Balloons launched from London usually floated on a westerly winds over Essex.
Skilled areonauts often descended locally to avoid going into the sea so hot air balloons often came down in Havering. This photograph is from 1909.

Our ground maintenance crews have been out across the borough again this week, cutting grass to keep #Havering looking neat & tidy orlo.uk/5BLjd

💚Grenfell Park, #Romford this Saturday, come and get involved - do what we do best together, with lunch & refreshments provided! 💚 let me know if you can make it, please don’t just turn up as I need numbers☺️ #Community #MayorsCommunityWeekend #LondonStrongerTogether #Havering

8 inc new rider Alison for our hot ride to Ongar earlier. Forecast said high of 31° so took a shady route to KG Coffee and a takeaway in the shade across the road. 2 went on to Abbess Roding, the rest went home into a cooling headwind.

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The HES Brokerage Team, in collaboration with the Safeguarding Team, has negotiated a great deal with Optimus Education (part of Shaw Trust) for a Safeguarding Leadership Programme!

You'll enhance your school safeguarding efforts with 2 conferences, 3 digital training sessions led by Ella Savell-Boss

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📢 Calling all Paediatric Speech & Language Therapists!

We’re hiring within our Neurodevelopmental Service, supporting young people across various ages. You’ll join our teams based in either Barking & Dagenham, Havering, or Redbridge.

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Upcoming training with places still available!
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A quick coffee after a busy early turn!

As a team we have responded to mental
Health crisis’s, domestic incidents, road traffic collisions, intruder alarms, welfare checks, and a 10 year old who was missing from school, reunited safe with her parents!

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#Hornchurch were amazing today. Plenty of volunteers and energy even with the sun!😆 Stream cleared of litter and flytips, native flowers planted in the woodland #environment #community #mayorscommunityweekend #tnlcommunityfund Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan The National Lottery Community Fund

Yesterday we received 118 emergency calls across Barking & Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge consisting of welfare concerns, burglaries, robberies, domestic assaults, car crime, missing persons and more.

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We’ve had a fab day out over Grenfell Park/The Chase in Romford. Lots of Himalayan Basalm taken out, native species planted in, and lots of rubbish taken out of our River Rom. Onto Hornchurch tomorrow! #mayorscommunityweekend #tnlcommunityfund #londonstrongertogether #volunteer

Twice as many journeys in outer London are by car than in inner London – and over half of car journeys in outer London are less than 2 miles long.

We need to give the millions of people living in outer London better transport options. Our research: centreforlondon.org/publication/su…

Havering CTC group ride Sunday 2nd July. Short easy paced ride of 30 Miles or less, destination decided on the day. Meet- 8:45 for 9am start outside Roomes (Fashion and Home) store, 41-49 Station Road, Upminster, RM14 2SX

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'Over half of car trips in outer London are less than two miles long'

That's very roughly a 40 minute walk (left) or 15 minute cycle (right).

This is why we're getting congestion, but also a symptom of how poor our streets are for walking and wheeling, but especially cycling.

Mayor of Havering opens a new phone shop in Hornchurch ✂️

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Joel Ashton 🍃🌳🍃 Havering Council Would love some biodiversity education over in #Havering - unfortunately the tidy brigade shout the loudest here. If you’re ever in the area please get in touch - from a local community group trying to make change 💚

Congratulations HES!

Our FREE boxing sessions are back. See flyer to sign up 🥊 Barking and Dagenham LocalCrimeBeats Essex Crime & Surrounding Areas. The Havering Daily