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Refugee camp during the First World War 1915 - 1919 During the First World War Alexandra Palace was taken over by the Metropolitan Asylum Board to house refugees fleeing Belgium and the Netherlands. In these pictures you can see how the spaces inside the Palace were transformed

Could London run out of water? Yes. So what should we do about it? A less easy question to answer…

The ugliness of modern drinking fountains is not just a problem in Glasgow. London’s look like this. They’re a great idea and easy to spot, but handsome they ain’t…

The Thames in art, Chiswick #art #Thames #paintings #Chiswick #rivers

#RemembranceSunday #RemembranceSunday2024

Army & Red Cross camp on #Leyton #Marshes next to the site of the East London Waterworks Park 🏊🍃💚🍃🏊 #EastLondonWaterworksPark, during the National Railway Strike 1911 & Great Unrest. Some of these soldiers & horses may have died in WW1. #RemembranceSunday2024 #History H/T David Alan Russell

#ArmisticeDay2024 East London Waterworks Park 🏊🍃💚🍃🏊

c.1940-41 air raid bomb damage, close to East London Waterworks Park 🏊🍃💚🍃🏊 #EastLondonWaterworksPark in the #Leyton Filter Beds, at Waterworks NR, Lee Valley Park. Beyond, we can see the Waterworks #railway wagons, Well House No.2 & #Hackney Power Station. #Blitz #Water #History #Lea #Lee #EastLondon

Porters Field prefab estate in 1949, (looking NW), close to the site of East London Waterworks Park 🏊🍃💚🍃🏊 #eastlondonwaterworkspark. On #Leyton Marshes & #Lea Bridge Rd, where the Riding Centre is now, across the road from the Waterworks NR Lee Valley Park. Photo: Historic England #History #Blitz

Such a charming photo - baby boom or what! H/T walthamstow in pictures #Boomers #Baby #Boom #Postwar #Midcentury #Blitz #Prefabs #Leyton #Marshes #Lea #Bridge

Over on the right hand corner of the photo is the remains of Lea Bridge Stadium with the stand that I believe still remains to this day (partly).

#Blitz #bomb damage at the #MiddlesexFilterBeds, close to East London Waterworks Park 🏊🍃💚🍃🏊 #eastlondonwaterworkspark, on 24/9/40, 18 days into The Blitz, with #River #Lee Navigation & Millfields, or #Hackney Power Station beyond. The Waterworks & Power Station were early targets.#blitzfilm #history

Sunset at Queens Road Cemetery, Walthamstow today at 3.32pm. #Walthamstow #QueensRoadCemetery #WalthamForest #East #London #Sunset

Red fox and magpie yesterday at Queens Road Cemetery, Walthamstow. #walthamstow #queensroadcemetery #wildlife #fox #urbanfox #walthamforest

When Reginald Pole returned to England from self-imposed exile, having not supported Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon, he was given the benefice of Vicar of 'Piddletowne' 1532-1536, on the #River #Piddle in Dorset (seen on this Saxton map of 1575). #WolfHall #History

#Bubblebarrier installed May 20 by ISS_Flowthrough on #River #Lee Navigation at Pond Lane Flood Gates, near the site of East London Waterworks Park 🏊🍃💚🍃🏊 #EastLondonWaterworksPark, to oxygenate the #water & stop floating #pollution / direct it to a collection point to enable removal. #Lea #Ecology