The Lea Valley Walk now passes under the Bow Flyover Junction. A ’suspended’ pathway alongside the River Lea will be officially opened later this year but the route can be used now. This means that walkers approaching the end of the Olympic Park boundary from the north will cross a new wooden bridge to go […]

So successful has Folly for a Flyover been on the towpath just north of Hackney Wick that it is still open. The cafe will be open from 12.30pm on Saturdays and Sundays until Sunday 21 August. Then it will be dismantled.

Tottenham is a large place and many see Tottenham High Cross as its centre. The eastern boundary is the River Lea and it was on Ferry Lane Bridge, just below Tottenham Lock, that Mark Duggan was shot dead on Thursday evening. The looting which followed 48 hours later was at Tottenham Retail Park near Tottenham […]

I think it was somewhere south of Ware last week that I saw an angler with a giant crayfish on the end of his line. Monster crayfish are a huge problem in the Lea Valley where they have been illegally introduced to the detriment of the more familiar small crayfish. See story here.

Rye House Gatehouse is to be open Sundays & Wednesdays from Sunday 24 July to Sunday 28 August except on Wednesday 10 August. Admission is now £1.95 (conc £1.40). The excellent tea hut at Carthagena Lock is now open weekdays 9am-6pm and Sunday 10am-4pm. See pages 77-79 and 81-83.

How far south do you see deer in the Lea Valley? Despite the Olympic Park last night a deer was seen in the Limehouse Cut. The East London Advertiser has a report. See page 121.

Good to see that Prince Charles went along to Trinity Buoy Wharf last Wednesday afternoon. This is at the confluence of the River Lea and the River Thames where there is a lighthouse which the Prince visited. He also went into the Driftwood Cafe which has organic food. A cafe visit is a perfect place […]

At weekends from Saturday 25 June to Sunday 24 July there will be a café under the bridge just before the start of the long Olympic park fence. This temporary facility is part of the Folly for a Flyover project occupying the space under the Eastway flyover and alongside the towpath. The café’s daily changing […]

Great Amwell Church has confirmed that its doors are open every Sunday afternoon 3-5pm until the end of September. Tea and biscuits are available. See page 71.

The Lea Valley Walk really now ends at Hackney Wick due to the closures caused by the Olympic preparations. There is even a diversion to the diversion at Hackney Wick which is enough to make you go for the train. However, it’s worth pushing on south a little bit further. The current route south from […]