Posts Tagged ‘River Lea’
‘Avid reeders’ use much-maligned plant to tackle pollution in River Lea
‘Army’ of reedbed volunteers are using nature to fight pollution in an operation to clean up East London’s waterways
Read MoreSir Steve Redgrave launches Lea Rowing Club boathouse
Olympic legend ‘delighted’ that new facility supports junior rowers
Read MoreAlong the Hackney Canal – book review: ‘A refined eye for the sublime’
Freya Najade’s stunning collection of photographs elevates a seemingly narrow subject into the realm of the sublime
Read MoreAdrift: A Secret Life of London’s Waterways, review – ‘serious and fascinating’
Poetic, informative and thoroughly researched, Adrift is author Helen Babbs’s account of living on the canals and waterways of London
Read MoreCounting East London’s eels as they ebb from the River Lea
Once omnipresent in culture and waterways, efforts are now under way to tally – and save – the area’s dwindling eel population
Read MoreDrowning of teenager Jack Susianta who fled police was accident, inquest rules
Police reject criticism they seemed ‘hesitant’ to help as teenager disappeared in river Lea
Read MoreFeral – Ulli Mattsson review: 'urging new water through old riverbeds'
Laplander Ulli Mattsson has penned an elegiac musical tribute to her homeland
Read MorePolice seemed ‘hesitant’ to enter river Lea to help drowned teenager, inquest hears
Witness tells inquest that there ‘didn’t seem to be any sense of urgency’ to save Jack Susianta, who drowned after he was chased by police
Read MoreVinyl fantasy – The Record Deck casts anchor on the banks of the Lea
A floating record shop is making waves amongst music lovers and providing an alternative lifestyle for its owner
Read MoreMan dies hours after being pulled out of River Lea
A passer-by alerted emergency services after spotting a pile of clothes and a bike on the towpath yesterday morning
Read MoreLove the Lea festival returns to Walthamstow Marshes
Environmentally-friendly festival includes pond-dipping, water quality testing and taking photos and filming underwater
Read MoreBeside the Leaside
Passionate canal lover Sam Napper captures life on the Lee Navigation in a series of dream-like photographs
Read MoreScience and art combine to highlight River Lea pollution
Project to creatively document pollution in the River Lea produces some stunning results
Read MoreFoam mountain engulfs River Lea
Environment Agency investigating after suspected detergent pollution at Lea Bridge Weir
Read MoreThe New English Landscape by Jason Orton and Ken Worpole – review
Sea-washed Essex landscapes the focus of essay by Stoke Newington-based author
Read MoreOtters in the Lea Valley: just another anglers’ tale?
Do these shy and mysterious creatures really live close to Hackney?
Read MoreWaterways charity calls for solutions to River Lea pollution
Thames 21 explains how the River Lea has become so polluted and suggests a plan of action
Read MoreLea Rowing Club celebrates successes
All welcome at local rowing club’s event on Saturday 28 July, marking the end of the race season and the start of the Olympics
Read More‘Olympic monster’ appears on eBay
Mysterious beast lurking in the River Lea close to the 2012 Olympics site may have surfaced on eBay
Read MoreHouseboaters being ‘forced out’ of Olympics area
River Lea residents claim they are being priced out and uprooted from their community by British Waterways
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