Moorhen chick rescue on Wapping canal
High drama on Wapping canal last night as a local resident rescued three moorhen chicks.Many of us enjoy looking at the wildlife on Wapping canal as we walk to and from work. Local resident Peter was...
View ArticleRotherhithe foxes in pictures
If you are looking for wildlife I suggest you have a wander around the old docks area of Southwark. On my way to photograph Great Crested Grebes nesting at Greenland Dock I found these foxes having a...
View ArticleWapping cygnets learning to fly on the canal
In recent days the five Wapping cygnets have started learning to fly. Every day for the last few weeks our crack only Love Wapping camera crew has been aimlessly patrolling up and down the canal hoping...
View ArticleWapping cygnets flying higher and higher
The Wapping cygnets are flying higher and higher along and above the canal. But some are still having slight problems judging distance.The photos below show a take-off run towards Vaughan Way bridge –...
View ArticleTrees felled for London Dock HGVs
It has been a disastrous few days for the green lungs of East London. First the news that King Edward Memorial Park is going to be trashed by the Thames Water suits and today the Vaughan Way trees...
View ArticleHey Tanya Downs – this photo is just for you
Walking through Wapping Gardens today LW met Tanya’s father Gerald just by the bench which is now immersed in floral tributes – with some choice comments on the cards! – for our friend Tanya.Tanya’s...
View ArticleColin the Cormorant lunching in Wapping canal (photos)
While we may only have one cygnet we always have Colin the Cormorant who has been displaying his amazing fishing skills in Wapping canal recently. The photographs below were taken on two separate days...
View ArticleGoose annoys swan, swan chases goose (photos)
The Wapping swans may only have the one cygnet this year but they protect their territory with the same resolution as ever. This afternoon one of our visiting geese made the mistake of enjoying a slow...
View ArticleCute coot chick catastrophe averted by LW Rangers
Drama on Limehouse Basin Marina today as our entire team of LW Wildlife Rangers (Marine Division) were deployed to build a floating coot nest and save two new born coot chicks from drowning.Although...
View ArticleBugger Brexit – here are some nice borough bollards
It seems that every conversation today is about the Brexit crisis – so prompted by the work of Tower Hamlets History Archive who are tweeting photos of digitised film photos of bollards we thought we...
View ArticleA night walk through peaceful Wapping
As a balance to some of the stories we have been running recently our weekly editorial meeting decided to just write about something normal.So we sent the LW Normal Things (So Normal As To Be Almost...
View ArticleMr Burns gets his (Tesco) sprats
The entire Love Wapping management and editorial team wish to apologise for this week’s excess of heavy duty electoral corruption stories and make amends by bringing you some photographs of one of our...
View ArticleGreat Crested Grebes nesting on Shadwell Basin – photo story
A pair of Great Crested Grebes are nesting and mating on the south side of Shadwell Basin. Grebes are fantastic birds to watch but seem to be hopeless nest builders as our Wildlife Rangers have...
View ArticlePost-blitz Wapping – 1948 photos show our community rebuilding after Second...
A series of photographs capturing Wapping as it rebuilt after the Second World War entitled 1948:Docklands before 'Docklands' has been published. The post Post-blitz Wapping – 1948 photos show our...
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