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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.
The new cycle and pedestrian shared path linking Viaduct Street and Derbyshire Street, Bethnal Green, is now open. The paved area alongside Oxford House could have outdoor seating if plans for a new café come to fruition.
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.
Mile End, London E1.
One of London's most hidden secrets. Even many people who walk regularly past an innocuous green door set into a wall in Cleveland Way do not realise that behind lies a footpath, giving access to a whole terrace of Victorian cottages. Yet all you need to do is push gently on the gate to be admitted to another world of peace and tranquility, just a few steps from the busy and bustling Mile End Road.
Part of the 1900 estate seemed not to have been completed until after World War 1. Or was the 1920 Poplar BC plaque added later? nice terraced cottages, rather reminiscent of an industrial garden suburb.
Until 16th August a number of canal boats are selling their wares alongside the Regent's Canal in Bow. The boats are moored between Roman Road and the railway bridge.
Location: Bow Road, London, England
Architect: Richard Tress
Built: 1849
On Saturday 18th September 2010 a steam locomotive was used to haul an excursion from London Liverpool Street to Norwich, Lowestoft and Beccles. The train was named "The Easterling", recalling a 1950s Summer Saturday holiday train which ran to Beccles then split into various portions for onward travel to various East Anglian Holiday destinations - in an era when most British people's holidays would have been within the UK and would have involved train travel. The train is seen here approaching Bethnal Green, having had to work hard up the bank out of Liverpool Street.
Robin Hood Gardens, Poplar, London E14
Alison and Peter Smithson, completed 1972
"Alison Smithson (1928-1993) and Peter Smithson (1923-2003) have a firmly established place in the history of British and world architecture, on account of their buildings, their unbuilt projects, their theoretical writings and their teaching…
The Smithsons’ work was concerned with a search for the essence of Modernism in architecture. This involved a wide investigation of history and a critical examination of the work of earlier masters such as Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. It involved a concern with matters outside the immediate scope of architecture, including painting, sculpture and graphics, collecting, non-western cultures, historical geography and projections of the future. This was conducted in a manner new to British architectural discourse, involving manifesto-like statements with matching illustrations, containing memorable slogans. These constituted a regular flow of material challenging settled beliefs about the nature of modern architecture. The Smithsons were notable for their engagement with past and present designers apparently opposed to Modernism, such as the classicists Sir Edwin Lutyens, Sir Albert Richardson and Raymond Erith, and François Spoerry, the designer of the Provençal holiday village Port Grimaud in Var, France."
Alan Powers, Chairman, Twentieth Century Society
Parts of this church date back to 1311, and the base of the tower to the 1400s although the top part of the tower was repaired after the Second World War following bomb damage. This church is often mistaken as the home of the "Bow Bells", within earshot of which true cockneys are supposed to be born, and of the "Great Bell of Bow" in the nursery rhyme, 'Oranges and Lemons' - in both cases, the church referred to is St Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside, City of London.
Sadly, road "improvement" schemes in the 1960s have left the church stranded in the middle of a traffic island, with traffic on the A11 roaring past on both sides.
Roman Road, Bow, London E3.
This ornate plaque commemorates the laying of a stone by the philanthropist John Passmore Edwards in 1900. Vernon Hall was built in 1901 as Bow Library and Passmore Edwards contributed two-thirds of its £6,000 cost. .
Something for you lovers of Valentine's Day from this old curmudgeon.
Wellington Row, Bethnal Green.
L'habitant ...... ©TonyAvon2011
The old Victorian market is now a modern tourist attraction. Fashion shops, a plethora of restaurants of all types, antiques and general craftware stalls. Open to the public and a very popular attraction. Butnot a coster monger in sight.
The original offices, in the buildings which served as a boundary for the market are still there and at ground level are top-end shops.