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One of the memories from my teenage years was sitting in a friends bedroom which overlooked the mills. Always looked slightly 'spooky' at night. Was nice to see the mill appear in 'Ashes to Ashes' last week - well, there can't be many bits of London that are so unchanged since the 1980s!
Brendan | 18.02.08 - 8:31 a.m. | #
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That photo is bloody well fantastic. Nice one dg. (Good piece too.)
The Girl | Homepage | 18.02.08 - 9:26 a.m. | #
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It's an incredible sight, isn't it? It's one of the few old Docklands buildings left that can be seen from this side of the Thames. I wasn't really aware of it until Jean Michel Jarre lit it up - that must have been about 1990?
Can't believe they're going to make it into yuppie flats, though. Ho ho ho.
Inspector Sands | Homepage | 18.02.08 - 9:48 a.m. | #
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You can imagine the conversation on the top floor balcony at some city type's housing-warming party can't you...
"Tarquin, will you pass the olives? Tarquin? TARQUIN! [SCREAMING] TARQUIN!" as a Lufthansa turboprop passes 100 feet over their heads... 
Mr Brightside | Homepage | 18.02.08 - 12:45 p.m. | #
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The night time view from the top of the Mills is pretty amazing. I was quite fascinated by Silo D when I first saw it. This is quite a good gallery:
http://www.contaminationzone.com...om/
Gallery9.php
Laura-Ann | 18.02.08 - 12:52 p.m. | #
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If the flats are close to City Airport, at least the City people who will eventually live there will not have to worry about M25 traffic jams and delayed trains causing them to miss the flights to their very important business meetings in Frankfurt, New York or wherever.
Andrewh | 18.02.08 - 1:02 p.m. | #
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Stunning building.
Anonymous | 18.02.08 - 3:51 p.m. | #
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I'm not following you, DG - though I was in the same pub as you on Friday and cycled past the Mills yesterday slowly, in awe of the desolation of the buildings and their surroundings.
I've been fascinated by the Mills since I first saw it on the DLR (on my way to City Airport) but I could never live there...
Novaelius | 18.02.08 - 9:02 p.m. | #
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Quote: "If the flats are close to City Airport, at least the City people who will eventually live there will not have to worry about M25 traffic jams and delayed trains causing them to miss the flights to their very important business meetings in Frankfurt, New York or wherever."
You're having a laugh now aren't you?!
Anonymous | 19.02.08 - 2:15 a.m. | #
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Was there an outcry when the fabulous CWS Flour mill, c.1939 by L.G Ekins was demolished? Initially it was thought not to interfere with the Airport. Here is another picture of this vanished modernist wonder....
http://www.portcities.org.uk/lon...ill-c-
1960.html
felix | 19.02.08 - 6:40 a.m. | #
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I'm sorry, since 9/11 I don't like the sight of Aircraft coming too close to buildings. Even on photographs.
Don't like that shot.
Does anybody else feel this way?
On another point, I think, it's sad to see that the area is "only" being beautified as part of yet another scheme "to make more money". That, in my opinion, is not the way to rejuvenate or bring life back into an area. I bet, in the long term it won't succeed. In 10-15 years, it will be run-down again and those with the dosh will have turned their attentions to some other new game. It if all wasn't real, I'd think it was fake !
IsarSteve | Homepage | 19.02.08 - 8:40 a.m. | #
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