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  The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is now open which means that after some years it is again possible to divert east and look at the Bow Back Rivers. The best entry into the park when walking south is at Hackney Wick where you can go up on to the White Post Lane Bridge and […]

The Line funding appeal has hit £141,000. It looks as if the north-south sculpture trail from the ‘Olympic Park’ to the O2 will go ahead. And this will open that last stretch of the Lea Valley Walk on an authentic route by way of Cody Dock. An announcement is expected shortly.   invloves putting a […]

Rupert Christiansen writes in The Daily Telegraph today in support of The Line. This is the sculpture trail which will open up the last section of the Lea Valley Walk by putting a footbridge across Cody Dock entrance. A look at the crowd funding page shows that the total raised has suddenly shot up to £25,000. […]

Tottenham Hale Station is to be upgraded ready for high passenger numbers. The ticket hall will be enlarged and steps removed. The station, used by those joining or leaving the Lea Valley Walk at Tottenham Lock, is an interchange between National Rail trains operated by Greater Anglia and Underground services. The work will begin next […]

Danny Boyle is backing the The Line project which will allow the vital Cody Dock bridge to be built and complete the Lea Valley Walk. Simon Myers, founder of the Cody Dock Project, says that Newham has more waterways than Venice. Mark Wallinger is also on board. You can see the film and pledge here.

Good news in the Evening Standard today. The Line is a proposed arts trail which Megan Piper wants to open this summer. The route from Stratford to the Thames will include the installation of a vital footbridge at Cody Dock. This will be the final link to complete the Lea Valley Walk. A £150,00 crowdfunding […]

The Thames21 project to tackle pollution in the River Lea in London has won support from HSBC. A £490,000 grant will include regeneration of existing reedbeds and the creation of mini sustainable drainage systems. There is recent dramatic evidence that pollution has killed of thousands of fish this summer after heavy rain washed vast amounts […]

The charming Kentish ragstone St James’s Mission Room in School Nook behind the Princess of Wales at Lea Bridge is in danger of being turned into flats. The plan was to have open a canal heritage centre built in the tiny 1841 building but not enough money has so far been raised. Last minute attempts […]

The Old Barge at the start of navigation in Hertford is featured in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide 2014. The pub is seen as soon as you cross the bridge from Bull Plain in Hertford. It’s on an island in the Lea although this is not immediately clear. Also mentioned in the guide is Lombard […]

Brewer Sir Benjamin Truman (1700-1780) is buried in Hertingfordbury churchyard near Heetford. Sadly famous Truman’s ceased brewing in 1971 and the name disappeared having been bought by Heineken. But now it has been bought back and brought back to London. Last week the new brewery opened 25 miles downstream from Hertfordshire on Fish Island near […]