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The Chinese Garage is a former garage and petrol station situated in Beckenham in the London Borough of Bromley, on a roundabout linking Beckenham, Eden Park and Shortlands. Built in 1928 to a Japanese pagoda style design by Edmund B. Clarke, it was voted the most unusual garage in England in 2001. It currently hosts a Tesco Express and ...
Bromley, commonly known as Bromley-by-Bow, is a district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London, located on the western banks of the River Lea, in the Lower Lea Valley in East London. It is an inner-city suburb located 4.7 miles (7.5 km) east of Charing Cross .
The dark store format was seen by Tesco as a more efficient way of dealing with the expansion in online sales. The retailer planned to open one dark store per year "for the foreseeable future". [11] By 2013, Tesco had opened six dotcom centres in and around London, and was responsible for 47.5% of online deliveries made in the UK. [4]
Old Town Hall, Poplar High Street. In 1921 the borough council, under George Lansbury and the Poor Law Union were engaged in a dispute with the London County Council and central government over poor law rates – it wished to pay out of work people more than usually permitted; and to get wealthier West End boroughs to contribute to its expenses.
Sep. 30—The Bow School District and administrators are being sued in federal court by three parents and a grandparent who say their rights were violated when they were barred from school grounds ...
The Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum in 1871. The Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum was established in Devons Road in 1868. [4] This institution was renamed St Andrew's Hospital in 1921, after a nearby church that was destroyed in the First World War.
This became The Bow and Bromley Institute, then in 1887 the East London Technical College and a Salvation Army hall in 1911. From the 1930s it was used as the Embassy Billiard Hall and after the war became the Bow Palais, but was demolished in 1956 after a fire. [17] The London E postcode area was formed in 1866, with the E3 sub-division in ...
It is a triple-level junction where the East Cross Route (the A12), Bow Road (the A11 road), and Stratford High Street (the A118 road) meet. The River Lea runs underneath the junction. The East Cross Route is a major road in East London which runs north to the North Circular Road and south to the Blackwall Tunnel .