There were 57 walkers on this morning’s Walk London walk down the Lea Valley Walk from Tottenham Hale. There was bright sunshine. We made up for the cold by walking quite briskly. I hope we did not go too fast but everyone kept up. In warmer weather there might be time for longer stops and [...]
Today I have been checking the route for Saturday’s Walk London walk from Tottenham Hale to Three Mills. It was a wonderful sunny morning and the forecast suggests we shall enjoy another on Saturday. The new High Bridge at Spring Hill was due to be craned into place today. We shall find out if that [...]
This morning there is a reminder of the time when the Lee Valley was ‘London’s greenhouse’. The Daily Telegraph has an obituary of Bert Hazell who has died aged 101 and was the oldest living former MP. A former president of the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers, he first joined the union [...]
A rare diversion on the Lea Valley Walk is at Enfield Lock to visit Myddelton House, the HQ of the Lee Valley Park Authority. Good news in this credit crunch is that the Heritage Lottery Fund has given £477,000 to the garden of Myddelton House. Edward Bowles, born at the house in 1865, created the [...]
Tottenham Marshes, Leyton Marshes and the Middlesex Filterbeds are three of the 21 sites in London where sparrows are to be encouraged. The attempt to restore London’s declining sparrow population is being made by the RSPB. Working in partnership with six local authorities and organisations, a £170,000 SITA Trust funding will allow the Society to [...]
Just back from a briefing for the Walk London ‘Winter Wanders’ at the end of the month. On Saturday 31 January I shall be leading the walk from Tottenham Hale Station south along the Lea Valley Walk to Three Mills. Just after Old Ford we shall divert to see how work on the Olympic stadium [...]