Photo from run on Sunday (stylised). The Lake was named after the wife of King Edward VII and dug in 1905/06 to improve drainage and provide work for "unemployed men under the control of the West Ham Distress Committee".
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We always knew it as the sand hills
Yes and I read somewhere they used to be much higher but were used to fill sandbags during the second world war. Not sure if true
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