Canning City, Cody Dock and Stratford: On Thursday 2nd March 2017 I made a relatively convoluted stroll alongside Bow Creek and the Lea Navigation, organized round a gathering I had at Cody Dock. You couldn’t then – and may’t fairly but stroll beside the river the entire approach, however to get to the assembly I needed to abandon a small a part of the primary stretch and catch the DLR, strolling on from the assembly to Stratford Excessive Road the place I caught the DLR once more to return and full the brief half I’d needed to miss out earlier.
Bow Creek & Canning City
On this part of My London Diary I included footage taken each at the beginning and on the finish of my stroll, which started at Canning City Station.
The riverside walkway at Canning City is open after a few years and may take you to the bridge to London Metropolis Island.
Individuals had been residing in among the blocks on the “Island” however there was nonetheless a variety of work persevering with on this space which Bow Creek loops round on three sides. One other bridge was constructed throughout the DLR tracks to permit folks from South Bromley in Tower Hamlets a pedestrian path to the riverside path and Canning City station. Open for a short while it closed properly earlier than the station entrance grew to become open, and a gate on it was firmly locked after I tried to cross it.
This meant I needed to make a prolonged detour strolling across the Ecology park to get to the Blue Bridge which took me to the East India Dock Highway.
This meant I needed to hurry again to Canning City Station to get the DLR to Star Lane for my assembly at Cody Dock and couldn’t then stroll alongside the north facet of the street to take extra footage.
Cody Dock
I made just a few footage on my stroll from Star Lane to Cody Dock, after which relatively extra after my assembly, at first within the dock itself,
after which on the riverside path, fortunately renamed from ‘Fatwalk’ to ‘Leawalk’ and part of ‘The Line’ sculpture path.
Leawalk to Bow Locks
I paused briefly to {photograph} a sculpture created from buying trolleys in a mock DNA double helix.
My subsequent cease was to {photograph} the The Imperial Gasoline Gentle and Coke Co’s 1872-8 Bromley-by-Bow gasholders and the battle memorials – initially at Beckton – with an everlasting flame subsequent to a monument to firm staff killed in each World Wars.
Steps main down from Twelvetrees Bridge at Bow Locks took me right down to the towpath beside the Lea Navigation.
Three Mills & Stratford
Three Mills is a tide mill relationship from 1776 (although on the location of earlier tide mills talked about within the Domesday Guide) on the Three Mills Wall River. It’s the largest tide mill within the UK and the most important surviving in Europe.
One other sculpture on The Line, unveiled on the centenary on Three Mills Inexperienced and moved to this place on Brief Wall is by Alec Peever and commemorates three males who died in 1901 They died going to assistance from a fourth who had been overcome by the shortage of oxygen on the backside of a properly they had been investigating.
I walked on to Stratford Excessive Road, turning west to go to Bow Bridge and the Lea Navigation earlier than going again beside St Thomas’s Creek and alongside Stratford Excessive Road to the DLR Stratford Excessive Road Station for the prepare to Canning City.
Extra from Bow Creek
It was starting to get just a little darkish as I got here out from the station to {photograph} from the north facet of East India Dock Rd.
This was nonetheless an industrial space though a big space appeared now to be unused. I believed it might most likely not be lengthy earlier than this space too was coated in flats as I walked again to the station.
You may see many extra footage and skim extra concerning the stroll in my 4 posts on My London Diary:
Three Mills & Stratford
Leawalk to Bow Locks
Cody Dock
Bow Creek Canning City
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