On Thursday 2nd March 2017 I had a gathering at Cody Dock about my photographic exhibition there later within the yr. The climate forecast was good and promised me a day with blue sky and a few clouds, excellent for my images, significantly for some panoramas, the place a transparent blue sky or sullen gray overcast are each killers, so I rushed to get on an earlier prepare than I wanted for the assembly to offer time to take a stroll alongside part of Bow Creek earlier than the assembly.
Years earlier there had been plans for a stroll beside Bow Creek all the best way from the place it meets the Thames at Trinity Buoy Wharf as much as the Stratford to affix the tow path beside the Lea Navigation, however thus far just some separate sections have materialised. The unique plans envisaged two bridges taking the trail throughout Bow Creek, and though a contest was organised (and gained) for designs for certainly one of these, neither had been constructed, largely as a result of the cash wasn’t there.
As an alternative the plans have been modified to utilize present bridges, however important riverside sections stay closed, both due to present customers of the land refusing entry or due to new developments happening within the space. One such improvement, that of London Metropolis Island has just lately offered a brand new bridge which permits another path to the mouth of the creek.
A part of the issue has in all probability been that the stroll is alongside the boundary of two native authorities, Tower Hamlets and Newham, with sections in each.
I walked one part earlier than the assembly, however got here to a locked bridge which led to a reasonably prolonged detour, and ended up with me having to run alongside the West India Dock Highway to catch the DLR to get to the assembly in time.
There may be at the moment no path between that highway and Cody Dock which might have been a quicker route for me. As an alternative I took the DLR from Canning City one cease to Star Lane, from the place a stroll by means of an industrial property took me to Cody Dock.
After the assembly I used to be capable of rejoin the riverside path, now renamed the Leaway after I and lots of others made enjoyable of its earlier title because the Fatwalk, and made my method to Stratford.
On my manner I used to be happy to discover a newly opened hyperlink from Twelvetrees Crescent (named after a Mr Twelvetrees who constructed a bridge there to his manufacturing facility) to the footpath between the river and the Lea Navigation, enabling me to keep away from the relatively nasty detour between right here and the trail through the horrendously busy Blackwall Tunnel Strategy highway.
This a part of the Leaway is now walked way more, not least as a result of if types a part of of ‘The Line’ sculpture path, which relatively roughly follows the Meridian from Greenwich to Stratford. However these following this nonetheless have, like me, to take the DLR or stroll alongside busy and dusty roads from Canning City to Cody Dock.
There was nonetheless loads of daylight left by the point my wanderings took me to the DLR Stratford Excessive Road station, the place I entrained again to Canning City for just a few extra footage which each lack of time and the place of the solar had made unattainable earlier than my assembly. Then it was again to the station for the Jubilee Line again to central London.
Many extra footage from these walks on My London Diary at:
Three Mills & Stratford
Leawalk to Bow Locks
Cody Dock
Bow Creek Canning City
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