Possibly a challenge or homage to the stupendous Edwardian East Ham Town Hall which is close by. Here, however, he stuck to respectable classical with a tall corner tower looking down on East Ham’s High Street. The design was by the CWS chief London architect, Leonard Ekins, who would go on to design some unusual Dutch-style brick offices in the 1930s. Anyway, what has this urn to do with the co-op? Four of them stand in East Ham Park, a little way from the site of the 1928 London Co-operative Society department store which was quite the latest thing when built, with huge plate glass windows. All around as I write is permafrost, so here’s a little sunshine from a few months ago to remind us that spring is, er, just around the corner.
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