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Are you sure the bus route is the 106? The live bus map I’ve just used has it going down to Whitechapel rather than turning down Morning Lane.
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Well timed - I drove along all parts of it yesterday.
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Thanks DG. A great write up but its the No.30 which runs down Morning Lane and Wick Road.
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Bus route fixed, thanks.
But next time please just tell me, rather than… 1. “Are you sure it’s…?” (when you know it isn’t) 2. “Thanks, a great write up but…” |
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Finally a London B road I know - or at least did a decade or so ago when friends lived in the area. The Tesco was a convenient stopping off point to buy wine to take to said friends, but also served as a useful example of how a store could be sited that suits both pedestrians and car drivers, rather than the more usual arrangement that forces pedestrians to go for a route march across a car park.
I note that with typical TfL indifference, the bus stop on Morning Lane is called "Trelawney Estate" rather than the more obvious "Tesco", that most people would use as a local landmark. |
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Many would argue that naming a bus stop “Tesco” rather than “Trelawney Estate” would be showing genuine indifference.
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Regarding your final point, you could always do a series of posts on walking Britain's former B roads. Or at least walking the former B roads of London.
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Looking at the map, I'd forgotten that I used to occasionally drive down this B road, back when it was a gyratory as a means of getting to the Blackwall Tunnel approach road
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B113 “meadows despoiled”, “despoliation” alongside the B112, the Roding “on its despoiled journey”: you led me to look up the meanings, and it seems despoilment and despoliation are associated with pillage rather than mere blighting of landscapes, though of course spoil is often removed when a road is dug and “spoiling” has certainly lost its connection with theft. Honestly not sure now whether modern usage has extended despoilment/despoliation beyond plundering, or whether the longer forms are pretentious and plain “spoilt” would be more apt. Then again, we’d be lost for words in the modern world without figurative extensions of ancient concrete meanings, and your manipulation of words is renowned. Oh but now I don’t know whether you’ll delete me for being tedious or tell me off for ending a quibble with a heartfelt compliment. Nevertheless…
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I'll award you a mug :)
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Feat of clay – delovely!
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Of course Tesco was once the site of Hackney bus garage.
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Our house, 7 miles away, is called Kenton. The pub's owners moved here in the 1950's and named the house after the pub.
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