Frank Creber

East End London: The Road to the 2012 Olympics

There are many blogs based in the East End which concern themselves about the current developments and future.

In this article by John Stiles asks:-

With the London 2012 Olympics fast approaching how will an impoverished East End cope with world attention?

please check out the full article at suite101.com

He points to the “New and Revitalized”

‘The modern east end is a place in transition and while steeped in its own traditions of haberdashery shops, hardworking immigrant families, cockney slang, betting agents and pie and mash shops it is also embracing the reality of a major infrastructure overhaul by the government and private enterprise in the form of the Olympic site and in the form of an upgraded overland transportation system with bigger and better links to London and, in stifling summer heat, a much needed first: air conditioned trains…..’

‘new Literature festivals are popping up in adjacent areas such as Stoke Newington, where a young Edgar Allen Poe went to school as a child, and in Leytonstone itself where the Walthamstow Literature Festival will take place in May. As the Olympics comes closer to a reality the area is sending out the message: Transformation is taking place slowly.’

John Stiles

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There are many blogs based in the East End which concern themselves about the current developments and possible futures:-

here are some that I follow:-

Guardian Writer Dave Hill’s Hackney Diary

http://davehill.typepad.com/claptonian/

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With a wider remit, the Londonist is a website about London and everything that happens in it. That means news, reviews and events; the history and future of London.

http://londonist.com/

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The Hackney Citizen is a free, independent community newspaper.

Written and run by residents of the borough, it seeks to champion investigative and citizen journalism. It also features contributions from local freelance journalists.

http://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/

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Lots of great articles about the neighbourhood I live in:-

http://eastlondonlocal.wordpress.com/

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a brilliant blog with many unusual and surprising facts about London written by a pigeon:-

http://londonpeculiar.blogspot.com/

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I will keep adding to this list

I took the photograph above of Three Mills while out drawing along the canal paths