{"id":14587,"date":"2023-03-21T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=14587"},"modified":"2023-03-19T10:06:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T10:06:49","slug":"bow-creek-east-india-dock-way-april-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=14587","title":{"rendered":"Bow Creek, East India Dock Way, April 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I only had time for a short walk on Friday 7th April 1989, cycling home furiously from the college where I was teaching at noon as I had no afternoon classes, picking up my camera bag and rushing to catch a train into London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Essex<\/a>\n<\/div>
Essex Wharf, Bow Creek, Pura Foods, Wharfside Rd, Canning Town, Newham, 1989 89-4b-31<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Canning Town, where I was heading, was on the other side of London and not then the easiest of places to get to before the DLR and Jubilee lines were completed. My journey involved a slow transit around North London on the line from Richmond on the North London Line to the old Canning Town station immediately north of the A13 East India Dock Road, next to Stephenson Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Bow<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If you are not familiar with the geography of this area, a small clip from OpenStreetMap<\/a>, slightly enhanced, will help. The East India Dock Road on this map is labelled Newham Way, which is here a flyover above the road itself. The former station I used was just to the north of this. Pura Foods was inside the loop which is now London City Island and there was no bridge across the river at the top of the bend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Essex<\/a>\n<\/div>
Essex Wharf, Bow Creek, Flood Barrier, Pura Foods, Wharfside Rd, Canning Town, Newham, 1989 89-4b-34<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A subway close to the station entrance took me to the other side of this busy road, where I had a view of Bow Creek, northern end of its loop dominated by Pura Foods, looking across waste ground where the DLR would shortly run. The flood barrier on Bow Creek became redundant when the Thames Barrier was built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Essex<\/a>\n<\/div>
Essex Wharf, Bow Creek, Pura Foods, Wharfside Rd, Canning Town, Newham, 1989 89-4b-35<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I moved slowly west along the East India Dock Road, stopping to take occasional images. There was a considerable amount of waste including old tires dumped here, but it was also a working industrial area, with workers cars parked alongside the river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Essex<\/a>\n<\/div>
Essex Wharf, Bow Creek, Pura Foods, East India Dock Rd, Canning Town, Newham, 1989 89-4b-26<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The main business on this side of the river appeared now to be the sawmill, though I also photographed the sign board for Haughton Engineering, but I’m unsure whether they were still in business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Bow<\/a>\n<\/div>
Bow Creek, Pura Foods, Wharfside Rd, Canning Town, Newham, 1989 89-4b-11<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It seemed to me an area which cried out for some panoramic images, and I took a set of three overlapping handheld pictures – the left of the set above – intending to combine them – which back then would have involved cutting and pasting the three together, but later I found I couldn’t quite get them to match up. Even when it became possible to do this digitally I found I hadn’t quite made these precisely enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Bow<\/a>\n<\/div>
Bow Creek, Pura Foods, Wharfside Rd, Canning Town, Newham, 1989 89-4b-12<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was experiences like this that led me a couple of years later to save up and buy a proper panoramic camera – I think the first one cost me around a month’s wages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"London<\/a>\n<\/div>
London Sawmills, Bow Creek, Wharfside Rd, Canning Town, Newham, 1989 89-4b-13<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I continued walking west, the road on a low viaduct giving me a good view of the area to the south, coming to a timber yard where Bow Creek flowed into the area, going down south towards Orchard Place before turning north to go back towards the East India Dock Road where I had taken the earlier images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"London<\/a>\n<\/div>
London Sawmills, Bow Creek, East India Dock Rd, Canning Town, Newham, 1989 89-4b-15<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’ll post about the second and final part of this short walk later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I only had time for a short walk on Friday 7th April 1989, cycling home furiously from the college where I was teaching at noon as I had no afternoon classes, picking up my camera bag and rushing to catch a train into London. Canning Town, where I was heading, was on the other side … Continue reading Bow Creek, East India Dock Way, April 1989<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[10003,148,890,3629,3594,6857,17,1343,11760,1114,83,3591,442,3628],"class_list":["post-14587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-londonphotos","category-my-own-work","tag-10003","tag-bow-creek","tag-bridges","tag-canning-town","tag-essex-wharf","tag-flood-barrier","tag-london","tag-london-photos","tag-london-sawmills","tag-newham","tag-peter-marshall","tag-pura-foods","tag-tower-hamlets","tag-wharfside-rd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14587"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14591,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14587\/revisions\/14591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}