Lea Navigation & Olympic Web site: Saturday 1 October 2011 was a advantageous day and I determined to go early to Stratford and take a photographic stroll round Bow & Stratford Marsh, earlier than a gathering on the View Tube on the Greenway overlooking the Olympic web site.
I took the Jubilee Line to Stratford after which walked over the footbridge resulting in the Carpenters Property after which on to Stratford Excessive Avenue. An excessive amount of new constructing was going down there, together with a brand new bridge to hold the Olympic crowds throughout the busy highway on a route from West Ham station alongside the Greenway. The bridge was demolished shortly after the video games ended.
This part of the Greenway – the trail on high of Bazalgette’s Northern Outfall Sewer rebranded within the Nineties – was closed off by fences and I saved on strolling down the Excessive Avenue. A number of yards alongside was one of many few remaining business websites, although by then derelict and on the market. It was demolished and the location flattened for the Video games, although it was solely 5 years later than penthouses on the brand new block right here had been provided on the market.
A number of yards off the Excessive Avenue was Metropolis Mill Lock, now behind a row of flats. I continued on to the Lea Navigation. The economic websites on the Excessive Avenue had now been cleared and there have been now big promoting constructions.
I had come primarily with the intention of constructing panoramic photographs, however these don’t show nicely on this weblog, however you may see them bigger on My London Diary. A footway now carries the towpath underneath the Bow Flyover and the Excessive Avenue after which throughout the canal the place the towpath continues on the alternative financial institution.
I made far too many photos round this a part of the canal earlier than I might drag myself away, though the sky was not at its greatest for panoramic photographs and I’d have prefered extra distinct clouds slightly than the big areas of blue. Solely the primary part of Cook dinner’s Street was nonetheless open, however I might stroll alongside beside St Thomas’s Creek to Marshgate Lane after which make my solution to the brilliant yellow View Tube.
Right here I used to be considered one of 5 photographers collaborating in what was billed as a ‘Salon de Refuse Olympique‘, exhibiting our creative responses to the realm. It was attention-grabbing to see the very completely different work that the 5 of us offered. You may learn extra about this in a publish printed right here two days after the occasion in 2011, Northern Outfall Sewer 1990, 2005, 2010… which incorporates the three photos I contributed for a forthcoming e book in addition to a prolonged textual content primarily based on my presentation.
The Olympics have definitely modified this space, and the adjustments which had been exhibiting again in 2011 have continued. Many extra photos – each panoramic and regular side ration – in my publish on My London Diary at Lea Navigation & Olympic Web site.
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