Tuesday 27 April 2010
This was a little bus
and a short route, but none the less enjoyable for that. It was our link bus (Linda, Mary and
me) to get us from Canning Town, where the 69 had brought us, and Mile End
Station, since Linda and I had a fancy to try the 205, the bus route which
passes about 20 stations: but you
know all about that already.
We boarded our bus
shortly after 11.35. There was
only one other passenger, a postal worker returning to the East London
Distribution Centre, where he was replaced by a single other passenger.
Our driver set off at
a rapid pace, along the aptly named Stephenson Street,
paralleling the
railway before going over a bridge and returning along the other side. Then we turned into the large and leafy
business park, and came to the London Gas Museum. This area must have been horrible in the late nineteenth century, when the
great Beckton Gasworks was making coal gas for most of London, and the air must
have been hard to breathe.
Soon we were over the
River Lea, with its locks and attractive bankside houses, and into Bromley by
Bow. St Andrew’s Hospital is rapidly
becoming apartments, and Devons Road DLR Station is having works to enable the
longer trains. A new community
school is going up: we wondered
what would happen to the major school building programmes we have seen across
London, after the election next week. (And now we know, but this is not the place for comment of a political nature, now it is?)
Bow Common Road brought us to Bow Common,
and the Regent’s Canal, and we had arrived at Mile End, 17 minutes after
leaving Canning Town.
Mary decided to leave us to get back to her allotment.
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