Thank you to everyone who came to the Shindig, it was very hot and fun. Here are some pictures to prove it!

Young handlers, winners and runners up, with their dogs Wapping Shindig 2018 Dog Show

Young handlers, winners and runners up, with their dogs Wapping Shindig 2018 Dog Show

Young handlers, winners and runners up, with their dogs Wapping Shindig 2018 Dog Show

Young handlers, winners and runners up, with their dogs Wapping Shindig 2018 Dog Show

Young handlers, winners and runners up, with their dogs Wapping Shindig 2018 Dog Show

With thanks to Vickie Flores for her lovely photos

Wapping Sumer Shindig 2018
Raffle Prizes

Lunch for 2 at Smith’s Fish Restaurant                                                                           Green 726

Meal for 2 at River View Chinese                                                                                     Yellow 380

£45 voucher towards a Haircut at Wapping Hair Image                                             Yellow 287
in Fitness First

£45 voucher towards a treatment at the Little Beauty Spot                                          Green 964
in Fitness First

Dinner for 2 and bottle of wine at the Town of Ramsgate                                             Green 704

5 x 1 month memberships with access to Semi-Private Group Classes                        Yellow 162, Green  314, Green 471, Green 163, Yellow 130
courtesy of the Sporting Club

Bottle of Champagne – courtesy of 3R Ltd                                                                         Yellow 262

Voucher for Skylight at Tobacco Dock, 1 bottle of Prosecco and game of Petanque  Yellow 11

Free dance class at RDA – Ruggieri Dance Academy.                                   Yellow 86, Green 596, Yellow 121, Yellow 304, Yellow 10, Green 730
You can choose between Adults or Kids dance classes x6

One term of free ballet lessons for children at                                                                     Green 833
Clerkenwell School of Ballet

Bike Ride around London for 4                                                                                               Yellow 190

Wapping Shindig A5 Flyer 2018

The Wapping Summer Shindig is on Wapping Green from 12-7pm.

A walk around Wapping will begin at 10.30 led by the great Ray Newton. Meet at the Turk’s Head Cafe, Green Bank E1W 2PA.

There’s also a dog show with lots of prizes to be won and a yoga class led by Farida from Fitness First from 5pm. So bring your mats!

Anyone interested in running a stall, get in touch on 0207 488 6801 or email turksheadcharity@gmail.com

Lots of activities and a great line up – do come!

Talk-Horwood’s Wapping

All invited to the History of Wapping Trust’s talk on Wapping before the docks and Horwood’s map. Refreshments available at the bar. Thursday May 24, 7-9pm, Raine’s House, Raines Street E1W 3RL, do come!

Tideway is to run a water pipe through the park from the Highway to its riverside site!

KEMPF – Information Sheet April 2018

This will take place on Wednesday May 23 at the Turk’s Head Cafe, 1 Green Bank from 6pm.

If anyone is interested in having a stall at the Shindig, would like to volunteer on the day or has ideas on how to improve the event, then do come along on Wednesday May 23. If you are unable to make the meeting, then get in touch on 0207 488 6801 or email turksheadcharity@gmail.com

The Wapping Summer Shindig  is on Saturday July 7 from 12-7pm.

Here are the designs for the vent pipes at Shadwell Park. Tideway will submit its planning application to Tower Hamlets Council in the summer as it needs planning consent for the pipes to be erected. The designs are not to scale and the main 2, as shown in the first slide will be 30 feet high. Another 3 will also be built.

KEMPF CLWG slides March 18 (dragged)

KEMPF CLWG slides March 18

The History of Wapping Trust is running a film show on Thursday March 22 about the anniversary of the Festival of Britain
at Raines House, Raine St.
Film will be followed by a talk given by Ray Newton.

All welcome, from 7pm.

Film show Festival of Britain

In October last year the Turk’s Head and Shadwell Basin hosted a planning weekend at Shadwell Basin to seek local residents’ views on Tower Hamlets Council’s plans for Shadwell Park (King Edward Memorial Park) following the completion, in 2022, of the Thames Tideway works.

The results of that meeting can be seen in the report below and reached markedly different conclusions to those presented by Tower Hamlets. Both plans  can be seen in the report. Whilst walking around the park, it also became apparent that the air vent leading down to the Rotherhithe Tunnel was negatively affecting the air quality of the park, in addition to the pollution coming from the Highway which runs along its northern boundary. The Turk’s Head has contacted Transport for London, which owns the air vent and the Mayor of London with our concerns.
As you can see from the correspondence, air monitoring seems to be a lengthy process and until then, our charity advises not to use the park and join our campaign to get it cleaned up.

We are asking people to write to the Mayor of London to ask him to pressurise TfL to treat the air vent and stop polluting the park.
mayor@london.gov.uk

We are asking that people write to the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, John Biggs to make sure that air quality around the vent is monitored properly and exceedances of EU limits for nitrogen dioxide be published.
john.biggs@towerhamlets.gov.uk

Tower Hamlets Council KEMP_masterplan_report (1)

Shadwell Park Community Planning Weekend_2017 10 15 Final session

Community plan for Shadwell Park

Masterplan map.jpg

Caution Poster-3170615_final_KEMP_masterplan_report_lores (1)

Correspondence with TfL and Mayor of London