View of King George's Reservoir from the London LOOP
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View of King George's Reservoir from the London LOOP
Image: © Marathon Taken: 27 Sep 2017
The London LOOP heads uphill from Daws Hill to pass near the top of Barn Hill. On the way up this provides fine views across the Lea Valley. In this photograph on a misty early autumn day after a foggy start King George's Reservoir can be seen below. For King George's Reservoir, the excavation and building of the surrounding embankment of the reservoir, nearly five miles in length, was carried out almost entirely by a manual labour force of 1,000 navvies, and the surplus excavated clay was spread over part of Hackney Marsh. In 1913 King George Vth and Queen Mary named the reservoir and pressed the buttons allowing water from the River Lea to start flowing into the storage bowl.
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Image Location
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51.656436
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0.001099