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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.
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.
St Anne's Catholic Church (and its attendant Church House on the left), was built in 1855 by Gilbert Blount. It catered for the large numbers of Irish immigrants who were settling in the area. Today , as well as its own congregation the Church is home to Brazilian worshippers, for whom services are conducted in Portuguese.
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
Wednesday 25th February 2015 - the faded signs of long-vanished businesses in Padbury Court, Bethnal Green.
Trinity Almshouses - or to give them their full title, The Almshouses of the Trinity Brethren - were built in 1695 on land given by Captain Henry Mudd of Ratcliff. They may have been designed by Christopher Wren, although they are more likely to be the work of his pupil William Ogbourne. The almshouses were threatened with demolition in the 1880s but there was a successful campaign to save them and they were taken over by the London County Council and restored. The chapel was damaged in the Second World War but restored and now houses offices
Prisoners of noble birth found guilty of treason were beheaded with an ax. This oak block weighs 56.7kg (125lbs). Its curved cut-outs accommodated the head and upper chest, exposing the neck. According to tradition, it was used at the last public beheading on Tower Hill: Simon Fraser, 12th Baron Lovat on April 9, 1747. The ax dates from the 16th century and weighs 3.2kg (7lbs).
Execution Block (1746)
•Location: Tower of London, White Tower Second Floor West
•Object Number: XV.3
•Place: England
•Object Title: Execution Block
•Date: 1746
•Provenance:
oPre-1825—in the possession of Yeoman Warder John Poyndon.
o1825—Given by Poyndon to the Record Office. Accepted by Mr. John Bayley, handed on to Mr. Lysons and in turn to Mr. Petrie.
o1839—Presented to the Armouries by Mr. Petrie.
•Physical Description: Cut from the center of an elm timber, the heavy block is rectangular in section with deep segments cut in the longer top edges to accommodate the head and upper chest of the kneeling victim. The front cut-out is 12.2 inches, the rear one 16.2 inches. There are two parallel axe-cuts on the narrow section on which the neck rested.
•Dimensions:
oHeight: 24.8 in.
oLength: 21.8 in.
oWidth: 12.9 in.
oWeight: 125 lb.
•Associations:
oPlaces: England
•Bibliographic References:
oRoyal Armories, Royal Armories Tower of London [souvenir guide], Royal Armories, Leeds, 2000, p. 23 (col. illus. with XV.1).
oRoyal Armories, Royal Armories Museum [souvenir guide], Royal Armories, Leeds, 2000, p. 2 (col. illus. with XV.1).
•Notes:
oBy tradition this is the block used at the execution of Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, in 1747. The post Ffoulkes inventory gave the provenance of the block as follows:
“For a time it was in the possession of a Yeoman Warder of the Tower, John Poydon, who presented it to the Record Office in 1825. It was transferred to the Armouries in 1866 when the Record Office was moved to Chancery Lane.”
oThe 1857 Remain however shows the block to have been in the Armories at this time, and also gives a different donor:
“Queen Elizabeth’s Armoury”
Block Beheading, supposed to have been the one used in beheading the Lords Balmeris, Kilmarnock and Lovat, on Tower Hill 1746, and presented by H. Petrie Esq F.S.A in 1839.”
These two seemingly conflicting statements can probably be reconciled by reference to Hewitt’s[1870] and Ffoulkes’s[1916] Catalogues. Hewitt, describing the block under its old number of XVIII 24, says:
“This block was formerly in the possession of Mr. Lysons [ the well-known author of the Magna Britania ], Keeper of the Records; from whom it passed to his successor Mr. Petrie; and by the latter gentleman was presented to the Tower.”
Ffoulkes further records:
“The block was formerly in the possession of John Poydon, one of the Warders of the Tower. In a letter dated 15th March 1825, copied in the King’s House by General Milman in 1894, Mr.John Bayley, of the Record Office, acknowleges Poydon’s gift to his office. It was handed on to Mr. Lysons, and from him to Mr. Petrie [sic], who transferred it to the Armouries about the year 1866, when the Record Office was moved to Chancery Lane.”
Names and dates have become slightly inaccurate in some of these accounts, but the likely sequence of events seems to be that laid out under “Provenance” [see above].
oThe date 1866 for its presentation to the Armories is impossible because the evidence of the 1857 Remain. The date 1866 probably derived from the reasonable assumption that the most likely time for a transfer of a Tower object from the Record Office to the Armories would be when the Record Office left the Tower in 1866. [G.M.Wilson]. The same numner was used for a chastity belt of blued iron, no padlock, disposed of in 1972 for £100.
London, United Kingdom - Monday 09 July 2012, LBTH - Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Mayor Lutfur Rahman photographed at the Town Hall.
Bethnal Green, London E2. Both Merceron Houses (on the left) and the houses on the right were erected during the first decade of the 1900s to provide better housing for the "deserving poor" of the area.
This was my infants school know as Lawrence Street school.. I then went on to Teesdale Street school. Teesdale amalgamated with Lawrence when it was demolished and now the school is known as Lawdale
I've lived in Bethnal Green for fifteen years yet I had never walked down this street until last week.
This free-standing clock tower stands in front of the former People's Palace, on Mile End Road. It incorporated a drinking fountain; these were often provided by Victorian philanthropists as at that time it was difficult for poor people to find safe drinking water.
The People's Palace was built in the 1880s to be a pleasure pavilion for East Londoners, in the same way Crystal Palace and Alexandra Palace had become for South and North Londoners respectively. It also incorporated a technical college which gradually took over from the pleasure pavilion.
The technical college became Queen Mary College London, part of the University of London, in 1934 at which point the building became part of that University. It is now called The Queen's Building.
Prisoners of noble birth found guilty of treason were beheaded with an ax. This oak block weighs 56.7kg (125lbs). Its curved cut-outs accommodated the head and upper chest, exposing the neck. According to tradition, it was used at the last public beheading on Tower Hill: Simon Fraser, 12th Baron Lovat on April 9, 1747.
Execution Block (1746)
•Location: Tower of London, White Tower Second Floor West
•Object Number: XV.3
•Place: England
•Object Title: Execution Block
•Date: 1746
•Provenance:
oPre-1825—in the possession of Yeoman Warder John Poyndon.
o1825—Given by Poyndon to the Record Office. Accepted by Mr. John Bayley, handed on to Mr. Lysons and in turn to Mr. Petrie.
o1839—Presented to the Armouries by Mr. Petrie.
•Physical Description: Cut from the center of an elm timber, the heavy block is rectangular in section with deep segments cut in the longer top edges to accommodate the head and upper chest of the kneeling victim. The front cut-out is 12.2 inches, the rear one 16.2 inches. There are two parallel axe-cuts on the narrow section on which the neck rested.
•Dimensions:
oHeight: 24.8 in.
oLength: 21.8 in.
oWidth: 12.9 in.
oWeight: 125 lb.
•Associations:
oPlaces: England
•Bibliographic References:
oRoyal Armories, Royal Armories Tower of London [souvenir guide], Royal Armories, Leeds, 2000, p. 23 (col. illus. with XV.1).
oRoyal Armories, Royal Armories Museum [souvenir guide], Royal Armories, Leeds, 2000, p. 2 (col. illus. with XV.1).
•Notes:
oBy tradition this is the block used at the execution of Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, in 1747. The post Ffoulkes inventory gave the provenance of the block as follows:
“For a time it was in the possession of a Yeoman Warder of the Tower, John Poydon, who presented it to the Record Office in 1825. It was transferred to the Armouries in 1866 when the Record Office was moved to Chancery Lane.”
oThe 1857 Remain however shows the block to have been in the Armories at this time, and also gives a different donor:
“Queen Elizabeth’s Armoury”
Block Beheading, supposed to have been the one used in beheading the Lords Balmeris, Kilmarnock and Lovat, on Tower Hill 1746, and presented by H. Petrie Esq F.S.A in 1839.”
These two seemingly conflicting statements can probably be reconciled by reference to Hewitt’s[1870] and Ffoulkes’s[1916] Catalogues. Hewitt, describing the block under its old number of XVIII 24, says:
“This block was formerly in the possession of Mr. Lysons [ the well-known author of the Magna Britania ], Keeper of the Records; from whom it passed to his successor Mr. Petrie; and by the latter gentleman was presented to the Tower.”
Ffoulkes further records:
“The block was formerly in the possession of John Poydon, one of the Warders of the Tower. In a letter dated 15th March 1825, copied in the King’s House by General Milman in 1894, Mr.John Bayley, of the Record Office, acknowleges Poydon’s gift to his office. It was handed on to Mr. Lysons, and from him to Mr. Petrie [sic], who transferred it to the Armouries about the year 1866, when the Record Office was moved to Chancery Lane.”
Names and dates have become slightly inaccurate in some of these accounts, but the likely sequence of events seems to be that laid out under “Provenance” [see above].
oThe date 1866 for its presentation to the Armories is impossible because the evidence of the 1857 Remain. The date 1866 probably derived from the reasonable assumption that the most likely time for a transfer of a Tower object from the Record Office to the Armories would be when the Record Office left the Tower in 1866. [G.M.Wilson]. The same numner was used for a chastity belt of blued iron, no padlock, disposed of in 1972 for £100.
The Barclays Cycle Hire Scheme (to give it its official title) expanded to include Tower Hamlets from Thursday 8th March 2012. This is the docking station on Bethnal Green Road, outside La Forchetta, on the first day.
A reminder that William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, began his work here in the East End.
Thursday 1st January 2015 - children's bikes and a scooter locked up together outside Whitechapel Sainsbury's.
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.
'We are shadow'.
Sundial on side of building on the corner of Brick Lane and Fournier Street, Spitalfields, London E1. The building was erected as a Protestant Chapel for Hugenot refugees from France; the building has since served as a Synaggogue and is now the Jammie Masjid Mosque. It is believed to be the only building outside the Middle East that has served as a place of worship for all three of the main monotheistic religions.