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Walthamstow Wetlands Design Exhibition
There will be a public exhibition of the designs for Walthamstow Wetlands at The Mill (Coppermill Lane) on Saturday, 13th July, 2013.
Walthamstow Wetlands is a £6.5m project to open up the largest purpose-built water body in London to the public. The project has been developed by the London Wildlife Trust and the Walthamstow Wetlands Partnership, led by the reservoir owners Thames Water and Waltham Forest Council. More details can be found at the London Wildlife Trust.
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A fascinating area. The London Wildlife Trust site is well worth a look.
Starting with the listed Copper Mill on Coppermill Lane we get a fascinating history through this building alone, with earliest mention made as far back as 1066;
Used for milling corn, then on through the centuries to mill/produce paper, gunpowder (English Civil War 1642-1652), leather from 1703, then linseed oil. Welsh based British Copper Company purchased the mill in 1808 for rolling out copper ingots into sheets. Copper was brought to the mill from Swansea by barge via the River Lea and Coppermill Stream.
In 1859 the old mill and the rights to the waters were bought by the East London Waterworks Company, who converted it into a pumping station. It currently serves as an operational hub (used partly for storage and partly as a centre for Health and Safety and confined space training).
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Over at Heron Island the London Wildlife Trust says, 'As if the herons weren't enough, their raucous community accommodates an altogether more delicate and exotic relative. Little egrets - ghostly white, and yet surprisingly easy to miss amongst the massed ranks of their larger cousins - are a true speciality of the reservoirs, which proudly host the first and only breeding colony in Greater London.'
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