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Interesting read. When I walked the Loop it ended at Coldharbour point, so I had to walk back again to Rainham. Good to hear the long promised extension to Rainham exists now.

Jon Combe | 13.10.15 - 7:34 a.m. | #

Really fascinating part of London - top read - ta!

Kevin | 13.10.15 - 7:58 a.m. | #

You're showing your bleak naus again DG, great read.

Waterhouse | 13.10.15 - 8:07 a.m. | #

Another good read.

All your journeys start from home. How do you overcome the boredom of that first part of the journey? There can only be a few ways of leaving Bow, so you will have done them over and over again to get to the point where the landscape is new.

Do you have any secrets for 'blotting-out' Bow Church DLR, or Bow Road District line, or the No.25 bus?

RayL | 13.10.15 - 8:32 a.m. | #

What a curious question from RayL. All of /everyone's/ journeys start from home. Well, nearly all.

Malcolm | 13.10.15 - 9:42 a.m. | #

If you're in Purfleet I recommend a visit to the High House Production Park which houses the backstage operations of the Royal Opera House and is known as Royal Opera House Thurrock. It is a complex of renovated listed buildings plus some new eco-friendly ones. It has good tours and Inspiration Days (one of which I went on with my teenage daughter). Just ten minutes walk from Purfleet station.

Joan | 13.10.15 - 9:48 a.m. | #

@RayL
Clearly DG does notice things on his most frequently-used routes, as the recent Bow Bus Stop saga makes all too clear! However, you do blot out regulkar trips: I have travelled to work on the same line since 1993 - even the trains are the same now as they were then. Do I remember every journey? Of course not - I barely remember today's.

Slightly more scary is that I can drive a long distance over a familiar route like the A1 or A12 or M40, and have very little recollection of anything about it afterwards.

timbo | 13.10.15 - 10:32 a.m. | #

At Rainham Marshes they told us that cattle were originally grazed here hundreds of years ago and it was one day's march to Smithfield. The nature reserve now has cows grazing because they are good at pulling up the ground, which is better for insects and other wildlife - sheep would create a golf course.

Margaret | Homepage | 13.10.15 - 11:31 a.m. | #

Did you see the weird multi-coloured slag on the Thames beaches as you approach the RSPB reserve? I'd love to know more about it! https://www.flickr.com/photos/131003684@N06/16216763337

| 13.10.15 - 7:14 p.m. | #

I remember visiting that rifle range when I was an air cadet more than half-a-century ago. One or two of the kids tried to get off a shot at a passing train, but the line was just a bit too far away!

Jim Webber | 13.10.15 - 7:51 p.m. | #

I also shot at the range forty years ago with my school's childrens' army. (I was an armourer,that allowed me to avoid sport on Saturdays) One hot mid-Summer day always remains in memory, because we returned to school in the minibus more thirsty than it is humanly possible to be.

Noel | 13.10.15 - 11:18 p.m. | #











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