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That was a good one. The Pathé film is great, well worth a click.

Kevin | 18.12.21 - 9:28 a.m. | #

A decent road that.

Mikey C | 18.12.21 - 9:46 a.m. | #

Section 17 of the Green London Way goes along the path in Wick Woods so it may not be always so deserted. Then having crossed the B112 it goes across Mabley Green. That big rock is quite impressive! Pity about the interchange at the end under and over the A12.

davews | 18.12.21 - 10:22 a.m. | #

I love this series - so much diversity! Thankyou, and please keep them coming.

cau1khead | 18.12.21 - 11:39 a.m. | #

> ironically its residents now live in matchboxes instead

Nice :-)

Having watched the Pathe link, I now find myself reading your blog in the clipped RP tones of a mid 60s public information film. If I wander round the charity shops later I'll watch out for a Shadows LP to put on in the background while I'm reading you.

mark addy | 18.12.21 - 12:08 p.m. | #

I'm sure a couple of small twists in the sculpture's track would have corrected the design's layout.

Cornish Cockney | 18.12.21 - 1:39 p.m. | #

I, as I am sure many others, have run partially along this route as the start of the Hackney Half Marathon. Had I known I would have taken a quick sideways glance at the site. I loved Matchbox cars as a child. Had quite a collection until I finally gifted them to my first nephew once I knew we was old enough not to wreck them.

Greg | 18.12.21 - 1:46 p.m. | #

A useful piece of info on the former Lesney/Matchbox factory site. It's disappointing the planners didn't take the opportunity, or choose to reflect the Lesney/Matchbox heritage in naming roads on the new estate. I see one I see there's a Matchmakers Wharf, but as the company was Lesney, and 'Matchbox' only the brand, it's a tenuous link at best.

Stuart R | 18.12.21 - 4:59 p.m. | #

Anyone who would like to see pre-boulder Mabley Green should take a look at the early 90s series 'The Game', covering Sunday league football.

Apart from it being highly entertaining, you get a good snapshot of the area in today's post as it was 30 years ago.

Ned | 18.12.21 - 5:58 p.m. | #

There is a Lesney Avenue, off Eastway, at the north end of Olympic Park.

Jeremy Buck | 18.12.21 - 11:55 p.m. | #

Re Wick Wood - sadly there are now some homeless people camping in the wood in makeshift encampments when I last ventured through it on my bicycle

Andrew Jarman | 19.12.21 - 1:16 a.m. | #

This was a nice journey. Its one of the few "walks" I've taken along with you where the Google Street view is relatively recent, in this case, August of this year. Normally businesses you reference are not even close to the same as the one's found on a street view from 2012!

Steven | 20.12.21 - 5:55 p.m. | #

Nice piece of nostalgia. I lived on the Kingsmead Estate in the mid-80s.

There was a (long since demolished) pub called the Golden Shoe just off the northwest corner of the estate. Can't remember the name of the couple who ran it but one night, at a lock-in, they introduced me to their friend Lennie Peters - of Peters and Lee.

Dave Cross | 22.12.21 - 6:14 p.m. | #











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