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I experienced a moment of crushing reality when, listening to some radio announcer, I realised that "The O2" was going to stick as a name and that the Dome, its origins and connotations were going to be lost in time. Maybe I should add it to the elephant series....genus elephus albeo.
Ham | Homepage | 06.05.07 - 9:24 a.m. | #
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Nice report. I still like to do this walk from time to time.
NiC | Homepage | 06.05.07 - 10:46 a.m. | #
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How do you pin a compulsory purchase order to a lamppost?
Does the official notice pinner upper have extremely strong thumbs?
Dave | Homepage | 06.05.07 - 12:06 p.m. | #
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The pier, at least, will get reused when the Dome re-opens.
Inspector Sands | Homepage | 06.05.07 - 2:09 p.m. | #
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Is the red bull thing going round here?
Wow that sounded ultra dumbed down, but seriously: the red bull thing?
angel | Homepage | 06.05.07 - 7:08 p.m. | #
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Yes, the Red Bull Air Race is coming to Bugsby's Reach - the stretch of the Thames between the Dome and Greenwich Yacht Club, close to the David Beckham Academy.
According to a laminated licence application attached to the riverside railings, they plan to serve alcohol here between 10am and 4:30pm on 28th and 29th July.
I hope Quantum Cloud survives the weekend.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 06.05.07 - 10:36 p.m. | #
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Oooh that's right around my birthday!
angel | Homepage | 07.05.07 - 12:12 a.m. | #
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I took advantage of the cheap entry after 4pm. I needn't have bothered...
I guess I can tell my children I went...
flashgordonnz | 07.05.07 - 2:55 a.m. | #
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Some people did consider the dome ironic. But surely only the price tag was.
flashgordonnz | 07.05.07 - 2:59 a.m. | #
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Mr Diamond Geezer
Thanks for the "London Journeys : Around the Dome" really excellent stuff and it reminded me of Antony Gormley’s Quantum Cloud sculpture which I (and probably most others) had forgotten about. I’m now disappointed that I won’t get down and walk the route before the “entertainment hub” comes to fruition. Keep up the good work.
Simon James x
Simon James | 09.05.07 - 8:23 a.m. | #
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Diamond,
Arrived here from Tom Reynolds' blog. Pleased to read your intelligent description of this walk round the peninsula.
I am a driver on the Jubilee Line, and as such take meal-breaks at North Greenwich quite often. The traincrew facilities are entirely below ground and thus add to the already-substantial daylight-starvation for a shift-worker driving trains in tunnels. If time permits I quite often go on this walk -- sometimes the best exercise I get all week; if taken briskly it can take 25 minutes.
It's always interesting because the views change with the tides and the works ongoing.
Richard Griffin | Homepage | 12.05.07 - 9:47 p.m. | #
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What happens to the O2 centre in Finchley when there's one in Docklands? Or are they from the same organization?
David Brake | Homepage | 16.05.07 - 3:25 p.m. | #
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