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One of your four local sights listed is "Spratts", I am assuming that you are refering to the building at 47 Bow Road, is that correct?
I make that assumption as that was the building where Tower Hamlets Planning team were located up until about six months ago, it was then vacated and locked up prior to selling the site for another new residential development, but in the meantime it has been squatted and now boasts several anti war posters in the first floor windows.

dg writes: That's the place. Cheers, I've tweaked my description to fit these latest developments.

Angela Lansbury is George's grand-daughter, not daughter. She's 82 now, by the way.

dg apologises: Daughter, He Wrote.

Ha-ha, nice one DG.

Really enjoying the HS2012 series - takes me back to my time at QMC (now QMU).

Anyway, George Lansbury would have been Leader of HIS Majesty's Opposition. George V was on the throne at the time!

"where nobody will ever stop to read it." Not true obviously since you did.

dg writes: Agreed. But it's taken me at least 50 passes before I've dared to wander over to the wall in the corner (behind the noticeboard) (behind where the ticket gate supervisor usually stands) to have a peek.

Ah yes, it was whilst standing on the platform at Bow Road that I realised I needed to visit an optician.

I'm not certain but I'm sure the Council had reserved the St Clements site to extend the Southern Grove buildings into a new town hall - the lease on the current town hall towers must have been extended if they're still there.

Just wanted to say thanks for this series, really enjoying it.

"I'm not certain but I'm sure the Council had reserved the St Clements site to extend the Southern Grove buildings into a new town hall - the lease on the current town hall towers must have been extended if they're still there."

I fact Both the St Clements site and the Southern Grove site have been earmarked for residential redevelopment, the lease on the current town hall which is located at Clove Crescent E14 has indeed been extended and the Council have also leased the major part of an additional building next door to it, this has enabled them to empty out many various buildings around the borough such as 47 Bow road, Southern Grove, Cheviot House, and Millharbour to name a few.

really enjoying this series. living near St Barnabas Church and interested in maps and local history, I am a fairly big fan of your blog anyway. but this has got me hooked.

Found out the other day that my great grandad was born just south of the mile end road, just opposite Queen Mary (where my husband now works) and that my great-great grandad worked in the stone yard that used to sit on the west bank of the canal just after it goes under the Mile End Road. Seems a funny coincidence, given that the intervening generations haven't lived in London at all.

and if you want happy stories of happenings along the road, we were married in Bow Registry office having given our guests a weeks notice. We got there on another east end institution - the no8 bus, then went for a curry. cracking day.

Another illustrious Lansbury grandchild is Oliver Postgate, Angela's cousin, creator and narrator of Bagpuss, the Clangers, Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog etc. His autobiography is well worth a read.

Nthing the general appreciation for the series, fascinating.











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