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View of the former Claybury Hospital tower from Claybury Park
Now part of the Repton Gate housing development, named after Sir Humphrey Repton. Looking north-northeast.
Image: © Robert Lamb
Taken: 25 Apr 2015
0.06 miles
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View of the Shard, Walkie Talkie, Gherkin, Heron Tower and Tower 42 from Claybury Park
Looking south-southwest.
Image: © Robert Lamb
Taken: 25 Apr 2015
0.14 miles
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View of Canary Wharf and the Stratford Eye from Claybury Park
Looking south-southwest.
Image: © Robert Lamb
Taken: 25 Apr 2015
0.16 miles
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Path into Hospital Hill Woods, Claybury Park
Claybury Park was once part of the Claybury estate, held by Barking Abbey from the 12th century. It contains Claybury and Hospital Hill Woods, remnants of the ancient woodland of Hainault Forest. Claybury was developed into a fine gentleman's estate from 1786 by James Hatch, who built a new mansion, expanded the estate and commissioned Humphry Repton to advise on landscaping the parkland. In 1887 the estate was sold and Claybury Asylum was built by 1893 on the brow of a hill, the first mental hospital built by the new London County Council. From 1893 to 1918 it was called Claybury Asylum, from 1918 to 1937 Claybury Mental Hospital, and from 1937 to its closure in 1995 Claybury Hospital
In 1997 the Health Authority sold the Hospital estate for an exclusive private housing development, renamed Repton Park, but 18 hectares of ancient woodland and 38 hectares of parkland became part of a new public park, Claybury Park. This also incorporated Redbridge Open Space to the south, itself part of the Claybury estate until the 1880s. For more about Claybury Hospital see http://hidden-london.com/gazetteer/claybury/ and http://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/claybury.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claybury_Hospital
This path leads into Hospital Hill Wood. This was a freezing day where early fog had cleared to mist. The nearby ponds were still frozen.
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 25 Jan 2017
0.17 miles
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View of the Stratford Eye and Arcelo-Mittal Orbit from Claybury Park
Looking south-southwest.
Image: © Robert Lamb
Taken: 25 Apr 2015
0.17 miles
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View up the trunk of the Wild Service Tree in Claybury Wood
Looking east.
Image: © Robert Lamb
Taken: 25 Apr 2015
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View of bluebells in Claybury Wood #4
Looking north-northeast.
Image: © Robert Lamb
Taken: 25 Apr 2015
0.18 miles
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Acoustic Telephone
Part of the play equipment in Claybury Park includes this acoustic telephone. The concrete parabolic reflectors are uncannily similar (except in size) to the acoustic aircraft detectors of the 1930's see
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Image (Ironically these in the picture were made in Germany). When I was a kid we had to use coco tins and bits of string.
Image: © Glyn Baker
Taken: 27 Nov 2011
0.19 miles
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Hospital Hill Wood
Part of, or at least contiguous with, Claybury Park.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 2 Jun 2012
0.19 miles
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View over East London from Claybury Park
Looking south-southwest, with Owen Waters House on Fullwell Avenue on the right.
Image: © Robert Lamb
Taken: 25 Apr 2015
0.19 miles