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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 Lower Lea Valley can be described as the part to the south of the long chain of reservoirs which end with the East and West Warwick Reservoirs. The Lea changes course at this point, changing from a SSW to a SSE direction for the last 5 miles (8.0 km) before its confluence with the Thames at Blackwall and Canning Town.
Bromley-by-Bow (/ ˈ b r ɒ m l i b aɪ ˈ b oʊ /) is a London Underground station located on the Blackwall Tunnel Northern Approach Road in the Bromley-by-Bow area of London, United Kingdom. The station is below the Blackwall Tunnel Northern Approach Road and lies between Bow Road and West Ham stations on the District and Hammersmith & City ...
The line passes over the Windrush line (on the East London line railway) at Whitechapel station continuing on the 2-mile (3.2 km) former Whitechapel & Bow Railway to Bow Road where it surfaces, and then to Bromley-by-Bow, where it runs alongside the London, Tilbury and Southend line from Fenchurch Street.
It was over a decade afterwards, in October 2013 that they announced plans for another, at Bromley-by-Bow, in East London. [10] The term 'dark store' first appeared in the UK in 2009 [citation needed] when Tesco opened their first such supermarkets in Croydon, Surrey, and Aylesford, Kent.
Devons Road is a Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station located in Bromley-by-Bow. The station takes its name from the B140 Devons Road and is between Langdon Park and Bow Church stations and is in Travelcard Zone 2. It is on the Stratford to Poplar branch of the DLR with services continuing on to Canary Wharf and Lewisham.
The station building was located on the north side of Bow Road and straddled all four platforms. In 1892 the station which had been rebuilt in 1867 was an imposing building. The ground floor, which, was designed by architect Edwin Henry Horne and it was not until 26 March 1870 that the building was completed. Bow and Bromley Institute c 1907