On Saturday, Adjoa, Sam, and I continued our street surgeries with supporters, having also done one the previous Monday evening.
We spoke with residents in several streets near Abbey Road, visited the Community Gardens, admired the historic Abbey ruins, the plants being grown, and, of course, the bee section. I shared the local connection to the “Plaistow Landgrabbers” https://www.whatwilltheharvestbe.com/about/ and their motto, “What will the harvest be?”
We then stopped by Abbey Road DLR station, where a poster advises visitors that if they’re looking for the famous Beatles zebra crossing, they’re in the wrong part of London—a reminder of the time a tourist asked me about it there.
Later, Adjoa and I caught the tail end of a well-attended West Ham residents’ meeting on a proposal to plant trees in their street, chaired by my ward colleague Cllr John Whitworth. It was a lively but polite debate with strong views on both sides.
On my cycle home, I passed the Clapton FC game, which you can now watch from a distance along the pathway.
