I continue my virtual walk downriver towards Hackney Wick.
Past the Clapton Park Estate: Norbury Court, Bakewell Court, Ambergate Court and Sudbury Court at 172 Daubeney Road, each 20 stories with 114 flats, approved by Hackney Council in 1968. Three were demolished by explosions in 1993-5 but Sudbury Court was sold to a private developer who gave it a relatively minor make-over and renamed it Landmark Heights.
Somewhere I passed a canal-side factory –
as well as the wide expanse of Hackney Marshes, with what must surely be more football pitches and anyone needs
as well as some wilder areas where the hogweed grows
and was ambushed by a group of children
who demanded I take their pictures.
Clost to Eastway I came across a travellers site
close to the River Lea, here looking a very serious river away from the navigation.
My walk continued but in a less linear fashion wandering around Hackney Wick – in the next episode. You can see all the pictures and more in my album River Lea – Lea Navigation 1981-1992.
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