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Thanks for the nicely written update, always interesting to read about the the rapidly changing area around Stratford.
Another area in London which is seeing great changes is between Battersea and Vauxhall with demolition and new building on a wide (and tall) scale.
John | 03.07.15 - 7:44 a.m. | #
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Great post, love this sort of thing. The Sewer Pipe series is quite remarkable really. Top stuff DG!
Kevin | 03.07.15 - 7:53 a.m. | #
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BTW "Carpenters Lock" and "these paths" links are dead.
John
dg writes: Yes, I've kept the links from ten years ago, so I'm sure most of them are dead.
John | 03.07.15 - 8:07 a.m. | #
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Waltham Forest pool has been recently demolished, unfortunately, and, controversially, the council will not include equivalent diving facilities in its replacement.
Dan | 03.07.15 - 8:16 a.m. | #
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That was interesting, even to a non-Londoner uninterested in most kinds of 'sport'. Thanks, DG.
Bronchitikat | Homepage | 03.07.15 - 10:20 a.m. | #
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Excellent post DG, more please - your Olympics archive is brilliant.
Carlbob | Homepage | 03.07.15 - 12:03 p.m. | #
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I wonder what happened to the "displaced"...moved to another part of London or further afield. Perhaps took "early retirement" or went aboard. Like the Docklands...the "shiny new" won over the "dirty old", but always feel as if something "true" was also lost along the way. Get the sense the same is going to happen at Battersea/Nine Elms...
Working Class Hero | 03.07.15 - 12:32 p.m. | #
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This really needs to be a book. Why not collate your 10 years of posts into something that can be published DG? It's a unique story, expertly told, and deserves to reach a wider audience.
s | 03.07.15 - 3:48 p.m. | #
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Really fascinating stuff even for an ex Londoner like me now exiled in Berkshire. I just wish I had made regular trips to Reading station over the last 5 years to chronicle another infrastructure success story. Here's to the 3rd runway at Heathrow!
Julian | 03.07.15 - 4:03 p.m. | #
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@ Julian
Seems to me that a 3rd runway at Heathrow is the "easy" and short-term/maximum quick gain option. In the time it will take to construct (15 years?) and it opens for use, there will already be "demand" for another runway somewhere around London. Better to start now on a new airport which can have "built-in" plans for a second & third runaway. Assuming 15 years per runway would take us into the 2040s & 2060s...that is the sort of difficult but long-term/slow gain planning that should be being considered. That would give some local(s) a life-long blog to write too ;)
E | 03.07.15 - 6:48 p.m. | #
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I was surprised when the Third runway option was chosen for Heathrow as the airport had put forward plans to increase capacity by extending one of the existing runways, which was cheaper and less disruptive. Then I though maybe a clever decision, build a third runway now which is the hard job, then later when that is full it would be fairly easy to re-hash the extended runway plan, ending up with an airport with four runway capacity.
John | 04.07.15 - 7:39 a.m. | #
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