Olympic Penny-Farthing

Nov 112012

Penny-Farthing on Lee Navigation towpath - click to enlarge

Penny-Farthing, Lee Navigation Canal towpath, November 2012

Tagged with: Cycling, From the Slopes of Olympus, Hackney, Stratford

Looking back through the clouds…

Small Fish, Big Pond

by Adam E. Smith
The day doesn’t really start till 6, so I usually get up at 5 to have a look around before anyone else is about. That hour is my time, when the world belongs to me because no one else is up. Except Geoff. Geoff works at the dock. I know he’s called Geoff because it says so on the door of his shack. During the day, Geoff paces alongside the dock like a linesman, talking to the people on their swanky yachts. [read more...]

A Short Journey Downriver

by Mark Sadler
Twice a day, when the tide is high, the Thames floods the broad, low-ceilinged underground channel from which the Granville emerges. During the autumn and winter, as the temperature drops, these back surges create localised fogs that linger along Upper and Lower Thames Street. The river that London buried alive rises like a ghost through the porous layers of paving to reassert its claim upon its former overground course. [read more...]