please empty your brain below
|
|
I thought you had blogged about walking from Barking Riverside to the sewage works? The path is there, running down the western side of Barking Creek and for a couple of hundred yards along the Thames but there is no further access past the sewage works.
Paul Draper | 07.10.20 - 7:37 a.m. | #
|
|
*wonders how long it will be before someone demands that Lyle Park is renamed*
Blue Witch | 07.10.20 - 8:07 a.m. | #
|
While it would definitely be nice to stay by the river the whole time, and I'm 100% with you on Westferry Road, there is something to be said for walking inland a bit, if only to get a stronger sense of the contrasts.
Shame on me for having no idea about the heliport.
Will | 07.10.20 - 8:07 a.m. | #
|
Interesting. I might do the same for my home borough of Hammersmith. I haven't been down to the area around Imperial Wharf for probably 5 years, and know a lot of construction has changed things from there to Hurlingham park. Would be interesting to see how it stacks up now.
At least past Hurlingham it's pretty decent all the way to Chiswick and beyond to Chiswick Bridge - and one of the larger breaks should be opened up in a couple years when the Craven Cottage riverside stand development is done - opening up the path from Bishop's Park through to the Hammersmith side of the grounds.
Will - I used to live on the Isle of Dogs near the heliport, so I knew of it from the sign, but very rarely saw helicopters from it. Battersea's is much busier.
Greg | 07.10.20 - 8:24 a.m. | #
|
|
Here's an housing project slated for the Blackwall Yards site, which will make that bit of the Thames Path accessible.
DiamondGezzerSuperFan | Homepage | 07.10.20 - 8:59 a.m. | #
|
|
The south side of the Thames Path east of Tower Bridge is generally better than the north side, just the one major detour near Deptford
Mikey C | 07.10.20 - 9:36 a.m. | #
|
Schoolboy error made by many: it's St Katherine Docks (not St Katherine's Dock)
dg writes: Thanks. But it's actually St Katharine Docks, not St Katherine Docks.
SteveP | 07.10.20 - 9:48 a.m. | #
|
Do new developments always have to provide access these days? Would that be up to the Mayor or the boroughs?
In west London the Thames path is much more riverfront on the southern bank (Battersea to Richmond) than the northern one (Chelsea to St Margarets)
lockedintheattic | 07.10.20 - 10:07 a.m. | #
|
Love the contrasting sky in each photo! Is that down to whether you were facing west/east when you took it or was it really that changeable?
The white block with the angry clouds behind is particularly striking.
Cornish Cockney | 07.10.20 - 10:15 a.m. | #
|
|
No report on how strongly enforced the security is at New Providence Wharf?
TheLupineOne | 07.10.20 - 10:25 a.m. | #
|
There has been a concerted effort to provide public walkways along the eastern end of the Thames in recent years. Enjoy what walks you can.
I would imagine due to industry along the thames, that from Tower Bridge heading east - on both sides - the only public access to view was via stairs, the odd small park or marshland, well into the 80's.
As a kid the whole of the river appeared impenetrable except at King Edward memorial park at Shadwell.
Dave | 07.10.20 - 11:06 a.m. | #
|
I always enjoy it when your wanderings get close by to what has been my home for the past 3 years (I'm a relatively recent returnee to London after 3 decades elsewhere). I'm in one of those developments blocking river access - Cyclops Wharf, immediately north of the heliport. And while I'm sorry that people can’t access a river path right next to our place, it was never thus, of course: back in the days of the Cyclops Iron Works, and Le Bas Tubing (from the late 19th century until the 1980s), the river frontage here was well out of bounds.
It's not just housing developments between the heliport and Arnhem Wharf: just south of AW Primary School, there's Klein's Storage Yard: the one remaining bit of ‘industrial' river frontage on our side of the island.
JonathanM | 07.10.20 - 3:46 p.m. | #
|
|
The sign you mentioned at New Providence Wharf reminds me of one on the path at Wapping. It not only warns those loitering and consuming alcohol that CCTV footage will be handed to the police but also handed to local religious organisations. Strange.
wheedle | 07.10.20 - 8:04 p.m. | #
|
Capstain Square to Island gardens. Not quite continuous riverside walking. You have to pop into the car park of the Cubitt Wharf building (end of Storey Quay), as the building itself is right on the river edge.
Poplar Rowing Club to Felsted. There is a short section of riverside walk here - not dead end. Go into Livingstone Place and out at Felsted Gardens
IslandDweller | 07.10.20 - 8:37 p.m. | #
|
Ah yes, Cubitt Wharf, sorry.
And I apologise for all the other "well actually" inaccuracies I've glossed over in the post.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 07.10.20 - 8:51 p.m. | #
|
|
Seems my comment with some links didn’t get through so I’ll just say: promoted by this post, I enjoyed finding and rereading posts of DG’s walks along stretches of the Thames further upstream in the last decade or so. I encourage others to look them out.
Andrew | 08.10.20 - 9:22 a.m. | #
|
|
Greg's had a go at giving the Hammersmith & Fulham riverside a similar YES/NO treatment here, in fascinating detail.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 28.10.20 - 5:15 p.m. | #
|
I meant to post about this at the time, and got distracted!
Blackwall Yard (the section between New Providence Wharf and Prime Meridian Walk) is as noted not walkable; but there are gates at the entrance on either side, an obvious walking route, and, most peculiarly, a dated sign at Prime Meridian Walk pointing people through the gate for jubilee line replacement boat services to North Greenwich. I’ve never got to the bottom of when this used to be accessible (at least to the park) and has since been closed, and there’s nothing online about it that I can see.
Chris D | 08.04.21 - 10:23 a.m. | #
|
|
The gates were never accessible all the way through, only (one end) unlocked (occasionally) in the late 2000s when a special Jubilee line replacement ferry service was in operation.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 08.04.21 - 1:44 p.m. | #
|
|
Londonist has an article on a campaigner that has been funded one day a week by Tower Hamlets to look at solutions to use walkways over the river to bridge the gaps.
Greg | 12.08.22 - 10:59 a.m. | #
|
|
|
TridentScan v2.10.0 | Privacy Policy
|