It has been a lovely sunny day on the towpath.

However, I have a report that the  towpath closure between Ponders End and Picketts Lock was not lifted for the Bank holiday weekend as advertised.

There are free photocopied maps in racks at either end of the closure showing the diversion route.

The well-signed diversion is via Meridian Way, Lea Valley leisure Complex and Picketts Lock Lane.

The ‘community relations’ hotline is 0800 021 7890.

More news later I hope.

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Walk London’s ‘Spring Into Summer’ weekend is at the end of this month.

I shall be leading the ‘Lower Lea Valley’ afternoon walk on Saturday 30 May starting at the very south end of the Lea Valley Walk.

We meet at Limehouse DLR Station at 2pm. The first stop will be the swing bridge in Narrow Street where the Lea Valley Walk starts -or ends. This is where Lea navigation joins the Thames.

Then we go into Limehouse Basin and past St Anne’s Limehouse -a magnificent Hawksmoor church – on our way to the Limehouse Cut.

We shall of course pause at Three Mills before starting to follow the Olympic Park.

If we are able to go up to the viewpoint I shall post the news here the day before.

We shall end after about five miles at Hackney Wick Station. But you can of course drop out at Three Mills where there is the nearby Bromley-by-Bow underground station.

All Walk London walks are free.