please empty your brain below
Inappropriate jaunty paint or not, very pleased to see on that photo that the friendly cycle hire man is still there at the Greenway, still playing his trade.

Dan | 12.03.17 - 7:12 a.m. | #

Should be "next door" rather than nextdoor?

Regards

zin92 | 12.03.17 - 7:22 a.m. | #

Those flats look as blandly depressing the ones over the river on the Peninsular.

It would be a tad less depressing if ordinary Londoners could actually afford to buy them.

Nearest 'affordable' flat my son has seen near here, over 250,000 quid.

Chris | 12.03.17 - 7:52 a.m. | #

>I love that an age-old business remains in operation and is providing employment, in spite of Olympic redevelopment, and that residents in the flats over the road will have to put up with the whiff.

Don't speak too soon. Shame how long running smelly or noisy businesses can be closed for the sake of enjoyment of housing built decades, even a century, later.

Toby | 12.03.17 - 8:45 a.m. | #

Well, at least the E2 / View Tube menu does mark its prices with £, so you can be sure they are prices. I have recently stayed at an hotel near Cheltenham where items on the menu are marked with numbers 5.5, 8.0, 11.5 etc. I guess they were prices, but was staying on a meal-inclusive price so never found out.

JG Morgan | 12.03.17 - 8:50 a.m. | #

DG, I am just wondering was it just perchance that you came to reside in E3. The sheer amount of change that has taken, is taking, and will take place around where you live is staggering which provides you with a constant sources of interesting developments.

Despite living on the opposite side of London (Surrey starts 100m from my house), and mainly having worked on The Strand, I used to go running with colleagues around the roads that would become the Olympic Park (satellite office in Stratford). Therefore, I have a connection with this area, and thanks to you, enjoyed visiting the View Tube x2 (not sure about the new colour scheme though).

And, I would also like to thank you for your flattering comments and greater emphasis on the attractions that are to be found in and around LB Sutton (and Ewell, etc.) - keep up the good work!

Ken | 12.03.17 - 12:29 p.m. | #

@zin92; 'nextdoor' is geezerspeak, dg always writes it like that.
Upheaval in the area is nothing new. In the early 70s I used to cycle through on my way to college. At that time the Bow flyover was being constructed, which caused major disruption. The journey I took regularly for 3 years is now unrecognisable.
As for smells...along Carpenters Rd there were several, most memorable were the meat pie factory and Clarnico (sweets). All those have gone.

amber | 12.03.17 - 3:09 p.m. | #

I enjoy reading about the Olympic Park area, and its post-games developments. It's far from perfect, but it is streets ahead of most post-Olympic places worldwide.

Yes of course it's a shame that the new housing is so expensive, and so bland-looking. But at least it exists, and at least it's not ghastly concrete tower blocks - maybe we're gradually learning something.

Malcolm | 12.03.17 - 3:29 p.m. | #

The whiff of the meat rendering trucks parked beneath the DLR platforms is a welcome departure.

Can anyone tell me what the large secure office site that used to be south of Pudding Mill Lane Station. There used to be a high fence, wide grassed area and then the building. Prior to 2007 of course.

dg writes: Flicking through my copy of the Compulsory Purchase Order, the large site on the corner of Pudding Mill Lane and Barbers Road belonged to Sortex Limited.

martxw | 12.03.17 - 7:55 p.m. | #

Thanks DG. The name gives me something to search on. I just found a forgotten directory full of old grabs from MS Map that show the area before the building really kicked off. Certainly looks more factory-like from the air than my ground-level memory.

http://www.wink.eclipse.co.uk/11-03-2012%2001-27-22.png

I've been meaning to work out exactly where the QMC nuclear reactor used to be in relation to the stadium, so this and the several others around the area I have will help.

martxw | 14.03.17 - 1:13 a.m. | #

Talking of the Olympic Park: given that Durban has declined to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games, how much or how little would be required for London to host it in 2022 using (at least mostly) existing infrastructure?

Chris | Homepage | 14.03.17 - 7:19 a.m. | #

The metal cladding round the lower floors of Capital Towers is hideous and of course looks nothing like the optimistic artistic rendering.

It looks like they have started up construction again after downing tools last year in a row over affordable housing (I think). Do you know how that was resolved?

The outgoing Greenway cafe lot I seem to remember took over after the previous tenants left after the previous rent hike, so let's see if the same happens again next time round.

lockedintheattic | 14.03.17 - 11:16 a.m. | #











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