I solely had time for a brief stroll on Friday seventh April 1989, biking house furiously from the school the place I used to be instructing at midday as I had no afternoon courses, selecting up my digital camera bag and dashing to catch a practice into London.
Canning City, the place I used to be heading, was on the opposite facet of London and never then the simplest of locations to get to earlier than the DLR and Jubilee strains had been accomplished. My journey concerned a sluggish transit round North London on the road from Richmond on the North London Line to the outdated Canning City station instantly north of the A13 East India Dock Highway, subsequent to Stephenson Avenue.
In case you are not acquainted with the geography of this space, a small clip from OpenStreetMap, barely enhanced, will assist. The East India Dock Highway on this map is labelled Newham Approach, which is right here a flyover above the highway itself. The previous station I used was simply to the north of this. Pura Meals was contained in the loop which is now London Metropolis Island and there was no bridge throughout the river on the high of the bend.
A subway near the station entrance took me to the opposite facet of this busy highway, the place I had a view of Bow Creek, northern finish of its loop dominated by Pura Meals, trying throughout waste floor the place the DLR would shortly run. The flood barrier on Bow Creek turned redundant when the Thames Barrier was constructed.
I moved slowly west alongside the East India Dock Highway, stopping to take occasional photos. There was a substantial quantity of waste together with outdated tires dumped right here, however it was additionally a working industrial space, with staff vehicles parked alongside the river.
The primary enterprise on this facet of the river appeared now to be the sawmill, although I additionally photographed the signal board for Haughton Engineering, however I’m not sure whether or not they had been nonetheless in enterprise.
It appeared to me an space which cried out for some panoramic photos, and I took a set of three overlapping handheld footage – the left of the set above – intending to mix them – which again then would have concerned reducing and pasting the three collectively, however later I discovered I couldn’t fairly get them to match up. Even when it turned attainable to do that digitally I discovered I hadn’t fairly made these exactly sufficient.
It was experiences like this that led me a few years later to avoid wasting up and purchase a correct panoramic digital camera – I feel the primary one value me round a month’s wages.
I continued strolling west, the highway on a low viaduct giving me a great view of the world to the south, coming to a timber yard the place Bow Creek flowed into the world, taking place south in the direction of Orchard Place earlier than turning north to return in the direction of the East India Dock Highway the place I had taken the sooner photos.
I’ll publish in regards to the second and ultimate a part of this brief stroll later.
Tags: 1989, Bow Creek, bridges, Canning City, Essex Wharf, flood barrier, London, London Pictures, London Sawmills, Newham, peter Marshall, Pura Meals, Tower Hamlets, Wharfside Rd
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