Local walker Chris Crook talks about the Greenway. The Newham Striders and Ramblers walk group are an urban walking scheme offering walks for residents, adults with learning difficulties and visitors.  They aim to provide a social, enjoyable opportunity for individuals to improve health and fitness levels. The walks take place in and around Newham with the majority in local parks.  The Saturday walk is aimed at the more experienced walkers or people who want to progress to a longer more challenging walk.

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Location 1, South Access, Greenway East: Track 1

"Ballad of the Newham Striders" by Jane Grell. The Newham Striders and Ramblers walk group are an urban walking scheme offering walks for residents, adults with learning difficulties and visitors.  They aim to provide a social, enjoyable opportunity for individuals to improve health and fitness levels. The walks take place in and around Newham with the majority in local parks.  The Saturday walk is aimed at the more experienced walkers or people who want to progress to a longer more challenging walk.

Location 1, South Access, Greenway East: Track 2

The Right Side of Stratford, by the ACT Stratford volunteer group. Taking you away from the Olympic site and the attendant new developments, this tour by local residents takes you to the Right Side of Stratford, introducing you to east London's costermongers and market traders. Architectural, industrial and entertainment history comes to the fore as locals enthuse about the area at the Stratford Community Festival.

Location 2, Stratford City Approach: Track 1

Stratford Voices, recorded at the Stratford Community Festival 2011. Taking you away from the Olympic site and the attendant new developments, this tour by local residents takes you to the Right Side of Stratford, introducing you to east London's costermongers and market traders. Architectural, industrial and entertainment history comes to the fore as locals enthuse about the area at the Stratford Community Festival.

Location 2, Stratford City Approach: Track 2

The Coming by Gillian Lawrence. Local resident Gillian Lawrence returns from an Olympic Park tour to lyricise her view of locals' reactions to the Olympic site rising in their neighbourhood, while Theatre Royal Stratford East volunteer Augustina Unokiwedi Damascus plays a song inspired by her Nigerian heritage. Once the Games are over the site will revert to local use, creating a new corner of east London that mixes the urban with the green.

Location 3, Olympic Village Approach: Track 1

Music by Augustina Unokiwedi Damasus. Local resident Gillian Lawrence returns from an Olympic Park tour to lyricise her view of locals' reactions to the Olympic site rising in their neighbourhood, while Theatre Royal Stratford East volunteer Augustina Unokiwedi Damascus plays a song inspired by her Nigerian heritage. Once the Games are over the site will revert to local use, creating a new corner of east London that mixes the urban with the green.

Location 3, Olympic Village Approach: Track 2

Songs by members of Eton Manor Association, recorded in 2011: "Eton Boys"; "Down on the Wilderness"; Side by Side". Gareth Rees of the Marshman Chronicles website takes you on the kind of walk that he shares with his dog Hendrix every day. Taking in industrial dereliction and artistic creation, Rees' atmospheric talk conjures up a picture of life on the edges of the urban fabric, where wildlife and humans on the fringes mix. Members of the Eton Manor Association provide a musical backing, with songs once sung on the site of the Eton Manor Boys Club, a club founded in the area by Old Etonians.

Location 4, Eton Manor Approach: Track 1

A walk with Gareth Rees of the Marshman Chronicles. Gareth Rees of the Marshman Chronicles website takes you on the kind of walk that he shares with his dog Hendrix every day. Taking in industrial dereliction and artistic creation, Rees' atmospheric talk conjures up a picture of life on the edges of the urban fabric, where wildlife and humans on the fringes mix. Members of the Eton Manor Association provide a musical backing, with songs once sung on the site of the Eton Manor Boys Club, a club founded in the area by Old Etonians.

Location 4, Eton Manor Approach: Track 2

Oxtail: a cookery session with the Good Companions. a group who meet on the Kingsmead Estate in Hackney. Developed with artist Michael Needham. The Kingsmead Estate lies beyond the Hackney Marshes and is home to the Kabin, where the Good Companions, an over-50s association, meets on a weekly basis. Here, they explain the art of making Oxtail, which is a slow-cooking ritual that is as much about sourcing good ingredients as it is getting the lengthy cooking process right. While the food cooks you can learn about the Hackney Speedway and the stadium that now sits beneath the Olympic site.

Location 5, Waterden Road Approach: Track 1

Speedway by Robert Rogers. The Kingsmead Estate lies beyond the Hackney Marshes and is home to the Kabin, where the Good Companions, an over-50s association, meets on a weekly basis. Here, they explain the art of making Oxtail, which is a slow-cooking ritual that is as much about sourcing good ingredients as it is getting the lengthy cooking process right. While the food cooks you can learn about the Hackney Speedway and the stadium that now sits beneath the Olympic site.

Location 5, Waterden Road Approach: Track 2

Dear Old Hackney Wick & Five Old Etonians, by members of the Eton Manor Association, recorded in 2011. Printworks, artworks and raves: Sitting in the shadow of the Olympic site, Hackney Wick is a kind of no man's land where residential streets and industrial works mix with artists' studios as well as empty warehouses and raves. Fred Spencer takes you on a historic tour of the Eton Manor clubhouse, and we learn about the eerie world that artists inhabit in the Wick. Dear Old Hackney Wick from the Eton Manor Association shows the pride the area once evoked.

Location 6, Hackney Wick Approach: Track 1

Local artist Abigail Thomas talks about having a studio in Hackney Wick. Printworks, artworks and raves: Sitting in the shadow of the Olympic site, Hackney Wick is a kind of no man's land where residential streets and industrial works mix with artists' studios as well as empty warehouses and raves. Fred Spencer takes you on a historic tour of the Eton Manor clubhouse, and we learn about the eerie world that artists inhabit in the Wick. Dear Old Hackney Wick from the Eton Manor Association shows the pride the area once evoked.

Location 6, Hackney Wick Approach: Track 2

Riseholme Street, by Fred Spencer, secretary of the Eton Manor Association. Printworks, artworks and raves: Sitting in the shadow of the Olympic site, Hackney Wick is a kind of no man's land where residential streets and industrial works mix with artists' studios as well as empty warehouses and raves. Fred Spencer takes you on a historic tour of the Eton Manor clubhouse, and we learn about the eerie world that artists inhabit in the Wick. Dear Old Hackney Wick from the Eton Manor Association shows the pride the area once evoked.

Location 6, Hackney Wick Approach: Track 3

A recording of Quadroprint printers in Hamlet Industrial Centre. Printworks, artworks and raves: Sitting in the shadow of the Olympic site, Hackney Wick is a kind of no man's land where residential streets and industrial works mix with artists' studios as well as empty warehouses and raves. Fred Spencer takes you on a historic tour of the Eton Manor clubhouse, and we learn about the eerie world that artists inhabit in the Wick. Dear Old Hackney Wick from the Eton Manor Association shows the pride the area once evoked.

Location 6, Hackney Wick Approach: Track 4

An extract from Imagine you are Everyone by Stewart Melton, recorded in the Yard Theatre, Queens Yard, E9 in 2011. Printworks, artworks and raves: Sitting in the shadow of the Olympic site, Hackney Wick is a kind of no man's land where residential streets and industrial works mix with artists' studios as well as empty warehouses and raves. Fred Spencer takes you on a historic tour of the Eton Manor clubhouse, and we learn about the eerie world that artists inhabit in the Wick. Dear Old Hackney Wick from the Eton Manor Association shows the pride the area once evoked.

Location 6, Hackney Wick Approach: Track 5

Mapping Your Manor was a project conceived by Lucy Harrison in 2011, in response to Ackroyd and Harvey's Mapping the Park art commission. The project consists of audio files recorded with community groups in East London. The soundtracks are intended to be used while walking around and through the Olympic Park, although they can also be enjoyed elsewhere. Mapping Your Manor was commissioned by the Olympic Delivery Authority and supported by Arts Council England

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