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The A102 is a road that starts in Clapton in the the north London Borough of Hackney and ends in Charlton in the south London Borough of Greenwich. The A102 was formerly a continuous route including two motorway sections classified as the A102(M) but, due to the renumbering of part of the route in 1999, the A102 designation now applies to two unconnected sections separated by the A12 road. Upper Clapton is a place in the London Borough of Hackney. ...
Hackney Town Hall was built in the 1930s for the old Metropolitan Borough. ...
Charlton may refer to: Places Charlton was a village near Filton, Bristol in England but was demolished in order to extend the runway at Filton Airfield. ...
The London Borough of Greenwich is a London borough in southeast London, England. ...
1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Old Farts by the Sometimes-United Nations. ...
The A12 road is also a road in Belgium: Brussels-Boom-Antwerp The A12 is a major road in England, a trunk road for most of its length, running from London to Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. ...
Route
The A102 starts in Clapton at the junction of Lower Clapton Road and Urswick Road. It runs south along Urswick Road and continues east past 16th century Sutton House, East London's oldest house, and into Homerton High Street. It next turns south and runs along Kenworthy Road and then east into Wick Road for a short distance before the road designation ends at the A106 just to the west of the Hackney Wick interchange with the A12. The Millennium Dome, with the Canary Wharf complex in the background, seen from the River Thames Aerial view of the Millennium Dome The Millennium Dome, seen from the Isle of Dogs. ...
(15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ...
Sutton House, the oldest house in Hackney. ...
The Lee Navigation at Hackney Wick from the Eastway bridge, August 2005. ...
Previously the A102 continued through this junction passing under the East Cross Route flyover and joined the southbound East Cross Route where it was designated the A102(M) motorway as far as the south side of the grade separated Old Ford interchange. Here the designation reverted to the A102 along the southbound Blackwall Tunnel Northern Approach, under the triple-deck Bow interchange with the A11 and on towards East India Dock Road (A13) and the Blackwall Tunnel. When the A12 extension was opened through Wanstead, Leytonstone and Leyton to meet the north end of the East Cross Route at the Lea Interchange, the A102(M) and the A102 as far south as the A13 were renumbered A12. East Cross Route (ECR) was the designation for the eastern section of Ringway 1, the innermost circuit of the London Ringways network, a complex and comprehensive plan for a network of high speed roads circling and radiating out from central London designed to manage and control the flow of traffic...
Motorway symbol in UK, France and Ireland. ...
An example of a four-level stack interchange in the Netherlands. ...
Old Ford is also an area of Bow, London named after a crossing of the River Lee. ...
The Blackwall Tunnel is the name given to a pair of road tunnels underneath the River Thames in east London, linking the London Borough of Greenwich with the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ...
Bow, historically Stratford-le-Bow [1], is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ...
The A11 is a major road in England. ...
The A13 is a trunk road in England linking the City of London with East London and south Essex. ...
Wanstead is a place in the London Borough of Redbridge. ...
Leytonstone is a place within the London Borough of Waltham Forest. ...
Leyton is a town in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. ...
South of the A12/A13 interchange with the adjacent landmark Ernő Goldfinger designed Balfron Tower, the designation of the Blackwall Tunnel Approach reverts back to the A102 through the Blackwall Tunnels and under the River Thames to Greenwich. The road continues south-east as Blackwall Tunnel Southern Approach with flyovers over Blackwall Lane (A2203) and Woolwich Road (A206) before it heads south and climbs the hill to the Sun-in-the-Sands interchange with Shooters Hill Road (A2/A207) where it ends a short distance to the south of the junction as the road becomes the A2 road which joins from the roundabout above. ErnÅ‘ Goldfinger (November 11, 1902 - November 15, 1987) was a Hungarian born architect and designer of furniture, and a key member of the architectural Modern Movement after he had moved to the United Kingdom. ...
Balfron Tower Balfron Tower is a multi-story housing block in the Poplar district of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ...
The Thames (pronounced []) is a river flowing through southern England, in its lower reaches flowing through London into the sea. ...
The A2 is a major road in the United Kingdom, connecting London with the English Channel port of Dover in Kent. ...
Prior to 1999, the A102 from the A2203 flyover to the A2 was designated as a second section of A102(M) motorway. 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Old Farts by the Sometimes-United Nations. ...
History The A102 south of Old Ford, the southbound Blackwall Tunnel and the two sections of the A102(M) were all constructed in the mid and late 1960s as part of the East Cross Route which was intended to be the eastern section of the London Motorway Box; an ambitious, controversial and, ultimately, unbuilt Greater London Council plan to surround London with high speed roads to channel traffic away from the congested central area. The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ...
East Cross Route (ECR) was the designation for the eastern section of Ringway 1, the innermost circuit of the London Ringways network, a complex and comprehensive plan for a network of high speed roads circling and radiating out from central London designed to manage and control the flow of traffic...
Arms of the Greater London Council The Greater London Council (GLC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to 1986. ...
External link - www.sabre-roads.org.uk - A102
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