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Eric Robson as the Chair, with panellists Matthew Wilson, Anne Swithinbank and Bunny Guinness.
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BBC Radio 4's "Gardeners' Question Time" was recorded at Oxford House in Bethnal Green during the afternoon of Sunday 18th May 2104. Musical entertainment was provided by Jo Stephenson and Dan Woods, otherwise known as "Can You Dig It?" who serenaded the audience with gardening-related songs.
The event was part of the Chelsea Fringe Festival, which is being hosted at Oxford House and other venues. The recorded show is due to be broadcast on Friday 23rd May at 14.00 and repeated on Sunday 25th at 15.00.
The gardens of houses on the north side of Chisenhale Road, Bow, back directly onto the Hertford Union Canal.
Tredegar Road to the left, Douro Street to the right.
The cottage once stood at the entrance to a yard, for which it served as an office (I can't remember whether it was a scrapyard or builder's yard). After the yard closed a few years back the site was redeveloped for housing and the cottage was also converted into a private dwelling.
The Chisenhale Gallery, Studios and Dance Space are housed in a former factory backing on to the Hertford Union Canal in Bow, London E3. The street entrance is in Chisenhale Road, hence the name.
Location: Hackney Road, Bethnal Green, London, England
Victoria Park, Bow, East London as dusk descends on the last day of November 2014.
The northern hemisphere is about to enter the darkest month of the year, the one with the fewest hours of daylight, which culminate in the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year.
Long before Christianity hijacked the traditions, this was a time of year when pagans brought light, heat and evergreens into their dwellings as a reminder that the light would surely return. The Solstice was marked with feasting to invoke the return of the sun and mother nature; it was a time when people gathered together, told stories and gave each other gifts.
Toynbee Hall was the first of the University Settlements that were created in the East End from 1884 onwards. It is named after Arnold Toynbee, who first proposed that graduates from Oxford and Cambridge Universities should spend time in the East End helping those less fortunate than themselves. Clement Attlee, who went on to become Prime Minister after the Labour Party's spectacular post-war election victory in 1945, was honoured for his work here. Toynbee Hall still offers services to local people today. www.toynbeehall.org.uk
Location: Bow Road, London, England
Architect: Richard Tress
Built: 1849
Altab Ali Park stands on the site of St Mary Matfelon, the original "white chapel" which was demolished after being bombed in 1940. Altab Ali was a local Bangladeshi man who was murdered by white racists in 1979.
Tuesday 28th April 2015 - the London Air Ambulance takes off from the helipad at the Royal London Hospital.
Location: Bow Road, London, England
Architect: Richard Tress
Built: 1849
Architects: Hunters, 2012. New apartment tower, named Streamlight, near Poplar Dock and the river Thames. EcoHomes rating of excellent, 24 storeys and a green roof. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
The changing population of Whitechapel. In the late 19th and early 20th Century many Jews fled religious persecution in Eastern Europe and settled in the area. At one time there were 150 synagogues in the East End. However the Jews improved their fortunes, mostly through sheer hard graft, and from the 1930s they moved out to the newer suburbs, notably Golders Green and Ilford. In recent times the area has become home to a large Bangaldeshi population, who now have mosques, such as the East London Mosque in the background, to serve them. The Fieldgate Synagogue is no longer in regular use but has been retained and may be used for educational visits.
Former site of the British & Foreign Sailors Society, the building is another gift of the philanthropist Passmore Edwards. Britannia (?) holds a ship under each arm and the names of the four winds are inscribed either side of her crown.
Now housing association flats. See next photo.
Explored Jun 29, 2010 #434
Pavilion Café, Victoria Park
Selected as one of 10 finalists of the Victoria Park picture competition
The last-remaining unreconstructed bomb-site in London, this building just off Oval Road in Bethnal Green has been in this state since it was hit by an incendiary bomb in the Second World War.
Toynbee Hall was the first of the University Settlements that were created in the East End from 1884 onwards. It is named after Arnold Toynbee, who first proposed that graduates from Oxford and Cambridge Universities should spend time in the East End helping those less fortunate than themselves. Clement Attlee, who went on to become Prime Minister after the Labour Party's spectacular post-war election victory in 1945, was honoured for his work here. Toynbee Hall still offers services to local people today. www.toynbeehall.org.uk
These almshouses were erected in 1860 for the 'Poor people of the Liberty of Norton Folgate', and replaced earlier almshouses that were built in 1728 and demolished to make way for 'The New Street', or Commercial Street.
'The Liberty of Norton Folgate' was originally land which formed the inner precinct of The Priory and Hospital of St Mary Spital (hence the area's name, Spitalfields). A Liberty was an area vacated by a bishopric or abbacy that was not required to surrender its income to the Crown. Liberties later became a unit of local Government administration, until abolished by Acts of Parliament during the later 1800s. The Liberty of Norton Folgate became part of the District of Whitechapel in 1855, although it retained its own Trustees. In 1897 the Trustees petitioned to become part of the City of London, but this did not happen and in 1900 it was divided between the Metropolitan Boroughs of Stepney and Shoreditch.
Mile End Place is just off Mile End Road, just east of Stepney Green Station, and is accessed by a narrow alleyway which leads to two rows of small terraced cottages.
BBC Radio 4's "Gardeners' Question Time" was recorded at Oxford House in Bethnal Green during the afternoon of Sunday 18th May 2104. Musical entertainment was provided by Jo Stephenson and Dan Woods, otherwise known as "Can You Dig It?" who serenaded the audience with gardening-related songs.
The event was part of the Chelsea Fringe Festival, which is being hosted at Oxford House and other venues. The recorded show is due to be broadcast on Friday 23rd May at 14.00 and repeated on Sunday 25th at 15.00.
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.
1930s social housing between Wellington Row and Gosset Street. This was built by the Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green rather than the London County Council, hence its 'art-deco' stytling.
Mile End Road, London E1. A period townhouse (possibly Georgian), now restored to its former glory.
The area between Mile End Gate (Whitechapel) and Stepney Green was once known as Mile End Old Town, and in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was popular with well-to-do merchants and shipowners, who wanted to be close to the River Thames but away from crowded riverside communities such as Ratcliff, Wapping and Limehouse. A few elegant townhouses still survive in the area as reminders of its past glories.