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Coordinates: 51°31′05″N 0°01′16″W / 51.518010°N 0.021093°W / 51.518010; -0.021093
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Bow Common
Regent's Canal, Bow Common
Bow Common is located in Greater London
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51°31′05″N 0°01′16″W / 51.518010°N 0.021093°W / 51.518010; -0.021093

Bow Common is a district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London. The area takes its name from a common that lay off Bow Common Lane, and which survived until the mid-nineteenth century. It includes the southern housing estates of Burdett Estate,[1] and Lincoln Estate.

History

Bow Common was an industrial district producing and supplying London's town gas demands – the former Victorian Gas works site at Bow Common[2] is one of a few remaining following the surrounding area's ongoing transformation. In 1883 anti-poverty campaigner Andrew Mearns commented on the lack of church attendance amongst locals, and Charles Booth described it as 'worse than almost any district in London.'[2] Slums were cleared during the course of the 20th century, most hastened by bomb damage in the Second World War when Bow was targeted for it being an important artery to feed the demands of the city at that time.[2]

St Paul's Church was rebuilt in the fashionable 'new brutalism' style of 1960 (replacing one damaged in the war) and is now a Grade II* listed building.[2]

Contemporary

Broomfield Street in 1998, before regeneration.

The Spratt's Complex was redeveloped and split into studio workshops (live/work units) and sold by JJAK (Construction) Ltd for leaseholders to fit out.[3] The first building to be converted was Limehouse Cut, varying in size between 580 to 1,610 sq ft (54 to 150 m2). The building was featured in the Sunday Times in June 1986[4] and again in 1989.[3]

A new site for the local Irish Travellers community in 2008 was built within the Bow Triangle Business Park.[5] The old site was needed as part of Crossrail.[6]

Revival

St Paul's Way Trust School became a Foundation Trust School in March 2010. The Foundation Trust comprises Queen Mary, University of London, King's College London, University of East London, University of Warwick, Catlin Group Limited, London Borough of Tower Hamlets and Tower Hamlets NHS.[7] It had moved into a new building in January 2011,[8] and by March 2013 Ofsted described the school as outstanding in every category.[9] It commended the school for its “relentless pursuit of scholarship and excellence”.[9] This follows a sustained and rapid improvement in GCSE results that ranked the school amongst the 'most improved schools in England' for 3 consecutive years.[10]

The St Paul's Church was announced as the winner at a competition organised by the National Churches Trust.[11] A redevelopment of Watts Grove started in 2015 and was decked with rooftop solar energy panels, the first purpose-built low-cost rental housing scheme with its own sustainable source of electric power.[12] The St Paul’s Way Medical Centre in 2018 was rated outstanding for being well-led and effective, it was also marked as good for being safe, caring and responsive following a Care Quality Commission inspection,[13] Diffusion tubes to monitor air pollution were installed on St Paul's Way, by campaigners from the Reclaiming Streets.[14]

St Paul's Way where 1,000 people turned up to a street festival and promoted Clean Air Day to raise awareness about air pollution and was transformed into a garden filled with performers, dancers, games, cycling and skating including Grand Union Orchestra, Globe Town Drumworks, and Poplar’s Union and Spotlight.[15] The new St Paul’s Way Foundation School was opened in 2019 by Grahame Price, CEO of the University Schools Trust, which runs the school, the school will offer 390 primary and 30 nursery places and will open its sports hall for use by the local community.[16] Professor Cox and Baron Mawson opened a new £500,000 pharmacy that has a robot that gives out prescriptions at Lincoln Pharmacy. It has automatic smart dispensing robotics technology, which serves medication to patients and frees up staff for health advice. It is part of a project to modernise Bow Common.[17]

Transport

Bow Common has no connection to the London Underground, historically it did have a station on the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway called Burdett Road that opened on 11 September 1871 by the Great Eastern Railway who had leased it to the London and Blackwall Extension Railway (LBER) from 1866, with the demands placed on the railway system by the Second World War and bomb damage in December 1940 saw the station closed for a week for emergency repairs but further damage saw the station closed on 21 April 1941.[18][19]

References

  1. ^ https://www.poplarharca.co.uk/improvements/st-pauls-way-trust-school-expansion-and-burdett-estate-regeneration
  2. ^ a b c d Willey, Russ. Chambers London Gazetteer, p 53-4.
  3. ^ a b "Back to the workhouse". The Sunday Times. 19 February 1989.
  4. ^ The Sunday Times: 38. 29 June 1986. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ https://www.feredaypollard.com/projects/travelers-site-for-crossrail
  6. ^ https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jan/18/london-gypsies-counted-travellers-map-prejudice
  7. ^ "Pensions Committee" (PDF). Moderngov.towerhamlets.gov.uk. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  8. ^ "Bouygues UK – St. Paul's Way Trust School –". bouygues-uk.com. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  9. ^ a b "documents/ofsted/Ofsted_Report_March2013" (PDF). spwt.net. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  10. ^ "BBC News - Secondary league tables: Most improved GCSE results". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  11. ^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24856284
  12. ^ https://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/news/work-starts-on-east-end-s-watts-grove-housing-scheme-with-solar-panels-1-4175898
  13. ^ https://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/news/outstanding-rating-given-to-champion-st-paul-s-way-medical-centre-by-care-quality-commission-1-5396075
  14. ^ https://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/news/politics/the-tube-is-used-in-bow-to-monitor-air-pollution-in-st-paul-s-way-1-5530795
  15. ^ https://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/news/politics/st-paul-s-way-street-festival-1-6128892
  16. ^ https://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/news/education/st-paul-s-foundation-school-opens-in-st-paul-s-way-1-5763414
  17. ^ https://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/news/politics/brian-cox-opens-lincoln-parmacy-1-6179729
  18. ^ Connor, J E (1987). The Stepney Railway. Colchester, UK: Connor and Butler. p. 58. ISBN 0 947699 08 2.
  19. ^ Connor, J E; Phillips, Charles (August 1998). Fenchurch Street to Barking. Midhurst UK: Middleton Press. p. 58. ISBN 1 901706 20 6.
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