounding Hollybush Estate.
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 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.
The poppies at the Tower of London are an evolving art installation "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red", to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War.
The first poppies were installed in the moat at the Tower on 5th August 2014 - 100 years to the day since Britain declared war on Germany - and the last will be installed on 11th November, the anniversary of the Armistice in 1918 which brought an end to the fighting. A total of 888,246 ceramic poppies will be laid, each on signifying a British military fatality during the War.
After 11th November the poppies will be removed and sold off to raise money for six charities which support serving and former services personnel, and their families.
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.
Fairfield Road, Bow, London E3. Now luxury apartments.
One of the most significant labour disputes in working class history ocurred here in 1888 when the women who worked here went on strike over their working conditions. They approached the prominent women's rights activist Annie Besant for support and advice (contrary to popular belief Besant neither instigated nor led the strike). The women won popular support and eventually their demands were met.