Next Weekend: Friday 29th July – Sunday 31st July 2011 pop down to Hackney Wicked festival - between Victoria Park and The River Lea Festival website
festival map
It is framed in an area bounded by Victoria Park, the River Lea, the A12 (fast road) and the Old Ford across the River Lea. And centred on Hackney Wick rail station.The south border is the Old Ford, the main river crossing from the Iron Age, Roman and medieval times afore queen Matilda almost drowned and had Bow Bridge built - to ease her route to Barking Abbey.
festival map
It is framed in an area bounded by Victoria Park, the River Lea, the A12 (fast road) and the Old Ford across the River Lea. And centred on Hackney Wick rail station.The south border is the Old Ford, the main river crossing from the Iron Age, Roman and medieval times afore queen Matilda almost drowned and had Bow Bridge built - to ease her route to Barking Abbey.
Oh and you might just have noticed the Olympics site on the opposite bank of the river (& cut)
Laura Oldfield Ford has a poster site at White Post Lane, her drawings are always stimulating for people interested in Landscapes and the world around them
AND, You can't get anything more appropriate than a Coracle Regatta for a festival on the site of the Iron Age river crossing on the main road between Camulodunum (Colchester) and Calleva (Calleda/Coed) Atrebatum (Silchester). Both were Pre-Roman towns and capitals of minor states. Even if the coracles start a we bit upstream of the crossing point.
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