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It is one of my favourite streams in the east of London. I've walked it a few times - never quite deciding where the source is (Your guess is as good as any I've read).
I did have a post myself on this stream, but it vanished in a wordpress crash some years back. |
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This brought back childhood memories of living just around the corner from Brook's Parade on Mayfield Road. My parents house backed into the Mayfield School site. I remember Brtok's Parade being constructed during the 1970s. Prior to this it was the site of a wood yard and Mayes Brook ran in a natural open channel along the back boundary. It was put into a culvert and the new building constructed over it. The school grounds used to be allotments and the brook provided a natural source of water to the allotmenteers. The lake on the park was developed during the 1960s and at one time has rowing boats for hire from a boat house. Nice blog - thanks.
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To find out old watercourses, and indeed many other features, now covered by suburbia your friend is the old 6 inch Ordnance Survey maps archived and freely accessible in the National Library of Scotland. The appropriate link in this case is http://maps.nls.uk/view/102342281 . It appears that Mayes Brook has two sources just north of Eastern Avenue - some ponds at Padnall Corner and a former farmyard at the junction of Rose Lane and Sheepcotes Road.
Have fun with these maps - I've used info from your blog to organize our own social outings for some time now so this is a little present in return! |
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Lengthy green footbridge: known locally as the Iron Bridge. Great map Edward Edragon; my dad was born at Grove Farm around the back of which the Mayes Brook flows...
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And the area round the lakes (WW2 bomb craters I think?:) in Mayesbrook Park are/were known locally as "matchstick island". Really not sure why
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Very nice read - was looking at the stream on Google Maps and trying to work out the source - thank you for your efforts
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