Friday, 21 October 2011

Hope i am in! as I had already a blog .... anyway hope this works.
Sorry I missed yesterday's meeting let me know ...

Tuesday, 17 May 2011

Well Done and Thanks

Well, we did it. Great pics and great fun and thanks to all of you for being so good to work with. How are the essays?

When the dust settles don't forget we need to make a date to visit the old boys at the Island Trust and give them their copy.
Great pictures!

And Finally ...































And finally here we are at the exhibition ... setting it up etc...

Sunday, 15 May 2011

Some more psychogeography of Mudchute



Then I thought of this timeline



The whole area was once simply known as Stepney Marsh; the name Isle of Dogges first occurs in the Thamesis Descriptio of 1588, applied to a small island in the south-western part of the peninsula. The name is next applied to the Isle of Dogs Fam (originally known as Pomfret Manor) shown on a map of 1683. At the same time, the area was variously known as Isle of Dogs or the Blackwell levels. By 1855, it was incorporated within the parish of Poplar under the aegis of the Poplar Board of Works. This was incorporated into the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar on its formation in 1900 (thank you Wikipedia!)