Where the River Lea joins the Thames, and home of Container City. Since my last visit they've put another container building in the middle, and repainted the lightship. And they've finally started building work on the nearby Leamouth peninsula. It's still as difficult to get to, though....via a roundabout with a London taxi and a metal tree through its roof:
and a narrow road with building sites, old corrugated iron sheds, and bits of street art:
before you turn the corner into the Wharf itself:
With views over the river to Docklands and the Greenwich peninsula:
Back via East India Dock Basin....as desolate as ever.
This is by Orchard Place, once upon a time there was a company; Pura Foods, that manufactured margarine and cooking oils on the narrow neck of land enclosed by the Bow Creek. I worked there in the 1990s. The raw ingredients of margarine (fish oil and palm oil) were delivered from ships to the wharf outside the East India basin. its there now according to google, but it seems to be a mooring place for poncy pleasure boats. I watched the white elephant named the Dome being built.
Posted by: Malcolm Coghill | July 11, 2015 at 11:37 PM
Yes, Orchard Place is that narrow road I mentioned - no doubt much changed from your time there. According to Wikipedia, Pura Foods is now based in Erith and Purfleet - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pura_Foods
Posted by: Mick H | July 11, 2015 at 11:54 PM