Out & About Walk: Bow & Stepney Green, Bow, London
20 July 2011: Out & About Walk: Bow & Stepney Green
Graham is leading another of his historic walk through London, this time through Bow & Stepney Green. Finishing with optional drinks @ Half Moon pub, Stepney Green.
Early in the 12th century Bow was an isolated village, often cut off from the parish church at Stepney by flood. Permission was therefore granted to build a chapel at ease as a local place of worship. (During the reign of Mary many people were brought by cart from Newgate to be burnt at the stake in front of Bow Church.) However it was not until the early 18th century that the building became a parish church in its own right. In 1950 the church was locally listed as a building of historic importance. In the 17th century Bow developed as a centre for the manufacture of fine bone china, but manufacture ceased in 1770. Bow came again to industrial prominence in the late 19th century when the match girls of the Bryant & May factory went on strike. Subsequently, the area became closely associated with both the Labour Party and the Suffragette movement. However the Tredegar Square Conservation area boasts many fine Georgian town houses, which today command high prices.
Stepney grew out of the medieval village surrounding St Dunstan's church. In the 19th century the area rapidly expanded, mainly to accommodate immigrant workers and displaced London poor, and developed a reputation for poverty, overcrowding, violence and political dissent. It was severely damaged during the Blitz, with over a third of housing totally destroyed; and then, in the 1960s, slum clearance and development replaced most residential streets with tower blocks and modern housing estates. Some Georgian architecture and Victorian era terraced housing survive in patches; the eastern side of Stepney Green is particularly impressive.
The walk explores the most attractive features of both Bow and Stepney, linked by the Mile End linear park, and finishes at the Half Moon pub near Stepney Green tube station (District line) for a drink or even a late lunch.
As the Half Moon is a Wetherspoon pub you can eat there all day, as well as drink fairly cheaply!) However I should welcome your views on the best starting time for future mid-week walks.
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This event has been added to the OUTeverywhere calendar by Andrew MIlton from Hither Green in the London area.
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