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The City towers over the Wentworth Street Market, just off Commercial Road, Aldgate. 20th March 2009, first day of Spring.
For just a few minutes around 6.20pm the low evening sun cast an orange glow onto the side of these buildings.
Then it was gone.
"Victoria Park Village" in Estate-Agent speak. A surprisingly affluent corner of Hackney just to the north of Victoria Park. Although the Park is actually in the Borough of Tower Hamlets it is well used by Hackney residents.
In spring, the new leaves of the pieris emerge in a vivid splurge of red. 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.
"Mr Recycle More" stomps on through the crowd.
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Meath Gardens.
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. These are two of the few branches that did come down.
Joseph Truman started brewing in Brick Lane in 1683. The brewery grew over the years and had buildings on both sides of Brick Lane. Expansion continued into the 20th Century, but brewing ceased in the 1980s and the buildings have now been put to a variety of uses including a conference centre, restaurants and bars.
A fire broke out in a block of flats in the early afternoon of Sunday 26th October. The Fire Brigade arrived quickly and damage was limited to the top floor of the stairwell.