Leyton Olympic Market – Waltham Forest Matters

Looking back at the past, an occasional series. Part two: ‘Our Olympics – “Chariots of Ire”‘

Nick Tiratsoo July 29, 2022 2012 Olympics in Waltham Forest, 2012 Olympics in Waltham Forest: Leyton Market, 2012 Olympics in Waltham Forest: the Dispersal Order, National Construction College Cathall Rd.

Purely for amusement, and to compliment all the remeniscing prompted by the 2012 anniversary, here’s a post that first appeared on this blog in 2015, one of a series on ‘Our Olympics’ (see links for the others). Who can forget the sight of no less a figure than LBWF CEO Martin Esom scurrying round the borough’s public libraries to collect in as many copies of the council’s Olympic guide to Leyton as he could, lest he and his chums be blamed for the evolving fiasco that was the Leyton Market? A ‘Gold medal for ineptitude’, indeed. ‘Our Olympics’: (1) LB... »

Leyton Olympic Market, Olympic legacy

‘Our Olympics’: (1) LBWF and Leyton Market – the Council wins a ‘gold medal for ineptitude’

Nick Tiratsoo April 8, 2015 2012 Olympics in Waltham Forest: Leyton Market

In the immediate run-up to the start of the Olympic Games in July 2012, LBWF proudly promoted a ‘new international food market’ in Marshall Street, adjacent to Leyton underground station, and, more important, metaphorically ‘just a stone’s throw away from the Olympic stadium’. In a press release, Cabinet Member for Economic Development and Corporate Resources, Cllr. Mark Rusling, enthused: ‘This is a great opportunity for Waltham Forest to celebrate the Olympics by creating trade for local businesses and offering a diverse selection of international food and drink for residents and visitors to... »

Brian Jokat, broken promises, Gary Ince, LBWF, Leyton Olympic Market, Mark Rusling, North London Ltd., Olympic legacy, Private Eye, Skateco (UK) Co., TFL, Waltham Forest Council

North London Ltd. – an enigma wrapped in a mystery?

Nick Tiratsoo March 5, 2015 North London Ltd.

A name that crops up in the context of the E11 BID Co. fiasco is North London Ltd. (NLL), a company that was launched in 2004 and apparently went into compulsory liquidation ten years later, put there by its creditors. According to a press release of 2013, NLL was ‘the sub-regional business support agency for North London’ and worked ‘to accelerate business growth and development and attract inward investment into the area’ – reminiscent of the corporate gobbledygook that made Dave Brent so famous. Scattered information elsewhere suggests it sometimes traded as North London Business (con... »

E11 BID Co., Gary Ince, Leyton Olympic Market, London Development Agency, North London Business, North London Ltd.