Victoria Engine House, campanile & boiler house built c.1852 close to East London Waterworks Park 🏊🍃💚🍃🏊 #EastLondonWaterworksPark, photographed in 1938. The footings & stones from the engine well remain in place but have been reformed into the 'Nature's Seat' '#Hackney Henge' artwork. #History

1936 aerial photo of #Lea Bridge Waterworks the site of East London Waterworks Park 🏊🍃💚🍃🏊 #EastLondonWaterworksPark, from the south-east looking north-west. Can you spot the seven engine houses around the site? They're not easy to see but if you look for their chimneys you might find them. #History

'Iszard's dry dock', pastel and watercolour by T. van Thijskheide (1967), featuring the Musgrave Engine House, close to the site of East London Waterworks Park 🏊🍃💚🍃🏊 #EastLondonWaterworksPark. Built in 1922-24, this was the last of the 7 engine houses to be built at #Lea Bridge Waterworks. #History

'On #River #Lee not far from Horse and Groom' (1836) by T.H. Shepherd. The Horse and Groom inn on the site of East London Waterworks Park 🏊🍃💚🍃🏊 #EastLondonWaterworksPark, ran a fishery. The sign warns of the penalties for #fishing from that swim without the 10/-6d annual season ticket. #History #Art

Horse & Groom on the site of East London Waterworks Park 🏊🍃💚🍃🏊 #EastLondonWaterworksPark c.1822, by C. Bigot, viewed from the mill island (where the Middx Filter Beds are now). Featuring the ferry boat & also #fishing, the 2 sources of supplementary income for the inn. #History #Art #RiverLea

1905 view of the chimneys at East London Waterworks Park 🏊🍃💚🍃🏊 #EastLondonWaterworksPark, looking NE across South Millfields, on the path that still runs from the junction of Chatsworth Rd & Millfields Rd, to the #RiverLee Navigation. #Clapton #Hackney #History

1936 photo close to East London Waterworks Park 🏊🍃💚🍃🏊 #EastLondonWaterworksPark, of sheep grazing in Porters Field, where the Lee Valley Park Riding Centre is now. Beyond the field is the #LeaBridge Waterworks. (L-R): The Connaught, The Duke & Duchess & The Musgrave Engine Houses. #History #Marshes

c.1880s close to East London Waterworks Park 🏊🍃💚🍃🏊 #EastLondonWaterworksPark, looking north across the No.2 #Essex Filter Beds (now the Waterworks Nature Reserve) added in the 1860s, with (L-R): The Worthington, or Horizontal Engine House & the Duke and Duchess Engine House built 1878-1880 #History

Tracks at the Waterworks Nature Reserve, next to the site of East London Waterworks Park 🏊🍃💚🍃🏊 #EastLondonWaterworksPark, are the last vestiges of the narrow gauge railway engines, like this 1915 Kerr, Stuart & Co. Ltd 0-4-2ST, that transported coal & sand etc. around #LeaBridge Waterworks. #History

Sunken barge looking south on the old #RiverLea (1946) by T. van Thijskheide, at East London Waterworks Park 🏊🍃💚🍃🏊 #EastLondonWaterworksPark. Buildings (L-R): Octagonal Turbine House, built 1886; 'Turbine House' or 'Wheelhouse' & Victoria Engine House, both built c1852-4. #History #Art

'Near Lee Bridge, Horse & Groom Fishery' (1836), on the site of East London Waterworks Park 🏊🍃💚🍃🏊 #EastLondonWaterworksPark, an unfinished watercolour sketch by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd (1793-1864). The unpolluted water at the rural Lea Bridge, sustained this celebrated fishery until c.1860.

1872 watercolour of trees next to the site of East London Waterworks Park 🏊🍃💚🍃🏊 #EastLondonWaterworksPark, near footbridges over the #RiverLea, by Ruth A. Child (not Ruth, a child), an #artist who lived in King Edward's Rd, Hackney. Source: #Hackney Archives. #History #Heritage

c.1880s lantern slide of the Duke & Duchess Engine House at East London Waterworks Park 🏊🍃💚🍃🏊 #EastLondonWaterworksPark. Built 1878-80, to serve the No.2 Essex Filter Beds, (now the Waterworks Nature Reserve), it features a steam vent, disguised as a 'campanile' or bell-tower. #History #Architecture

Great to see water finally back in the #MiddlesexFilterBeds after all these years! Photos by David Ogle, posted on our Save Lea Marshes Facebook page #LeeValleyPark #LeaMarshes #LeaValley

We won the @NLALondon People's Choice award! Thank you to all that voted! We received more than 4000 for the 6000 votes, across the 25 shortlisted projects, showing the huge public appetite for our park. Thank you to Suresh Singh for presenting the award and NLA for hosting.

1941 photo of the Middlesex Filter Beds, close to East London Waterworks Park 🏊🍃💚🍃🏊 #EastLondonWaterworksPark, looking east. Unrecognisable today, this was taken on the main path looking towards the central hub (as you enter the #MiddlesexFilterBeds #NatureReserve & turn to the right). #History #Lea

1901 view south from #LeaBridge, close to East London Waterworks Park 🏊🍃💚🍃🏊 #EastLondonWaterworksPark, on the Hackney Cut of the #RiverLee Navigation. Featuring (standing where the 'Nature's Throne' or '#Hackney Henge' artwork is now), The Victoria Engine House & its stand-pipe & chimney, built 1852

c.1920 watercolour by T. van Thijskheide, looking NE across the East London Waterworks Park 🏊🍃💚🍃🏊 #EastLondonWaterworksPark site from the old #RiverLea. The Prince and Princess Boiler Houses and the Triples Boiler Houses, that are depicted in this painting, still remain today. #History #Art