Cody Dock secures funding to restore Thames Ironworks boat

East London’s Cody Dock has been awarded nearly £1.7 million to restore a historic vessel made by Thames Ironworks and construct a new heritage centre for Newham.

Lee Valley ice rink opening with £1 skate day

The hugely enlarged Lee Valley Ice Centre is reopening next month, and they have an opening day offer of skating for a quid, if you register in advance.

A campaign to create a wild swimming water park in East London

A set of derelict Victorian waterworks that once cleaned water for London through large filtering beds could be turned into a series of open-water swimming baths, if a campaign group can buy the land they sit in.

Rolling bridge proposed for East London

A bridge that rolls over to allow boats to pass through, and then back for humans to cross could be built at Canning Town.

London’s Public Art: Allen Jones Aerobic

East London has a very large, yet very easy to miss sculpture in full view of people who shouldn't look at it.

Walking the Lea Valley – East India Dock Basin

A small nature reserve at Blackwall is all that remains of one of Dockland's many docks that once served goods from India, and later supported the D-Day invasions.