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2622 28 MARCH 2010 THE COMMUNIT Y NEWSPAPER FOR TOWER HAMLETS PRODUCED BY YOUR COUNCILON this springtime stroll you ll en-counter a giant egg, a huge spider sweb, sea-faring galleons and exot-ic palm trees. And there s a chancetoo to meet a farm full of friendly animals. As you emerge from Whitechapel Tube sta-tion, you re immediately immersed in a bus-tle of fruit and vegetables, saucepans andsaris. Facing you is the Royal London Hos-pital (1), built in the 1750s to treat thesick merchant seamen and manufac-turing classes and now expanding intothe blue glass towers behind the orig-inal site. Edith Cavell, pioneer nurse andWorld War I heroine, worked here. Head left through the market and yousoon pass under the dazzlingblue and green glassc a n o p y o fWhitechapel IdeaStore (2). Next doorthe gold letter-ing of Mann,Enjoy the colourful crocuses and buddingdaffodils as Graham Barkerdiscoversthe historic streets, architecture andgreen spaces of Stepney on this month swalk.

26 THE COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER FOR TOWER HAMLETS PRODUCED BY YOUR COUNCIL 22 Ð 28 MARCH 2010 ON this springtime stroll youÕll en-counter a giant egg, a huge spiderÕs web, sea-faring galleons and exot-ic palm trees. And thereÕs a chance

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