Comments on: In Old Bow

By: Peter McIntyre

Peter McIntyre — Sat, 04 May 2024 13:43:37 +0000

I’m interested to find out the name of what was once a large, presumably, Victorian building that stood on the site adjacent to the platform at Bromley by Bow underground station, which has been redeveloped now.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 15 May 2019 10:27:37 +0000

In the 1970’s there were only two of those houses standing on Wellington Way. One of them was a dentist. The rest have been built since, but in the same style.

By: felix

felix — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 17:42:15 +0000

The Bow Road Co-op was probably erected by the Stratford society, one of its last developments before it was amalgamated into the LCS in 1920, along with the Edmonton, Hendon and West London Societies.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 17:05:09 +0000

Kitcat Terrace–what a wonderful name! Any idea where it comes from? As always, beautiful and evocative photos.

By: Helen Breen

Helen Breen — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 12:08:40 +0000

Greetings from Boston,

GA, I enjoyed your tour through Bromley and Bow parishes with their Victorian (and other) style of architecture through spring blossoms. Great pics. Just hope that these sturdy structures and not subject to “urban renewal” of some sort…

By: Paul Lunn

Paul Lunn — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 10:10:44 +0000

Kingsland hall saw not only Gandhi , but some of the Jarrow marchers stay overnight

By: Mark Byfield

Mark Byfield — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:05:03 +0000

Great photographs… you have an eye for a good photo.

Mark

By: Jill Wilson

Jill Wilson — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 07:45:15 +0000

What a nasty shock the last photo was after all the beautifully detailed nineteenth century architecture!

I wonder if we will ever get back to creating well proportioned, well considered buildings?

By: murray batley

murray batley — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 06:49:01 +0000

Mahatma Gandhi insisted on staying at Kingsley Hall among the common people and the poor when he came to London to negotiate partition with Winston Churchill in 1931. He daily walked to Whitehall clad only in his meagre robes. He also met Charlie Chaplin at this time. In KH he set up his spinning wheel in a cell on the top of the building where he slept.
Kingsley Hall is the first purpose built community centre in the world, established by the Lester sisters in 1928 with the support of H.G.Wells amongst others.

‘Our greatest Englishman’ Winston Churchill said of Gandhi:-
It is alarming and nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well known in the east, striding half naked up the steps of the viceregal palace, while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience, to parlay on equal terms with the representative of the Emperor-King.
Commenting on Gandhi’s meeting with the Viceroy of India, 1931

By: VANDA HUMAN

VANDA HUMAN — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 06:31:56 +0000

My heart lies in the country of the forefathers and not in my birth country. Such beautiful homes, buildings and everything is so clean until you see the graffiti painted on the buildings/ bridges and some untidy gardens.