For your information Parking to pest control, housing to hate crime turn to pages 14 & 15 Useful information The wild bunch News from the Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park APRIL in the Cemetery Park is a spectacular month for wild flowers in the woods. There are wonderful shows of primroses, cowslips and sweet violets, both in the park itself and along the Ackroyd Drive Greenlink. Our abundant bluebells have started to flower, and will carry on until early May. Bumblebees and butterflies love the flowers as much as people do. By no means are all our bluebells are blue. We have many pink and white ones too. If you look closely at our bluebells, you’ll notice big differences between the plants. This is because two very different species of bluebells grow commonly in London. English bluebells have narrow flowers, which are only on one side of the spike, which nods. They have blue pollen and are scented. Spanish bluebells have bigger, broader flowers round the upright spike, white pollen and no scent. The two species hybridise, as bees move pollen from one to the other, to produce plants with every combination of their differences. Sometimes a plant looks just like an English version, but has white pollen and no scent. We have a huge range of daffodil species and varieties in the Cemetery Park, chosen to give us a continuous presence from January to May. Gardeners often ask us about what to do about daffodils when flowering finishes. You can cut off the old flower heads but not the leaves; let them die down naturally, which will happen by early June. If leaves are taken off prematurely the bulb can’t build itself up for next year’s flowering and many plants will be ‘blind’, just producing leaves. April also brings many woodland flowers, such as dogs mercury, yellow archangel, goldilocks, moschatel, sweet woodruff, wild garlic and wood anemones. Intrigued? Come along and join the free guided walk at 2pm on Sunday, April 19 and see all this for yourself. Most woodland flowers come early in the year, before summer brings deep shade to the woodlands. Tree leaves are just now bursting from their buds and some are flowering now, including willows, cherries and sloes. Others, such as elms, hazels and yews, have finished flowering. Many are yet to come – ash, oak, rowan, hawthorn and sycamore among them. When trees leaf, most of them bring their leaves to full size quickly, within a week or so. But one tree doesn’t. This is the London plane, which is very common in our streets and parks. Its leaves expand very slowly and take five or six weeks to reach full size. Our staff and volunteers are busy with seasonal work, and with preparing for summer events. This year our annual spring/summer festival is being held on June 6. Each year it grows and so becomes better and better both for visitors and stall holders. We are taking bookings from stallholders now – craftspeople, small producers, fun and games, local organisations wanting to meet a new audience. Contact us on 8983 1277 or go to www.fothcp.org Some readers will have attended the very successful Shuffle Festival in the Cemetery Park last summer. Another is planned from July 24 to August 1. Find out more information at www.shufflefestival.com Join the woodland tour Join the free guided walk round Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park at 2pm on Sunday, April 19 and see woodland flowers such as dogs mercury, yellow archangel, goldilocks and moschatel. www.fothcp.org Chemist rota Pharmacists in Tower Hamlets with extended opening hours. E1 ABC Drug Stores, 12-14 Montague Street: Mon-Fri 9am-7pm, Sat 9am-5.30pm, Sun 10am-2.30pm. Beck & Sherman, 197 Whitechapel Road: Mon-Fri 9am-7pm, Sat 9am-5.30pm, bank holidays 11am-1pm. Sainsbury’s, The Albion Brewery: Mon-Fri 8.30am- 10pm, Sat 7.30am-10pm, Sun 11am-5pm. Chapel, 139 Cannon Street: Mon- Fri 9am-8pm, Sat 9am-6pm. E2 Fairdale, 360 Bethnal Green Road: Mon, Tues, Weds, Fri 9am-6.30pm, Thurs 9am-1pm, Sat 9am-6pm, bank holidays 11am-2pm. Florida, 307 Bethnal Green Road: Mon-Fri 9am-7pm, Sat 9am-6pm, bank holidays 11am-2pm. E3 Bell, 534 Roman Road: Mon-Sat 7am-11pm, Sun 10am-2pm. Forward, 648 Mile End Road: Mon-Fri 9am-7pm, Sat 9am- 6pm, Sun and bank holidays 10am-6pm. Green Light, St Andrew’s Health Centre, 2 Hannaford Walk: 8am-8pm, seven days a week, including bank holidays. Lincoln, 60 St Paul’s Way: Mon, Tues, Weds 8am-8pm, Thurs, Fri, 8am-8pm, Sat 9am-5pm. Tesco, Hancock Road: Mon 8am-10.30pm, Tues-Fri 6.30am-10.30pm, Sat 6.30am- 10pm, Sun 11am-4pm. E14 Boots, Unit 15, Jubilee Place: Mon-Fri 7am-midnight, Sat 9am-6pm, Sun 12pm-6pm. Britannia (Perimart), Asda Precinct, East Ferry Road: Mon- Sat 9am-8pm, Sun 11am-4pm, bank holidays 11am-6pm. Doctors Please ring your doctor’s surgery for an appointment, but if it’s the weekend or late at night, call 7377 7151 (only for people in Tower Hamlets who are registered with a doctor). To find a doctor, dentist or help to quit smoking call the health hotline on 7364 5016, Mon-Fri 8am-8pm and Sat 8am-4pm. Advice East London Parkinson’s Support Group For people with Parkinson’s disease and their carers. Meets third Weds each month, 11am- 12pm at John Scurr Community Centre, 1A Bekesbourne St, E14. 0844 225 3704/0808 800 0303 Family Information Service (FIS) The Family Information Service provides information for people from birth to age 19 including helping parents and carers find childcare, advice on tax credits and childcare vouchers. Open Mon-Fri, 8am-6pm. 30 Greatorex Street, E1. fis@towerhamlets.gov.uk 7364 6495 Alzheimer’s Society Tower Hamlets Advice and help for carers and people with dementia. Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm. Robinson Centre, Mile End Hospital, Bancroft Road, E1. 8121 5626 Tower Hamlets Advocacy Project Independent advocates for adults with learning disabilities. Mon-Fri, 9.30am-4.30pm. Gladstone Place, 1 Ewart Place, E3. 7364 2550/2199 Parents Advice Centre (PAC) Offers advice around special educational needs (SEN). 30 Greatorex Street, E1. Drop-in sessions every Tues & Fri, 9:30am-3.30pm. 364 6489 LinkAge Plus An initiative of the Department for Work and Pensions. Toynbee Hall is one of five centres that coordinates services and activities provided. Mon-Fri from 9am-5pm, dropin session for advice on benefits, pensions, employment and housing. Appointments necessary. Mon 9am-5pm, Bangladeshi group. Toynbee Hall, Commercial Street, E1 7392 2914 www.toynbeehall.org.uk Free Advice Benefits, housing, immigration. Bengali speakers, home visits to house-bound. Weds, 10.30am- 12.30pm, Island House, Roserton Street, E14. Thurs, 1-3pm, Splash, Will Crooks Estate, Poplar High Street, E14. 7987 9379 Skillsmatch Free advice on all aspects of employment including training, apprenticeships and job vacancies. Canary Wharf Recruitment & Training Centre, 55 Upper Bank Street, E14. 7364 3727 or email skillsmatch @towerhamlets.gov.uk Tower Hamlets National Childbirth Trust Offers support, information and friendship to parents and parents-to-be. Regular events. 07976 710964 or towerhamletsnct@yahoo.com www.nct.org.uk Breastfeeding Support Centres Mon 11am-1pm Wapping Children’s Centre, 15 Chandler St, E1.Weds 12.30-2.30pm, Collingwood Children’s Centre, Buckhurst St, E1. Fri 12.30- 2.30pm, Overland Children’s Centre, 60 Parnell Rd, E3. Sun 2-4pm Barkantine Birth Centre, 121 Westferry Rd, E14. 3594 2591 or 07961 609 626 Free home fire safety advice From the London Fire Brigade 08000 28 44 28 Careers advice Tower Hamlets Careers Service Careers advice for ages 13-19 (up to 25 SEN). Mon-Fri, 1pm-5pm. Appointments available. Careers Centre, 35 Bow Road, E3. 7364 1401 TH Lifelong Learning Mon-Thurs, 10am-4pm. Shadwell Centre, 455 The Highway, E1. Careers advice Support from Civic Enterprise Clubs Co-operative. Tues & Thurs, 1-4pm & 6-9pm Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, EC2. 07432 463343 Photo order form Copies of pictures published in East End Life taken by council photographers are available to readers. To request a copy, email eastendlife.news@towerhamlets.gov.uk and we can send it straight away. If you do not have access to email fill in this form and send it to Photos, East End Life, Town Hall, Mulberry Place, 5 Clove Crescent, Poplar, E14 2BG. This service does take longer. Name Address Issue no. Page no. 8 NEWS FROM TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL AND YOUR COMMUNITY 13 – 19 APRIL 2015
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