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Bethnal Green London E2.
An underused cul-de-sac alongside Oxford House and Weavers Field has been redesigned as a "Pocket Park", including a cycle and pedestrian path, a cycle park, seating, and features designed to reduce rainwater run-off and encourage insects and birds.
Naval Row is a continuation of Poplar High Street, and runs to the south of what was formerly the East India Export Dock.
Afternoon sun beginning to set on Meath Gardens, which was created from the former Victoria Park Burial Ground.
The storm which swept across Southern Britain during the morning of Monday 28th October 2013 did very little damage in Bethnal Green, probably because it was shielded from the direct winds from the South-West by the tall buildings of the City of London.
The show's producer Howard Shannon giving the audience a pep-talk before recording commences, talking us through how the afternoon's recording would proceed and reminding us to applaud in the right places!
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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.
Dunbridge Street, Bethnal Green. A class 315 unit approaches Bethnal Green Station with a Liverpool Street to Chingford service.
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.
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Georgian houses close to Stepney Green. In the 1700s Mile End Old Town was a fashionable place to live for well-to-do merchants, traders and sailors who needed to be close to the River, but wanted to escape the crowded riverside communities such as Ratcliff, Wapping and Limehouse.
Collingwood Street, Whitechapel, London E1.
Horrid, horrid, horrid. And to think someone actually sat at a desk and designed this.
The open space of Meath Gardens, Bethnal Green, stands on the site of the former Victoria Park Cemetery. Opened in 1845, when it closed to burials 30 years later it contained around a quarter of a million bodies, such was the appalling death rate in the impoverished Bethnal Green of Victorian times. It was reopened as a public park in 1894.
The arch stands at the Usk Street entrance to Meath Gardens and originally supported the cemetery gates. It had fallen into disrepair and was in danger of being demolished, but fortunately this small but vital piece of East End history has been saved and restored.
Wapping is one of my favourite areas of London. Once a busy dock, when the docks closed much of the area became run-down. Today it is one of the richest parts of London, with the old wharfes now transformed into luxury flats, but unlike many areas of London, the transformation has taken place whilst retaining it's history. The old wharfes are now beautifully restored, and the narrow, winding cobbled streets give the area a lot of character.
Narcissi, forsythia and white blossom in Museum Gardens, Bethnal Green.
At the Spring Equinox the day and night are of equal length; in the Northern Hemisphere day will now be in the ascendant and our focus becomes more to the outer than the inner. It is the time when the signs of new life are everywhere, when the life force itself seems unstoppable.
The ancient Germans celebrated a Godess names Oastra, whose symbol is an egg, another symbol of spring fertility. This symbol endures today with chocolate easter eggs and painted eggs, and traditions such as egg-rolling. The female hormone, oestrogen, is named after her.
As with many festivals, Christianity has adapted the traditions of older religions and Christians celebrate Easter - the rebirth of Jesus Christ. Unusually though the date is determined by a lunar event - Easter Sunday is taken each year as the first Sunday after the first full moon following the Spring Equinox, which means it can occur as early as 23rd March and as late as 25th April. Easter is the only Christian festival to follow a lunar rather than a solar calendar.
There used to be a railway coal depot at the end of this street. It included a mechanical hoist to raise and lower trucks to the East London Line.
Statues of hay reinforced with steel frames, these sculptures by the Romanian-born scuptor Erno Bartha were installed in Victoria Park Lake for the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games . They were intended as temporary structures and will remain in situ until they disintegrate.
Rear of the flats in Ainsley Street, Bethnal Green, London. Darkness at 7.35pm on 19th September.
As with the Spring Equinox, the day and night are once again equal. However from here, in the Northern Hemisphere, it is the dark that will now be in the ascendant. The Harvest, which began at Lammas/Lughnasadh at the beginning of August, should now be completed. The days are now getting noticeably shorter - in London the darkness appears a good three hours earlier than it did at Midsummer in June. It is also getting noticeably colder, especially at night. Even the sun is not as high in the sky as it was, leading to that pleasant dappled light just as the leaves on the trees start to wither and fall.
Greek mythlogy tells the story of Demeter, whose daughter Kore is abducted by Hades, Lord of the Underworld. In her despair she blasts the earth with her wrath, and nature begins to die. She summons him to Mount Olympus, home of the Gods, and the judgement is that Kore shall remain in her mother's realm, earth, for eight months of the year; and spend four months in the Underworld with Hades. This seems to correspond well with the period around the festivals of Samhain, literally Summer's end, which occurs at the end of October and is associated with falling leaves, decay and dying; and the festival of Imbolc, at the beginning of February when signs of growth once again start to appear.
Pagans see this as a time of transition, and certainly this time of year is associated with high tides and winds which can bring storminess in their wake. As the Spring Equinox is a time to turn our thoughts outward, so the Autumn Equinox is the time to start looking inwards again. Many Pagans choose this time to rededicate themselves to their chosen spiritual journey.
Captain Cook lived in a house at 88 Mile End Road 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.
The sole visual reminder of this long-closed pub (it ceased trading in the early 1990s). The pub, near the junction with Columbia Road, originally opened in the early 1700s and was rebuilt in the 1880s.