Limehouse Circuit

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.

Comments

[Richard]

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.

[Richard]

Mick,

sorry, but I do not see what is so 'grim' about The Highway.

[Mick H]

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.

[DaninVan]

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

[Mick H]

I should really work out how to do that Google map business, shouldn't I? -and maybe stick little pointers in.