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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RT @ronhudson33: Over on the right hand corner of the photo is the remains of Lea Bridge Stadium with the stand that I believe still remain….
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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'. @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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RT @highamnews: Could London run out of water? Yes. So what should we do about it? A less easy question to answer….
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RT @highamnews: The ugliness of modern drinking fountains is not just a problem in Glasgow. London’s look like this. They’re a great idea a….
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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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RT @soxgnasher: Refugee camp during the First World War 1915 - 1919 During the First World War Alexandra Palace was taken over by the Metro….
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Injured soldiers on the River Lea during World War I. #History #Heritage #LeaValley #RemembranceSunday2020
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