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This feels very picky, but...
Your "panorama of London Skyscraper Central" link points to the Redwood trees picture. They're lovely trees, I grant you, but I was expecting some skyscraper goodness :)
Ace blog btw, first thing I go to in the morning (even if I never comment - sorry)
dg writes: Sorry, took a while, but fixed now.
Jon | 06.08.14 - 9:15 a.m. | #
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Where have I heard of Chingford on TV? Has it been mentioned / was it the location in any London based TV show? On my most recent visit we went through Cricklewood and began singing 'Goody, Goody, Yum, Yum!'. That would be pretty cool as a DG series - going around to real London places mentioned / used as the basis for different UK TV shows (not just filming locations, but places that became part of the story line)... - like Cricklewood!
Antipodean | 06.08.14 - 10:26 a.m. | #
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Antipodean - the 'girls' of Birds of a Feather live in Chingford.
Bronchitikat | Homepage | 06.08.14 - 10:50 a.m. | #
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DG - please stop marking my comments as spam.
Thnx
dg writes: I can only do this if you add an email to your comment. Please see previous message. Thnx.
Bronchitikat | Homepage | 06.08.14 - 10:50 a.m. | #
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Loved the military term in relation to the wild flowers :)
Greg | 06.08.14 - 10:51 a.m. | #
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I guess Pole Hill is probably a good spot to view the Meridian Laser.
It gets a picture here.
http://www.thegreenwichmeridian.org/tgm/articles.php?article=14
Julian Bond | Homepage | 06.08.14 - 11:38 a.m. | #
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I thought you'd be covering the installation of the City Island bridge!
Arkady | 06.08.14 - 1:23 p.m. | #
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AP: You might be thinking of Chigwell (as opposed to Chingford - they're both in Essex) which was the supposed setting for the comedy series "Birds of a Feather"
(FWIW, there was a brief time when the series was set in nearby Hainault, which comes into DG's post)
RogerW | 06.08.14 - 2:15 p.m. | #
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"it's very hard to judge which end is higher purely by eye"
But you have a smartphone that can tell exactly.
Greg | 06.08.14 - 2:53 p.m. | #
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RogerW: AP might be thinking of Chigley, which featured in the eponymous children's TV series in the 1960s. ;-)
Plastic Man | 06.08.14 - 4:03 p.m. | #
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I always associate Chingford with Norman Tebbit, even though he stopped being the local MP when I was still at school.
Whiff | 06.08.14 - 5:35 p.m. | #
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DG - can you perhaps explain why this series is being billed as a 'Local History Month'? Surely the highest point in a borough changes very little over history - any changes would have happened in what is called 'Pre-History'!
Sorry for the pedantry
Stephen | 06.08.14 - 8:36 p.m. | #
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I'm enjoying this series. Pole Hill looks especially good, but a shame about that bin in Redbridge.
Jon Combe | 06.08.14 - 8:55 p.m. | #
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Hi Stephen
It's a local history month because I'm not just writing about the topography, there's quite a lot of sociology/history too.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 06.08.14 - 9:30 p.m. | #
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Plastic Man - Ah, but Chigley is (admittedly very loosely) based on Chailey, in East Sussex (where the villages of Wivelsfield Green and Plumpton also provided inspiration for its neighbours)
Sarah | Homepage | 07.08.14 - 8:00 a.m. | #
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Maybe it was 'Birds', confusion over name or not. It could also have been Norman Tebbit now I think of it, or something I read about the conservative party more generally ... Thanks all!
Antipodean | 07.08.14 - 8:08 a.m. | #
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Ah yes, thanks :-)
Stephen | 07.08.14 - 8:21 a.m. | #
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Not immensely relevant but I've played cricket at Havering-atte-Bower many a time and am very heartened to learn that the club is still there.
JonnyB | Homepage | 08.08.14 - 4:41 p.m. | #
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