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East London Golf Club is a highly regarded championship golf course. Some of the other golf clubs in the region are the West Bank Golf Club, Gonubie Golf Club, Olivewood Golf Estate and Fish River Sun Country Club (a Gary Player-designed golf course). East London has also hosted the Africa Open tournament multiple times.
The original part of Queen's Park was donated to the inhabitants at East London in about 1880 by Mr Gately for use as a public park. This park is of particular botanical interest. 9/2/026/0013 Cuthbert's Building, 110 Oxford Street, East London Three storied plus rooms in roof space. Plastered brickwork structural iron framing with wood floors.
East London Museum is a museum in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa, notable for holding the type specimen of the coelacanth, a fish previously believed to be long extinct. It was the workplace of Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer , the fish's discoverer.
Leyton (/ ˈ l eɪ t ən / LAY-tən) is a town in East London, England, within the London Borough of Waltham Forest.It borders Walthamstow to the north, Leytonstone to the east, and Stratford to the south, with Clapton, Hackney Wick and Homerton, across the River Lea, to the west.
Dorset Street, Spitalfields, photographed in 1902 for Jack London's book The People of the Abyss. The East End of London, often referred to within the London area simply as the East End, is the historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London and north of the River Thames.
The London Government Act 1899 abolished the vestries and district boards within the County of London, replacing them with twenty-eight metropolitan boroughs. On 1 November 1900 Glasshouse Yard became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury which also consisted of the parishes of Charterhouse , Clerkenwell , St Luke and St Sepulchre . [ 21 ]
Custom House is an area in the London Borough of Newham, in East London, England.. The area is named after the custom house of Royal Victoria Dock.Today the dock is used for recreation but, in the past, it dominated the industry and commerce of the area from 1855 until the 1940s before closing in 1980.
The etymology of London is uncertain, but is known to be an ancient name. [1] The concept of East London as a distinct area is a relatively recent innovation. John Strype's map of 1720 describes London as consisting of four parts: The City of London, Westminster, Southwark and That Part Beyond the Tower. [2]