A spot of sunshine after all that rain, and a bit milder too, so I'm off on the bike. I'm not the only one:
Olympic preparations behind the boards to the left. and ahead. The tall straight structure in the centre is new: no idea what it is. Observation platform? For the High Dive?
Docklands towers ahead:
Towards Bow Locks on the run-down part of the river below Stratford High Street, where the Olympic money won't reach:
This part of the river's tidal below Three Mills, so it's unusual to see such a large boat here:
In a few hours that'll be mostly mud, with a trickle of water running past an upturned car chassis that's been there for years.
Down Limehouse Cut:
And a detour to St Anne's Limehouse:
Unmistakeably a Hawksmoor church:
Past the Limehouse basin marina and out onto the Thames at Limehouse Reach:
Back via another Hawksmoor church: St George's-in-the-East, on a grim stretch of The Highway (not that there's a stretch that isn't grim) - what used to be the notorious Ratcliffe Highway:
I've posted about St George's-in-the-East before. It's had a colourful life.
Each time I log on to your site, I hope that there will be photographs to look at. Today I was not disappointed. Please continue to include them. For reasons that are difficult to explain, there always seems to me to be an air of great dignity about them.
Posted by: Richard | January 27, 2009 at 11:09 AM
Mick,
sorry, but I do not see what is so 'grim' about The Highway.
Posted by: Richard | January 27, 2009 at 01:16 PM
Don't you think it's a grim road? Nothing out of the ordinary, I suppose, but I've always been glad to get off it. Maybe I'm biased as it's not at all cycle-friendly - just two-lane dual carriageway of heavy traffic thundering past.
Posted by: Mick H | January 27, 2009 at 03:32 PM
Ditto to Richard's comment; but it doesn't change my previous perception of the moodiness factor.
I really appreciate your including place names as it makes using Google Maps, and satellite imagery, possible.
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=St.+Anne%27s,+Limehouse&sll=51.502438,-0.126171&sspn=0.049367,0.11879&gl=ca&g=London%2Bmap&ie=UTF8&ll=51.505751,-0.023003&spn=0.049364,0.11879&z=13
Posted by: DaninVan | January 27, 2009 at 04:27 PM
I should really work out how to do that Google map business, shouldn't I? -and maybe stick little pointers in.
Posted by: Mick H | January 27, 2009 at 07:05 PM