Wetlands Steve
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#River #Lea #Lee #Valley #Park #Marshes #Wetlands #History #Heritage #Wildlife #Waterworks #Walthamstow #Leyton #Hackney #Haringey #WalthamForest #East #London
Walthamstow, London
Joined September 2015
#Bubblebarrier installed May 20 by @FlowthroughIss on #River #Lee Navigation at Pond Lane Flood Gates, near the site of @ELWaterworks #EastLondonWaterworksPark, to oxygenate the #water & stop floating #pollution / direct it to a collection point to enable removal. #Lea #Ecology
Annual maintenance and service at the Lea bridge ISS Flowthrough bubble barrier. @CanalRiverTrust #river #canal #bubblecurtain #marinelitter #plasticpollution #cleanwater
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Red fox and magpie yesterday at Queens Road Cemetery, Walthamstow. #walthamstow #queensroadcemetery #wildlife #fox #urbanfox #walthamforest
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Sunset at Queens Road Cemetery, Walthamstow today at 3.32pm. #Walthamstow #QueensRoadCemetery #WalthamForest #East #London #Sunset
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#Blitz #bomb damage at the #MiddlesexFilterBeds, close to @ELWaterworks #eastlondonwaterworkspark, on 24/9/40, 18 days into The Blitz, with #River #Lee Navigation & Millfields, or #Hackney Power Station beyond. The Waterworks & Power Station were early targets.#blitzfilm #history
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Over on the right hand corner of the photo is the remains of Lea Bridge Stadium with the stand that I believe still remains to this day (partly).
Porters Field prefab estate in 1949, (looking NW), close to the site of @ELWaterworks #eastlondonwaterworkspark. On #Leyton Marshes & #Lea Bridge Rd, where the Riding Centre is now, across the road from the Waterworks NR @leevalleypark. Photo: @historicengland #History #Blitz
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Such a charming photo - baby boom or what! H/T @InWalthamstow
#Boomers #Baby #Boom #Postwar #Midcentury #Blitz #Prefabs #Leyton #Marshes #Lea #Bridge
@Walthamsteve @ELWaterworks @LeeValleyPark @HistoricEngland Gladys Fox with her daughter Val 1949 baby contest at Porters Field Prefabs Rosemary Fox was born there 1952
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Porters Field prefab estate in 1949, (looking NW), close to the site of @ELWaterworks #eastlondonwaterworkspark. On #Leyton Marshes & #Lea Bridge Rd, where the Riding Centre is now, across the road from the Waterworks NR @leevalleypark. Photo: @historicengland #History #Blitz
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c.1940-41 air raid bomb damage, close to @ELWaterworks #EastLondonWaterworksPark in the #Leyton Filter Beds, at Waterworks NR, @LeeValleyPark. Beyond, we can see the Waterworks #railway wagons, Well House No.2 & #Hackney Power Station. #Blitz #Water #History #Lea #Lee #EastLondon
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'Average life expectancy of a bomb disposal officer in the first months of the Blitz was 10 weeks'. https://t.co/E9I3kpwRL1
@HistoryNet @PhoneyMajor
#Pressure #PTSD #Stress #Trauma #Bravery #Courage #Medals #Blitz #London #War #History #Bomb #Disposal
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Bomb disposal during London’s Blitz was a job for the brave—and the lucky. A little after first light on Sunday, May 11, 1941, a bomb disposal squad
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Lt R Davies & Sapper G Wyllie of the Royal Engineers, were awarded the GC for removing & disposing of this massive time #bomb 12/9/40. Wyllie located the bomb 27ft below ground & sat on it to keep it steady while Davies drove it to #Hackney #Marshes. #Blitz #Film #EastLondon #Lea
Sep 1940 a 2 ton bomb that landed next to St. Paul's Cathedral failed to detonate. Army bomb-disposal experts extracted the live bomb and drove it to #HackneyMarshes where it was safely detonated, making a 30-metre-wide crater. #History #Heritage #LeaValley #RemembranceSunday2020
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Could London run out of water? Yes. So what should we do about it? A less easy question to answer…
If the capital runs out of water, what then? By @highamnews, taken from @Feargal_Sharkey's guest-edited special edition https://t.co/WaDFfbbY3v
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The ugliness of modern drinking fountains is not just a problem in Glasgow. London’s look like this. They’re a great idea and easy to spot, but handsome they ain’t…
In Glasgow's beautiful Botanic Gardens. @scottish_water it's great you provide drinking water. But the contrast between the ugly blue plastic pump and its beautiful predecessor is stark. How about restoring water to the fountain as a public spirited gesture? @alexplant
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'The Quiet River: The Thames at Chiswick' (1943–4) by Victor Pasmore (Tate)
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For #ArmisticeDay, here's a 1938 Luftwaffe strategic bombing photograph, targeting the #LeaBridge Waterworks #Leyton (marked out in red ink), the proposed site of the #EastLondonWaterworksPark
@ELWaterworks. Images courtesy of The #WalthamForest Archives & Local Studies Library.
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Army & Red Cross camp on #Leyton #Marshes next to the site of the @ELWaterworks #EastLondonWaterworksPark, during the National Railway Strike 1911 & Great Unrest. Some of these soldiers & horses may have died in WW1. #RemembranceSunday2024 #History H/T @liminalhackney @soxgnasher
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Refugee camp during the First World War 1915 - 1919 During the First World War Alexandra Palace was taken over by the Metropolitan Asylum Board to house refugees fleeing Belgium and the Netherlands. In these pictures you can see how the spaces inside the Palace were transformed
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Injured soldiers on the River Lea during World War I. #History #Heritage #LeaValley #RemembranceSunday2020
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