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Sutton House Society
Presents
Reflections on the Lea, a talk by Laurie Elks (founder of the Lee Valley Association)
A personal view on the origins and development
of the Regional Park of the Lee Valley
At Sutton House on Thursday March 13th 2003 at 7.30 pm
All welcome - Free admittance
(collection in aid of the Rev. Bill Hurdman Memorial Fund for Sutton House)
Sutton House Society 2-4 Homerton High Street London E9 6JQ
Enquiries about ‘Reflections on the Lea’ to Mike Gray 020 8525 9672
In 1944, Professor Abercrombie in his famous Greater London Plan devised the Green Belt to: swathe London in countryside and the Lee Valley as a "Green Lung" a vast open space linking the slums of the East End with the open countryside truly "a Park Fit for Heroes".
20 years later, the Civic Trust published a pioneering blueprint for the Lee Valley. Its concept was to create a vast playground where working people - liberated by automation from the toil of long hours - could enjoy a range of amusements and organised sports.
The Civic Trust blueprint influenced the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority - which was established in 1967 - to a "bricks and mortar" approach to the development of the valley which was anathema to Professor Abercrombie's original concept.
Laurie Elks discusses how these concepts of leisure influenced the history of the Park; and the efforts of voluntary groups such as the Lee Valley Association to bring about a fundamental rethink about the uses and abuses of the Lee Valley
Sutton House Society 2-4 Homerton High Street London E9 6JQ
Enquiries about ‘Reflections on the Lea’ to Mike Gray 020 8525 9672
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