Edith's Streets

Channelsea River, Waterworks River Channelsea River, and the Waterworks River flow south east The Great Eastern Railway to Ilford coming from Bethnal Green Station goes northwards into Stratford Station and leaves running north west. This page contains a very substantial part of the Olympic park and the Westfield Shopping Centre– it is proposed at this stage to ignore this, so the page reflects the area before this work started Post to the west Hackney Wick Post to the south Abbey Mills Post to the east Stratford Post to the north Hudson Town Angel Lane This was once a major shopping street. It once went down to the Broadway and there were lots of side streets off it 131 The Railway Tavern designed by Henry Poston, 1897. Angel Lane Bridge . 19 th bridge now replaced. There is likely to have been am earlier bridge crossing the railway from 1839. The present bridge is deck and parapet walls are made of wrought-iron plate girders. The line under the bridge is not in ...

River Lea and Bow Back Rivers The Lea Navigation/Hackney Cut flows south through this area; the aqueduct from Lea Bridge ran alongside it.   The Navigation is met by Duckett’s Cut (or the Hertford Union Canal part of the Grand Union Canal) from the east.   The Old River Lea flows south and is met from the north by the old course of the Waterworks River, which intercepts with the Channelsea River.   The Channelsea River then flows south and east. The Waterworks River leaves the Old River Lea above Carpenter’s Lock (?) and flows south and east. City Mill River leaves the Old River Lea below Carpenters Lock and flows south and east. Pudding Mill River leaves the Old River Lea and flows south and east. This page contains a very substantial part of the Olympic park – it is proposed at this stage to ignore this, so the page reflects the area before this work started Post to the north Temple Mills Post to the east Stratford Post to the south Old Ford Beachy Roa...