Friends of Abbey Gardens

Roberts Roger’s response to Nina’s research on the old Corporation stables at the Bridge Road Depot.

“Nina I saw in your blog about the Corporation stables at Bridge Road Depot, thought you might like to see a photo of them. They were demolished when the depot was rebuilt in the early 1980`s.

Although I have not been here long enough to have remembered the horse and carts, I can remember the stables which were used for storage, but the old ring to tie the horses up where still in place.

Amongst the building in the distance can be seen the Adam & Eve Pub.

Thanks to Pat in our depot who had this photo in her collection and allowed me to get it scanned (by our directors PA Jan), so a kind of joint effort!

‘A little line drawing of how the stables may have looked, there is a certain amount of `Artistic Licence` as I only had the one photo and it was not that sharp.’

A link to Nina and Karen’s blog and the entry about ‘Strucutral Holes‘
Also check the somewhere.org ‘abbey gardens blog‘ and their ‘abbey gardens images on flicker‘.

Gordon and Louise from the West Ham Alltoment Society organised a walk across the area. Nina joint and kindly detoured them to Bakers Row. While at Abbey Gardens we ran into Dean who owns the flower shop outside Stratford Station and is looking for a site to have a stable and 10 Horses. He has been keeping a keen eye on the site and just moved in up the road. Also joining the walk was Lucy Harrison who is working on an arts commission for Platform for Art and is in the mids of putting a local newspaper together as well as Chris from the Newham Striders. All in a days walk …

See also Nina’s Structural Hole entry on the somewhere blog