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Things on the walk

Abandoned pubs: Places to have a cup of tea: S mells: Things that have gone: The Seven Stars, Brick Lane Rosa’s Café, Hanbury Street Drains, Vallance Road/Fakruddin Street Ayshford House, Weavers Fields The White Horse, Bishops Way Pellici’s, Bethnal Green Road Fried Chicken, Weavers Fields Wei Hong Oriental Mini Market, Cambridge Heath Road Oxford House Café, Derbyshire Street Urine, railway footbridge Hole in the red wall, Bishops Way Architectural Oddities: Daily Café, Three Colts Lane The heap that was Bestway, Bishops Way Concrete walled garden, Hanbury Street Arches Café, Three Colts Lane Places to sit: Warehouses on Cheshire Street Railway Follies/sculptures – visible through fence, The low wall by the petrol station, Cambridge Heath Road Mayfield House Coin-Operated Automatic Laundry under railway arch Pedley Street – extra follies Places to have a pint of beer: In the green space, between Buxton St. & Pedley St. Bratley Street have been made visible, and the spot tidied and The Pride of Spitalfields, Heneage St 2nd bench on the right, Weavers Fields (coming from Three Fight Club in the Joiner’s Yard tended The Approach Tavern, Approach Rd Colts Lane) Smell of pastries/cakes, Glass Street Frankle Trimmings, Bethnal Green Road (look right The Carpenters, Cheshire Street St Matthews churchyard, St Matthews Row The red wall, Bishops Way, Russia Lane and Parmiter St at the end of Buckfast Street) The bushes, Parmiter Street Places to pause: Places to visit: The shoe tree on the wire, Pedley Street Churches and Places of Worship: Footbridge over the railway, Pedley Street, Spitalfields City Farm, Weaver Street The Flying Hut St Matthews Bethnal Green, St Matthews Row wait for a train to pass underneath Repton Boxing Club, Cheshire Street Fleet Street Hill Built on the Rock International Ministries, Herald St Matthews church, St Matthews Row – or in KPM School of Knowledge, Vallance Road Access to the main part of Pedley Street Street (note new neon cross and minibus) the porch if closed Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood, Cambridge Heath Rd. Railway arches adjacent to Grimsby Street – listed, used Good News Assembly, Cambridge Heath Road Low brick wall at the petrol station, end of Burial Ground, Brady Street – closed and slightly off the to contain second-hand furniture and clothing shop – St John Bethnal Green, Cambridge Heath Road Paradise Row route, but beautiful to look into from the gate not previously on the route

Miscellaneous: Things on the ground: Paint/DIY merchant, Cambridge Heath Road, corner of Interesting Shop Windows: Witan Street (now Student Accommodation) Banglatown Cash and Carry, Spital Street Ram with silver eyes, Buxton Street Painted green line, Brick Lane, Pedley St. and Buxton St. New Bestway Chunks of stone, Pedley Street Electrical wholesalers, Cambridge Heath Road (now Blackman’s Shoe shop, Cheshire Street Sainsbury’s Local) Grocery and Fish Shop, Dunbridge Street The new shoe trees, Pedley Street Burnt out bed, Pedley Street railway arch New graffiti, under arch, Pedley Street – Heaps of ash and electrical components, Glass Street View, from western end of Bethnal Green Road towards Wedding Shop, Dunbridge Street City (slightly off the route), of mound of Bishopsgate Happy Nightmares Bed Shop, Vallance Road white paint love message Onions and Green peppers (kebab?), Grimsby Street Old/Ex council Offices/‘One Stop Shops’, now Goodsyard, and tall buildings of city beyond Nuha, Vallance Road Hand Car Wash (with hand painted signs), Hackney Road Iqra, Vallance Road empty and derelict looking – one on Views into/out of the city: Cambridge Heath Road, and one on Birkbeck Derbyshire Street entrance to Weavers fields, (off the route slightly), now Tesco Express Room Corner, vintage shop, Cambridge Heath Road Abandoned pub/squat, Three Colts Lane (now a building Street looking southwest to the city Offices in Makeshift Buildings: Three Colts Lane, outside the station looking directly west site – new flats) Virsons Ltd, Blue shed at the top of stairs, Places to pee: From western end of Bethnal Green Road towards City The Duke of Wellington, Three Colts Way (now one wall) Bushes in Weavers Fields (slightly off the route) - view of new railway bridge, which Dunbridge Street Stop the walk I want to get off: ITC Taxis, Three Colts Lane, near the station Oxford House, Derbyshire Street forms a concrete wall between the city and Bethnal Green The Carpenter’s Arms – ‘For Customer’s Only’ From South end of railway footbridge across to city - over Bethnal Green station, Three Colts Lane Electrical Substation, Coventry Sreet next to the Bethnal Green tube, Cambridge Heath Road railway arch - Beware mud arena with no building as yet happening, empty space See also: Places to have a cup of tea/ Places fenced in. Cambridge Heath station, Cambridge Heath Road Cudworth Street, right next to the railway line Bus 254, Cambridge Heath Road to have a pint of beer Bus 8 and 388 Bethnal Green Road Places to eat (daytime) Places to kiss/mug: Rinkoffs, Vallance Road Pedley Street railway arch Nico’s café and diner, Cambridge Heath Road

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