Last July I wrote about the centenary of the first British flight which took place in the Lea Valley. Flight pioneer Sir Alliott Verdon-Roe, working from a railway arch on Walthamstow Marshes managed to get a few feet off the ground on 13 July 1909. At the celebration held in front of the arch, Eric [...]
I am interested to discover that the new film Fantastic Mr Fox was made the Three Mills Studios. This is another major feat to add to the long list of inventions and creations in the Lea Valley. The studios up to now have been known for Kavanagh QC, Bad Girls, Footballers’ Wives and, of course, [...]
Leo Hickman has an interesting article in today’s Guardian on the River Lea. There has been recent suggestions that it could and should be much cleaner.