please empty your brain below
Somehow I don't think that the A12 was built 400 years ago!

Ken | 20.05.20 - 7:11 a.m. | #

Ken, I think that you think that "the low 600s" is a reference to a range of years (about 1,400 years ago). I think that it's actually a reference to house numbers.

Regards

zin92 | 20.05.20 - 7:25 a.m. | #

Huh! Friends of mine once lived in the first floor flat of the Railway Tavern. I don’t think I ever twigged its name, it was rather grubbier then!

Mike PJ | 20.05.20 - 7:51 a.m. | #

The seventh photo is taken from the footbridge which maintains the pedestrian link provided by Old Ford Road...

dg interrupts: No it isn't.

Still Anon | 20.05.20 - 8:06 a.m. | #

I hope Mr Briggs' Hat gets a mention tomorrow.

martin | 20.05.20 - 8:10 a.m. | #

I remember that my Dad would occasionally drink in the Railway Tavern. And I do remember Old Ford Station, long closed but still there before the coming of the A12, and exploring in the goods yard to one side.
And in sign of getting old I also remember the original Lefevre Road and what replaced it.

Ken F | 20.05.20 - 9:14 a.m. | #

Are those radiators below the ground-floor windows of the Railway Tavern? Or sub-basement window grills?

MartinO'Holcombe | 20.05.20 - 9:30 a.m. | #

Thanks zin92, the lack of a correction means that I read it too early in the morning and didn't put 600 and 600 together.

Ken | 20.05.20 - 10:36 a.m. | #

Nothing changes with the changes apparently. cf 'neighbourhood watch/disapproval vibe'. In the 80's, as an evident 'alien' from out of area I was given the sharp elbow and vocal disapproval's for deigning to use local shops,or just attempting to use local shops. The frank unfriendliness soon curbed my desire to spend any of my time or money there.

B | 20.05.20 - 11:18 a.m. | #

Good stuff. What's interesting when compared to most closed railway lines is how comparatively recently this stub was built over, and how when the Motorway was pushed through in the 1970s it was ALONGSIDE it

Mikey C | 20.05.20 - 11:48 a.m. | #

No acknowledgement on the map seemingly taken from http://www.nlrhs.org.uk/history.html I see.

Messiah | 20.05.20 - 12:44 p.m. | #

I suspect that's actually an extract(also unacknowledged) from this book.

Jonathan P | 20.05.20 - 3:13 p.m. | #

The "extra two feeding spurs long since built over which allowed southbound trains to head towards Fenchurch Street or Plaistow" might also merit investigation, though looking at modern maps suggests to me that there would be even less to see of those. But DG has a knack of making silk purses out of sows' ears like these.

Malcolm | 20.05.20 - 3:55 p.m. | #

I'm an elderly cockney from Stepney with a keen interest in London history and many memories of Bow.

As regards Morville Street, there is a still from the 1957 film The Secret Place which shows the view west from the pedestrian tunnel under the Great Eastern Railway.

Here: reelstreets.com/secret-place-the

The still is capture 4, with an accompanying image of the same place in 2010. The film is available on youtube. I love watching 1950s films set in London locations, as that was the decade of my junior school days - formative years with many fond memories.

The Secret Place has so many familiar views - it takes me back to my life as a happy small boy in those streets.

A lot of British B movies of the 40s, 50s and 60s give wonderful depictions of the postwar state of our cities, and the lives of their denizens, far more evocative than I've ever found in any documentaries. Bomb sites were fabulous playgrounds for kids.

Gripper | 20.05.20 - 11:30 p.m. | #











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