Well I beat you all last week again, can I do the same to make it 2 weeks on the trot?. So for fun competition Number 14, can you recognise this one?
If you think you know where it is, you can contact us via our comments links, by e-mail to: mwm.sundial@yahoo.co.uk, by filling in the form below, or by using any of the links to our blog. This quiz might only be for fun, but I think I’ve got you again this week! We’ll give you the answer on Thursday. Good Luck
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Well did you solve it?You beat me the last 2 weeks.
The photo you had to identify was:
It was, of course, the ClockTower of the old Trumans Brewery,located in Brick Lane E1. And no-one got it! A more familiar view is shown here:
The next fun ‘Where is it?’ photo will follow tomorrow. Good luck.
The Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green will be running at least two great projects for kids from 27th to the 31st May.
The first one is helping children make Laser-Beam Art in a workshop called Eye Spy Art. They can also make finger-print characters. This group will be on 27th, 29th and 31st May only. Admission will be £5, and advanced booking is recommended.
The second group is to learn and be coached in the game of Chess. Children must be 6 years of age to participate in this group. This group will be on the 28th and 30th May only, from 10.30am to 1pm and from 2-4.30pm. Advanced booking is advised.
To contact the museum, follow this link.
Many of you will have ridden on a First Essex bus at some time or another, but the new vehile they help finance you would only want to ride in an emergency, and then you would be glad they were there.
The FirstGroup, parent of First Essex have just committed themselves to provide £100,000 over four years to the London Air Ambulance Service. We have previously written articles chronicalling the great work done by the air ambulance (such as in this link), so we now say well done to FirstGroup. Well done.
The London Police Cadets have an urgent need! They need another 400 adult leaders.
Applicants must be aged 18 to 25.
Cadet Leaders help train and support Cadets, and attend functions such as Trooping Of The Colour and Rememberance Day. They also help their Cadets to achieve the best possible standards in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award scheme, as well as attending holiday camps.
If you think you would like to find out more, then just follow this link.
The total amount donated towards the British Legion’s Poppy Appeal in November 2012 by Tower Hamlets collectors was……£100,000.
Well done to all who gave so generously to such a good cause.
For more information on the Poppy Appeal, follow this link.
As well as the usual bunch of leaflet distributors outside the Chrisp Street Poplar Idea Store on this Saturday (18th May), there will be members of the Tower Hamlets Benefit Justice Campaign, handing out their literature.
For further information on the campaign, just follow this link, or just go along and meet them.
The local archive storage and retrieval centre has reopened in it’s newly refurbished building in Bancroft Library in Bancroft Road, which has been closed for a while to enable the refurbishment to take place.
For further information follow this link.
Or Telephone: 020 7364 1290
Or e-mail: localhistory@towerhamlets.gov.uk
Rumour is spreading that News International, one of the largest newspaper groups, who publish and print the Sun, the Times and the Sunday Times amongst others, and are currently based in Thomas More Square in Wapping, are about to lift-and-shift to new offices in the London Bridge area. Come on guys – you know as we do that East-End is best!
The borough of Tower Hamlets is aiming to find at least 25 new foster parents as soon as possible. The largest shortfall is within the white community, although foster parents from all communities are required to assist children to be placed within their own ethnic group.
If you feel that you would like to help a child through a hard time in their lives, you should call: 0800027909850, or follow this link.
