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I never fail to be entertained by these new topics. Well done DG.
Drat. If I'd realised canals were involved in Big Brother I might have taken more interest!
Having passed that area while doing the Capital Ring etc and the guides suggesting I should look out for the Big Brother house I always wondered why I never found it. Now I know why, thanks DG. Should have been down there tomorrow picking up the Lea Valley walk but couldn't find anywhere sensible for lunch so will be another time.
Never having watched Big Brother, I shall instead comment on the great shot of a bee coming in to land on the buddleia!

I'm surprised they haven't tried to shoehorn in some Luxury Apartments onto the site!
If the location of the original Big Brother house is Bow, what are the actual boundaries of Bow? Is everything in E3 considered Bow these days?
In 1993 BBC North did a show called 'The Living Soap' where six students agreed to live in a house free of charge in exchange for being filmed and that days events being broadcast that same night, it even had a sort of diary room. It was supposed to last a year, but got pulled after 5 months, I was reminded of it when Big Brother first appeared.

There are a couple of episodes on YouTube.
I've just been looking at the satellite images of this area, which is not too far from where I live. Looking across the Channelsea River and the railway tracks, I see there are two pairs of semi-detached houses stranded between the tracks, the gasholders and a large area of post-industrial wasteland. I'm not sure I've seen houses in such a strange location in London before. I wonder who lives there are why.
"...and then peered through what was now a firmly locked gate." Not being a BB fan and skim reading today's post, I thought you had done something else through the firmly locked gate!
James. I think those houses were built for employees of the gas works.
Chapeau for the Bazalgette link.
As has been said before on Bazalgette;
The great man pumped away household sewage,
The grandson reversed the flow...
Sealing off an area and capping the soil with massive piles of earth is usually associated with some kind of disastrous pollution.

Ah...
Those houses are Wembley Cottages in Crows Road, according to Open Street Map. Other sources, such as Google Maps and streetmap.co.uk do not even name the road at that point.

Crows Road runs along the north side of the railway (LU and c2c), then turns underneath it to these "cottages".

Others may wish to dig further.
just as an aside, the pumping station was designed by Allies and Morrison and won some awards at the time.










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