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I love this place. Thank you for the updates.
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I never knew there was so much in it…
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They should have landscaped the Blossom Garden for year round interest and named it something else!
Having only ever visited the bit nearest the stadium a couple of times, and walking along the canal a few more, I still struggle to see how it all connects without the aid of a map! To me the bit by the swimming pool and stadium is 'The Park', and the rest is just 'other bits'! |
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The velodrome offers taster sessions, so if you've ever wondered what it's like to ride a track bike you can find out. No spoilers, but recommended.
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I can't help feeling that provincial universities who feel the need for an outpost in London lack faith in their home area and help perpetuate a London-centric view of the country.
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I'm fairly sure the space-invader shaped bit is is V&A East Museum, and V&A East Storehouse is (and will remain) up at Here East. Not at all confusing, and may get rebranded 4-5 more times between now and opening day in 2025.
Current details are here. dg writes: sorry, I copied that off the wrong bit of the sign. |
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In your pictures from ten years ago, the site is so pristine that they could be mistaken for artists' impressions of what it was expected to look like.
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Fascinating. Thank you for the comprehensive update.
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I have never visited the Olympic Park area but from your description would be it be a fair conclusion to draw that the legacy is actually very good, certainly in comparison with some other cities staging the games and notwithstanding what is claimed to be the excessively generous terms given to West Ham United FC?
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Delighted to read that the View Tube is still going strong
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So different from when I rented an ACME art studio in a former perfume factory on Carpenter’s Road in the early 1990s, surrounded by fridge mountains, breakers’ yards and the former BR Stratford locomotive depot and works. The East Bank V&A now occupies the same spot as the studios and I’m looking forward to trying to locate my former cubic meterage of workspace in the new building when it opens.
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I'm now in the strange position of dismantling a TV studio in the same building for the second time, having done it after the Olympics, and now a slightly longer transmission. We've got a few more things left to unplug before the lease expires on Monday, but we've done enough so far that nobody's going to be making live telly in there for a while.
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I just read that a build-to-rent developer has been granted planning permission for three tower blocks in East Village, the former athletes’ village.
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Interesting place names in the first photo from 10 years ago. I don't recognise Millrace Meadow, Alfred's Meadow or Madison Place but I have seen Dane's Walk and Hopkins' Field still in use. I wonder if the names were officially dropped or simply forgotten about.
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A big chunk of pedestrian access to the East Bank has opened up to the UAL building and it's now possible to walk from the pool to UAL and up to the main bridge.
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