Old Canary Wharf Pier

Feb 242014

OLD
CANARY
WHARF
PIER

Tagged with: Bermondsey, Boats, Docklands, Isle of Dogs, Matt Haynes, Rotherhithe, Smoke on the Water, Social History, Thames, Transport

Looking back through the clouds…

London Fields

by Henry Wilson
We set out after lunch, hurrying along the quiet dusty back streets of West Hampstead to the Overground station on West End Lane, just in time to squeeze onto a Stratford train. Body heat radiates through summer dresses, T-shirts, skirts and shorts in the sun-drenched carriage. A sense of expectancy and excitement rises out of the chatter and laughter; a hundred disparate journeys blend into one. [read more...]

Iain And Will Have A Cup Of Tea

by Matt Haynes
Iain stared glumly across the stained formica. “It’s like I was telling the sculptor Rachel Whiteread, Will, when I was explaining to her how Hackney’s pre-Games decontamination and realignment into a fugitive cartography of designer lock-ups and guerrilla sofa bars had created a hallucinatory Ballardian nexus of dystopian interzones and put me right off the idea of getting a cat – some of the ley lines they dug up to build the Basketball Arena had been there since the days of King Lud.” [read more...]