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| | london history, tower hamlets, east end history, River Thames, River Lea, Queen Maud, Old Ford, Bow Bridge, cockney ... |
 | | Farmers and their wagons would struggle through the tidal river across the flooded marshes of Leyton and Strat-ford, and on to the haymarkets that ran along what is now the Bow and Mile End Road. |
 | | But so treacherous was the crossing that Maud, the Queen of England, almost lost her life in the attempt, in 1118. |
 | | And of course it's been the seat of the monarchy since Queen Victoria, Henry VIII, right back to William the Conqueror. |
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