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Aragon tower was the subject of a 2007 TV series documentary called "the tower", and as I recall was filled with a number of awful people - the blonde marketing woman from the building developers and various new residents of the tower buying into an "aspirational" life. I remember one scene when the new residents up in the tower were looking down on the "locals" below like they were at a zoo

http://www.imdb.com/video/withoutabox/vi3153177369

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tower:_A_Tale_of_Two_Cities

Revolution Now | 23.11.15 - 7:16 a.m. | #

Aragon Tower was sold by L B Lewisham to Berkeley Homes in 2002. It was Berkeley that redeveloped it and added the additional stories at the top. Needless to say, but I'll say it anyway-no "affordable" flats here.

HoosierSands | Homepage | 23.11.15 - 7:17 a.m. | #

I've done the walk before and it's great, except when the cement works is covered in giant muddy puddles!

Rachel | 23.11.15 - 7:52 a.m. | #

I do that walk a lot, and definitely prefer the latter bit!

I do it a lot because... I live on it. So I can't disagree with your thoughts on New Capital Quay. I'm in one of the two "poor blocks", part-buying, part-renting a flat, and still pinching myself every day at my great good luck to have been given the opportunity to do so. I will say however that the gym costs £35 a month, is called Beefs & Babes and was here long before the development (it's nothing to do with it, in other words), and the one restaurant, a sushi place, seems to be dying on its arse. All the empty ground floors, which were meant to be additional restaurants - and a museum! - are unlettable, and a couple of them have been converted in their usage and will be offices, not restaurants after all. Seems to be happening a lot round here - all these flats with space underneath that just isn't interesting to businesses. I'm looking forward to the pub they're currently fitting out on the riverfront, though, and just back from the river the Costa and the Waitrose both do roaring trades, so in no way can I deny the gentrification score!

And yes, to Rachel - I did home to the O2 yesterday (it's an hour for me, I've got little legs) and had a fun wading moment around the cement works... :-)

mighty mouse | 23.11.15 - 8:01 a.m. | #

By coincidence, you and I were walking east at about the same time, with my route being half a mile to the south. Following the visit to Jimmy Cauty's Model Village (see yesterday's comments) I tried to keep away from main roads and find the little gems that are hidden away in London's backstreets.

Through The Borough, past Trinity Square (with the Henry Wood Hall) and Merrick Square, the Alaska building in Grange Road, Bermondsey Spa Gardens, the Dockley Road arches, Southwark Park (stop for cup of tea at the cafe, admire the waterfowl on the lake), South Bermondsey Station perched high on the viaduct but only served by Replacement Buses, the mystical 15ft by 6ft chart on the wall in Rollins Street, the graceful sweep of the Victorian terraces in Brocklehurst Street. Train from New Cross Gate.

| 23.11.15 - 8:24 a.m. | #

You more than welcome to carry out the same type of "report" from say Vauxhall Bridge to Hammersmith Bridge.

E | 23.11.15 - 9:50 a.m. | #

"what is gentrification anyway"...says it all really. Most people know quite well what it is, it just a matter of if it effects you and if it does is it a positive or negative.

Working Class Hero | 23.11.15 - 10:27 a.m. | #

Erm... Hilton Docklands nondescript? How many other London hotels are there with a ruddy great dry dock (now filled with water but still listed at GradeII) in the middle, accommodation contained in an original 19th century warehouse (Columbia Wharf) and the slipway and mechanism of one of the original shipyards of the area?

Richard Thompson | 23.11.15 - 3:20 p.m. | #

In the interests of pedantry.... The hotel is now "Doubletree by Hilton", rather than a standard Hilton.
The "proposed" cruise terminal. Grenwich Council have granted planning permission, so I think it's a step further than "proposed".

IslandDweller | 23.11.15 - 8:38 p.m. | #

Don't appreciate the flat I live in in Odessa Street being called 'bog standard'! Get the point though

SJM | 27.11.15 - 7:18 p.m. | #











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