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Earlier this year the stretch of Derbyshire Street alongside Oxford House was turned into a pedestrian and cycle way, and landscaped as a 'pocket park'. The plants are now maturing and this is now turning into a pleasant public space.
Oxford House has aspirations to reopen its café, and is planning to use part of the pocket park as an outdoor seating area.
Ravenscroft Street (off Columbia Row), Bethnal Green.
Our neighbours Andrew and Tsy have set up a 'pop-up' coffee and cake stall every Sunday inside 'Organics', a gardening shop. Andrew bakes the cakes and muffins himself and they are to die for - in particular, the savoury muffins are not to be missed!
The stall was supposed to run to the end of February, but it looks like it will continue for a while longer. .
If you are visiting the Flower Market on a Sunday, do pop in, have a coffee (or tea) and a muffin or a slice of cake - and tell them I sent you!
A flurry of snow hit Bethnal Green just after 2pm on Tuesday 27th February.
It only lasted fifteen minutes or so. But i expect there's more to come .....
I spent an hour trying to neutralise those green spots - selective colour balance/hue/saturation treatment, cloning, semi-opaque brushes, even converting the whole image to grayscale, but nothing quite worked, so I ended up leaving them in... if anyone knows a good technique to handle flare spots, let me know!
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.
Tower Hamlets Council recently received a grant to refurbish run-down buildings and shopfronts along a stretch of Bethnal Green Road, between Brick Lane and Shacklewell Street. The pavement outside has also been renewed; trees have been planted and new seating and cycle parking provided, as seen here.
Robin Hood Gardens, Poplar, London E14
Alison and Peter Smithson, completed 1972 and unlikely to survive more than another 2 or three years.
"In spite of all the controversies surrounding their work, then and now, [the Smithsons’] must be rated as Britain’s most important architectural designers, and especially architectural thinkers, during the period 1950-1970. Their idea of community architecture was exceedingly influential throughout the world. RHG is the only proper concrete manifestation of their concepts and is thus of extreme importance, not only historically speaking, but also for the present, as the concept of ‘design for the community’ still holds its fascination for architects and housing reformers."
Professor Stefan Muthesius, University of East Anglia
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/dec/05/robin-hood-g...
Intricate terracotta work on the Royal London Hospital Outpatients Building in Stepney Way.
At the time this was built the Hospital was known simply as the 'London Hospital', not gaining the 'Royal' prefix until 1991.
A member of the audience asks a question of the panellists. Audience members get the chance to write down any questions they may wish to put to the panel and ten are selected. The panel do not get to see any of the questions beforehand.
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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.
Crossways Estate in Bow ... affectionately known locally as the Three Ugly StepSisters ... nice. Shot from an 11th floor stairwell in the Lansbury Estate in All Saints.
Montfort House was built by the East End Dwellings Company in 1901 to provide affordable, decent housing for working people in the area. It is named after Simon de Montfort, who is reputed to have been "The Blind Beggar". His beautiful daughter, Bessy, had four suitors and de Montfort is said to have have disguised himself as a beggar to see if the men would still want his daughter if she had a destitute father. Only one suitor stayed faithful, and when de Montfort revealed his true identity he rewarded the young man handsomely for his devotion to Bessy.
love this staircase, big respect to the architect Berthold Lubetkin, if others matched his vision we may not of reached ronan point and high rise housing may not of become so maligned so for so long
One of the islands in Victoria Park's larger lake is now accessible via either of two bridges. This decorative bridge is in keeping with the new red and green (turquoise) pagoda that has been built on the island.
Victoria Park, London, England, Uk
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.
Art installation by Kendra Haste, referencing the Tower's history.
The Royal Menagerie at the tower began with King Henry III’s white bear, which caused quite a stir amongst Londoners in 1251. Records show that the creature, a gift from the King of Norway, had a chain ordered for its leg so it could fish in the river.
[Culture24]
Originally housed early washing machines for residents of the esate to do their laundry. There was a lady on the tour who grew up in the estate before WWII. She recalled the large machines, the drum rollers used to ring out the clothes and the overall heat and steam inside the building.
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.