THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
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The River Lea : Voyage from Bromley to Waltham Abbey,
Saturday, June 29TH, 1895.
Conductors—Major Lamorock Flower, F.S.I., F.R. Met. S. (Sanitary Engineer,
Lee Conservancy Board) ; Mr. Walter Crouch, F.Z.S. ; Colonel Bryan
(Engineer to the East London Waterworks Company); and Mr. W. COLE,
Hon. Secretary.
The Lee Conservancy Board having again kindly lent their steam barge,
"The Salisbury," to the Club, it was decided on this day to complete the tour
of the River Lea, commenced last year (14th July, 1894), when the journey was
begun above the water companies' intakes, clown stream from Hertford (see full
report in Essex Naturalist, vol. viii., pp. 205-213 ; and papers on "Izaak
Mouth of the Lea, at Blackwall.
(Drawn August, 1890.)
Walton's Association with the River Lea," by Mr. Harting, vol. viii., pp. 186-198 ;
and the "Geology of the Lea Valley," by Mr. T. V. Holmes, vol. viii., pp. 198-201)
On the present occasion, it was determined to commence at the lower end of the
river, and work up stream to Waltham, a distance of about fourteen miles.1
As last year, the pictures which adorned the very handsome quarto pro-
gramme of the meeting were drawn from nature at the spots named, by
Mr. H. A. Cole, and presented by him to the Club.
The "Salisbury" was moored at Bromley Locks, close to the head of Lime-
house Cut, by which the River Lea passes into the Thames at Blackwall. The
1 We have always printed the word Lea with an "a" in our publications, as being probably
the correct mode, but in all Acts of Parliament and printed documents of the Lee Conservancy
it is printed thus. Public bodies seem to have an objection to the use of the first letter of the
alphabet—the Epping Forest Committee will spell High Beach with the double e—ignoring the
evidence of the old direction-posts and maps.—Ed.