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A  gang of four walk  from  Bromley by Bow to  Bow Road on  19th August 2025. A warm, gray day.

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We followed the Easterly arm of the River Lea rather the intended western.

Bromley by Bow

On TV (top right)

No longer a pub in a very poor area

But it's a Park?

Saved from after Northumberland House was demolished. 1750 design...

.....a detail

Baby?

Madonna

Rattle Snake?

Mother and child burden

Closed (today) Cafe behind. Part of Bow Health Centre

Forty Years of BBC

Aquarium?

Gandhi stayed at Kingsley Hall during the 1931 Round Table Conference

Boy on a Rabbit

Side Entrance to Bow Health Centre

Drab skyscraper

Bow Creek

Three Mills Studio, were Oast Houses

Tide Mill, 1776

Clock Mill

Olympics Park pumping station on the horizon

A friendly pup

Heron on a stick...

....a detail

Mirror

Memorial to a 1901 industrial accident

Bow Locks

Who is knocking?

Tug for Hire

Over to the island

Coffee shack

Good posture

Blackwall Tunnel approach road

"East London Dance" studio

River Lea

The Triple level Bow Interchange

 

Bow Church

Nunnery Gallery...

.....with an art class

Nunnery Cafe

Draw this!

Steve is given a card

Placards for a play

"Noor", 7 day barber

Gladstone behind a barrier now, with a red painted hand

Was the Poplar Town Hall....

....a detail

Bromley Public Hall

Bow Bells pub, no food until 5pm

Old Bow portrayed. The Match Girls who struck in 1888 for reasonable conditions are not shown. Bryant and May paid for the Gladstone statue by the church

A posh restaurant was packed out.

The "Mighty Bite"....

.....a tiny cafe where we had lunch, no loo. We all visited the pub next door!

"The Little Driver" next door. No food

A local

Bow Police Station (shut)

East London Magistrate's Court

TREDEGAR HOUSE 99 Bow Road

A frequent tag

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