Comments on: Along The River Lea

By: Akkers

Akkers — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 14:00:02 +0000

Another good article. I have walked along the Lea many times over the years as I used to live in Hackney and I still go back there today to do the same. Always manage to spot something that I haven’t seen before and its a nice relaxing walk.

By: Pauline Taylor

Pauline Taylor — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 13:28:41 +0000

My great grandparents lived beside the River Lea at Ferndale, Spring Lane and my grandfather was a champion sculler in the single sculls, I still have some of the prizes that he won, he could also skate and swim and I have a a very big photograph of all the members of an athletics and rowing club that he belonged to in which he is sitting cross legged in the front row, this was taken in the late 1890s.

I have been for a walk along Spring Lane but of course the houses have been demolished as they were often flooded so it was quite emotional for me. Lots of other family history for me in Clapton as my other great grandfather had a florists and garden contractors in Upper Clapton Road with a nursery garden close by.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 09:52:16 +0000

Your unidentified bird is an Egyptian duck

By: lynne casey

lynne casey — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 09:34:10 +0000

The water fowl is an Egyptian Goose.

This is a lovely walk, my son lives in Clapton and we have walked along the River Lea many times (sometimes stopping at a nice pub for lunch).

By: Andy Morrison

Andy Morrison — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 09:16:59 +0000

Water Fowl question: It’s an Egyptian Goose.

By: Greg T

Greg T — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 09:07:00 +0000

? Egyptian Goose ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_goose

By: Richard Cleaver

Richard Cleaver — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 08:52:00 +0000

I spent many an hour wandering the towpaths and banks of the Lea and surrounding canals when an impoverished student living in a dingy basement flat in Clapton during the early 80’s. Clapton was a different place back then, and Sach Road where we lived was almost unrecognisable in its gentrified state on a recent visit. Happy days, if poor.

Your water bird is, I think, an Egyptian Goose….introduced from Africa, but widespread in Southern England now.

By: Vivienne Palmer

Vivienne Palmer — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 08:49:41 +0000

Good Morning Gentle Author,

Your waterfowl looks like an Egyptian goose, increasingly common in the south of England

By: David Nix

David Nix — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 08:47:15 +0000

That is an Egyptian Goose!

By: Annie S

Annie S — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 08:33:09 +0000

Great photographs!
I live in Stamford Hill and often go for walks along the Lea – we are so very lucky to have the river near, it makes you feel you are in a different world.