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Bow Named from the three narrow arches of Bow Bridge which stood until 1835. See Old Ford. The whole of this area was once Stratford Marsh. Various channels of the river Lea once meandered over it and over time a number of bridges spanned it. The music hall, Bow Palace (earlier known as the Eastern Empire), was in Bow Road near Bow church. Once owned by Fred Marlow, a theatre proprietor, when it was known as Marlow’s Bow Palace of Varieties. He was one of the first to employ and encourage Marie Lloyd. Bow Cemetery: Whilst it was known as Bow Cemetery the official name was The City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery. It is now called Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park. To confuse things even more it was also known as 'the ground'. Underfunded from the start, overburied by 1890 but still burying people into the 1960s, then the GLC tried to 'reclaim' the ground as a sports field by dumping tonnes of earth on top of the graves, this was stopped by local protests. (Thanks to Gill Denman for some of these details.)
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