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Backing onto Footscray meadows what is now (Looking at google maps) a small industrial site anchored by JJ food service used to be Europe's biggest DRAM factory in the 70's. One of the first IC factories in the world ITT Semiconductors starting making Germanium diodes in the 1950's, and progressed through multitude of silicon technology generations before closing in 1992. Used to have its own swimming pool on-site (Before I worked there in the 80's).
Ok sorry for the diversion carry on :-)
Gary | 16.09.15 - 3:05 a.m. | #
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On seeing the picture of the river and then reading "Tanyard Lane ducks ..." I thought I was going to hear about a species of wildfowl hitherto unknown to me.
Pedantic of Purley | 16.09.15 - 8:56 a.m. | #
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This was my favourite section of the LOOP. The 5 arched bridge was a particularly lovely surprise.
Jon Combe | 16.09.15 - 9:02 a.m. | #
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A long time since I've been down that way - I used to live further up the line to Victoria - and somehow I never strayed far enough from the railway to find the Willett memorial. I must go there again.
Incidentally, the railway you cross first, alongside the Kyd Brook, is the one from Maidstone to Victoria, not the Sevenoaks route.
(The posh people from the area presumably spelt the Kyd Brook that way to distance themselves from Kidbrooke, which is a more downmarket tributary of the Quaggy)
timbo | 16.09.15 - 10:23 a.m. | #
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The house at Scadbury has a place in WW2 history as being the location where the last V1 to fall on Britain came down, on 28 March 1945.
It was, however, a fire in the late 1970s that reduced to site to its current ruined state.
Unfortunately the area has a bit too much of a history of fires.
RogerW | 16.09.15 - 11:01 a.m. | #
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@Roger W
It appears that a field near Datchworth in Hertfordshire has a later claim (by one day) to have been hit by a V1. Scadbury may well have been the last building to have been hit though.
However, this website gives Swanscombe as the last V1, on March 28th, and Orpington as the last V2, on the previous day.
timbo | 16.09.15 - 5:25 p.m. | #
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Another website, with slightly different chronology
Doesn't mention Datchworth, but does mention one near Waltham Abbey
timbo | 16.09.15 - 5:38 p.m. | #
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Sorry, a correction: the detail I omitted was Scadbury was the last one to cause casualties.
RogerW | 16.09.15 - 8:32 p.m. | #
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Keep up the good work DG so much effort in these blogs especially about the transformation of the east end, very entertaining.
Its inspired me to take up photography.
Might not be up your street but check out dysfunctional parrot. also a good blog about....well stuff.
Nothing to do with me, but sometimes a good read.
Sidney | 27.09.15 - 4:15 a.m. | #
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