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Meath Crescent, LONDON, E2 0QL

Parish Boundary Marker in the parish of Stepney (Tower Hamlets District), Meath Gardens E2, Southern boundary of park, reset with 2 BG stones in brick circle. Surveyed Milestone Society National ID: MX_MEOT02pb.

Parish Boundary Marker in parish of Bethnal Green (Tower Hamlets District), Meath Gardens E2, Southern boundary of park, reset with 2 BG stones in brick circle. Surveyed Milestone Society National ID: MX_SMBG04pb

Parish Boundary Marker in parish of Bethnal Green (Tower Hamlets District), Meath Gardens E2, Southern boundary of park, reset with 2 BG stones in brick circle. Surveyed Milestone Society National ID: MX_SMBG03pb

Once a common sight on London's waterways from the Surrey Docks to Edmonton, these overhanging timber sheds await development. [Edit] Demolished mid 2007

Former cemetery, now open space with children's centre and playground. http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.asp?ID=THM028

Looking south-southwest.

Looking south-southwest.

I thought I'd just pass the time away whilst I had a spare moment after my lunch break taking a walk around the campus of Queen Mary and taking some "behind-the-scenes" photos. If you walk all the way up the Regents Canal path adjacent to the student residences at Queen Mary to the GER bridge and look left, you get a view of these brick arches carrying the railway as well as a small green, leading to the bins for the nearby halls of residence and a small car park beyond. This is actually as far as you can go into the top-left hand corner of this square (on this side of the railway, anyway). Not the most exciting of views, but an interesting one all the same. View taken looking north-northeast towards Globe Town on the other side of the railway.

Construction of a national canal network began in the late 18th century, but initially the canal from the Midlands ended at Paddington, and there was no link to eastern London until the Regent's Canal was built. It was the brainchild of engineer Thomas Homer who, in 1812, presented a plan to the Grand Junction Company (which owned the canal from London to Birmingham) for the creation of a waterway from Limehouse to Paddington. To begin with the project progressed quickly, largely passing through what was then agricultural land, but it was soon hampered by financial problems. Stubborn and greedy landowners asked inflated prices for property along the preferred route, and, to make matters worse, Thomas Homer disappeared in 1815 taking the company's funds with him. New legislation passed in 1817 enabled the work to be completed by 1820 using funds borrowed from the Treasury. The canals were initially a success, particularly for transporting coal, building materials and other bulky loads, but the rise of the railways not long after the canals were built substantially reduced their importance. Now they are primarily a leisure facility. What was then the Central Electricity Generating Board laid cables under some of the towpaths in the 1970s, as here, and made them suitable for pedestrians again. This is the Regent's Canal, just north of the main railway line out of Liverpool Street where it crosses over the canal. The bridge is also relatively new, although it has already been scarred by graffiti. The flats could have hardly been built any closer to the canal. Mile End Park is on this side of the canal.