tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37357485658109826272024-03-16T11:52:25.374-07:00London buses one bus at a time: the returnThe Buses: it is better to travel hopefully...http://www.blogger.com/profile/00890241468975868659noreply@blogger.comBlogger920125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3735748565810982627.post-88321305286640191932020-07-22T14:36:00.000-07:002020-07-22T14:36:53.913-07:00More elderly exercise<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wednesday 22 July 2020</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today's sunny outing began with a pause to photograph the extraordinary bungalow being built along St Pancras way. It may not be easy to make out from my little photos, but it is squished between the cycle track and the canal tow path, up against an older development of apartments. The trees in the plot have TPOs so it's even more constricted than it looks. I suppose the planning permission was Camden helping to sort the housing crisis. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a contrast, here is 65 Agar Grove, which has stood empty since (at least) 1996. As you can see, it's hardly a bustling work site now. But let us pedal on a bit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I crossed Camden High Street and headed up Delancey Street, where Dylan Thomas once lived: I expect the area was not as desirable back then. The plan was to ride round the north side of Regents Park in order to see (and photograph) the giraffes, the only animals you can watch without going into the Zoo. But they were not showing off today, possibly because the Zoo has reopened, and so there were parked cars all along this bit of the Outer Circle, and lots of people entering the Zoo (in an orderly and socially distanced way, of course.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The mosque was looking attractive in the sunshine. It's easy to get into Baker Street from the Park, and the Volunteer Pub has lovely hanging baskets. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No time to take more photos, however, as there is lots of traffic to negotiate and avoid. Two months ago I fantasised that people would so enjoy the clean air and the quiet that they would happily give up their cars. All that is left is a hollow laugh. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First, there's the Wellington Arch, with Victory on her chariot above it, the equestrian statue of the Duke which was planned, proving too heavy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Royal Artillery memorial is the work of Charles Sargent Jagger, and is noted as a sculpture as much as anything else. And the set is made up with the New Zealand Memorial.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the most recent, with its metal pillars, leaning forward like warriors at the Haka, topped with the stars of the Southern Cross.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Green Park was looking particularly green and lovely: I'm sure you know that it was designed for grazing by the cows which provided fresh milk for Londoners able to afford to send their servants out to the milk maids. That's why this is the Park without flower beds.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next, I pedalled up the Charing Cross Road, and the Tottenham Court Road, with lots of motor traffic, to get home via Torrington Place and Tavistock Place, and Cartwright Gardens. The Euston Road was effectively a long traffic queue, made more acute by the new cycle lanes on either side.</span><br />
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The Buses: it is better to travel hopefully...http://www.blogger.com/profile/00890241468975868659noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3735748565810982627.post-38618735705916491812020-06-04T07:49:00.000-07:002020-07-22T13:22:59.133-07:00Not the buses: elderly exercise instead<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wednesday 3 June 2020 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Linda and I have not been on a bus for months, and we feel it may be many more months before we do. So here instead is the story of today's cycle ride: about an hour as recommended by our Great Leader for people in their seventies without underlying health issues.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGUiveSUQ3nNoKmZBrUYS19AayFYlHO_2QsE3eT7uD-9FtyQ4QffNJAnAQhepD3jMq3Ql8hoHC42p21nN3efz0o3WS5fpEqDOWHUvAOODlRaRo5T1DY8grEKxdiVjfAHV4-DrtNZBk4jQ/s1600/IMG_9835.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGUiveSUQ3nNoKmZBrUYS19AayFYlHO_2QsE3eT7uD-9FtyQ4QffNJAnAQhepD3jMq3Ql8hoHC42p21nN3efz0o3WS5fpEqDOWHUvAOODlRaRo5T1DY8grEKxdiVjfAHV4-DrtNZBk4jQ/s200/IMG_9835.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the start of Hemingford Road there are 'works' which made easy to turn left and then right, to pass the attractive terraces of Barnsbury and reach the busy Pentonville Road, where traffic lights allow you a safe crossing into Amwell Street.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Still heading downhill, you reach Farringdon Street, and turn right, with glimpses of London Landmarks old and new. The gradient is still friendly, of course, because you are on your way down the valley of the River Fleet, as crossed by the Holborn Viaduct.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The traffic lights get cyclists safely over Ludgate Circus, and down to Blackfriars Bridge, where I turned right, leaving C6 to join CS3, the East-West Superhighway. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the way down, John Carpenter Street is on the right, with the jolly 1983 sculpture, entitled 'Taxi!' Not many people get to see it, I imagine, as it's rather a dead end for pedestrians.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is an awful lot to look at along here; let me reassure you that I got off my bike to take the photos. Here is one of the bases for the RNLI, saving the lives of silly people who imagine that the tidal Thames is a safe playground; also a plaque for Walter Besant, one of those prolific Victorian writers who have vanished from shelves if not from walls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The route is now passing the back of the Ministry of Defence, so there are lots of service memorials: the RAF Eagle is on the river side, and across the road is the Fleet Air Arm Memorial, rather oddly (I think) depicting Daedalus, whose son tested (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with disastrous results)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> the wings he had invented. Also in the river side is the more recent Battle of Britain Memorial.</span><br />
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The Buses: it is better to travel hopefully...http://www.blogger.com/profile/00890241468975868659noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3735748565810982627.post-61467805324595680452020-04-21T08:58:00.005-07:002020-04-21T08:58:34.426-07:00The Number 87 Onwards <br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Clearly Linda & Jo will not be
back on the buses for some time to come, and while we do have higher route
numbers ridden, written and ready to go it seems wrong to abandon the Project
at this stage. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">While Jo is happily cycling round a traffic-reduced
and much less polluted London, Linda is very much locked in with a
vulnerable,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>needs to be shielded<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>partner, so has not left the house for four
weeks. Jo assures her that Regent Street is still there. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">However the real point of this is to
say how sorry we have been to hear about the death of several London bus
drivers and their garage colleagues. It has always struck us that they are very
much unsung heroes doing (even under normal circumstances) daily battle with
traffic jams, irate commuters, diversions, troublesome passengers, lost
tourists, buggy vs wheelchair clashes – and that’s only during the day. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">If lucky they have a 2 minute break
at the turn-around point. It never seems to be a very healthy job – much
concentration and patience required and little opportunity to exercise or eat
healthily – but on they go keeping to their heavily monitored time-tables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then of course there are all those germs that
the passengers pass around, again even under normal circumstances. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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so many drivers have been killed by this terrible virus, as yet without cure or
prevention, so we feel we should say not only thanks for all the safe journeys
we have made but thanks to those drivers keeping going, and our heartfelt condolences
for the families and colleagues of those who have not made it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br />London Buses One Bus at a Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837511103033911123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3735748565810982627.post-72608491897734296742020-03-11T10:19:00.000-07:002020-03-12T02:39:07.798-07:00The Number 87 Route<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thursday 28 March 2019</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZrLejHnOLlm0vv7FswXxRPPXApMoeA_taK5NmLTlNkQvMStiGdxFYkmjLdCfXPen8dzdMM0OUsBLhDtgMQUTYRkXj0BHj13ejjCl-LxI5yLosLq_WOedqomDm7ljeTA4FllB20j7aB9g/s1600/IMG_7763.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZrLejHnOLlm0vv7FswXxRPPXApMoeA_taK5NmLTlNkQvMStiGdxFYkmjLdCfXPen8dzdMM0OUsBLhDtgMQUTYRkXj0BHj13ejjCl-LxI5yLosLq_WOedqomDm7ljeTA4FllB20j7aB9g/s200/IMG_7763.jpg" width="150" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Past Charing Cross Station and its Eleanor Cross, and we came to </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Trafalgar Square, where we turned left, to travel down the tourist hotspot that is Whitehall. Among the many sights are the <a href="http://collections.soane.org/drawings?ci_search_type=ARCI&mi_search_type=adv&sort=7&tn=Drawings&t=SCHEME793">Adam screen</a> in front of the Admiralty (I had suggested to Linda that it was Wren.... Doh), and the Horseguards. It was the <a href="https://www.army.mod.uk/who-we-are/corps-regiments-and-units/royal-armoured-corps/household-cavalry/">Blues and Royal </a>who were mounting guard (no, I did not recognise them, I looked them up when I got home) . We did think that the contrast between sleek horses on a London pavement (guarded by armed police, by the way) and tanks and armoured cars in nasty parts of the world was striking</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNmoKb2sCUCPgWuvYKIVMlNqGhnybuheO1MXrV6ZVcsWf9opshRIazHLKHaeh9arA3IdppX6g2_VZZ5_CbKmo19iHFMToXlGibLVvbjQ9BUz9uTbo906OOt_GBR2Zuz_x-hwFN5mmt0cI/s1600/IMG_7767.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNmoKb2sCUCPgWuvYKIVMlNqGhnybuheO1MXrV6ZVcsWf9opshRIazHLKHaeh9arA3IdppX6g2_VZZ5_CbKmo19iHFMToXlGibLVvbjQ9BUz9uTbo906OOt_GBR2Zuz_x-hwFN5mmt0cI/s200/IMG_7767.jpg" width="150" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then we came to three leaders of the Second World War, Slim, Alanbrooke and Montgomery, on one side of the road, while the other was occupied by the Foreign Office and the treasury. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These buildings, presumably full of agitated public servants preparing for who knows what<span style="color: red;">*</span>, hardly advertise themselves. They could learn from John Lewis and Next about branding.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">*by the time you read this, we shall know, I suppose.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdomcpQhINWMWtHDtoa9BfS0-RcEQu4bVLgetJCKU-KKeJm97Rtyzw8ilCv2FmZ1Du-fKJlcZfkHnyWA6FhgsdFmkgzBHTZA486oOEj1kySd5lXiZHEZSrSGoHcEkUy5UVTxkUK362CaI/s1600/IMG_7781.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdomcpQhINWMWtHDtoa9BfS0-RcEQu4bVLgetJCKU-KKeJm97Rtyzw8ilCv2FmZ1Du-fKJlcZfkHnyWA6FhgsdFmkgzBHTZA486oOEj1kySd5lXiZHEZSrSGoHcEkUy5UVTxkUK362CaI/s200/IMG_7781.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Straight alongside the river, we passed a pleasant playground, as well as Tate Britain, as well as the derisory blue paint which denotes the so-called Superhighway 8. Then we turned left to cross Vauxhall Bridge. This was only the third turn we had made since leaving Aldwych, by the way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We passed what Linda remembered as a post-16 Educational establishment, but a charming gentleman overheard her and told us it was now closed. It appears to be a private gym now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next we came past the <a href="https://www.bac.org.uk/">Battersea Arts Centre</a>, which continues to serve its community despite all difficulties. And the Falcon Pub, named for the <a href="http://www.londonslostrivers.com/falcon-brook.html">Falcon Brook</a>, as well as boasting the longest bar in the world, is also thriving as far as we could see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now we came to Wandsworth Common and turned left (the first turn since Vauxhall Bus Station) to head into Wandsworth and pass the enormous Town Hall, before turning into Wandsworth Plain, where this route ends, at 11.00.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We had had a sunny and interesting ride, through an area which is changing beyond all imaginings. Given that property prices in London are falling quarter by quarter, we wonder how many of these apartments will be occupied.</span><br />
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The Buses: it is better to travel hopefully...http://www.blogger.com/profile/00890241468975868659noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3735748565810982627.post-78682572631822748682020-03-08T04:08:00.000-07:002020-03-08T04:08:00.678-07:00The Number 86 Route<br />
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last week as we met (unusually) for a Thursday outing. Almost the biggest
thrill was the journey from Liverpool Street to Romford which was on a brand
new TFL train (formerly C2C?) with the new upholstery colours designed for the
Elizabeth Line, and of course walk-through carriages. It was a smooth and quiet trip and we did
remember where all the buses stop and lo! an 86 drew up. Essentially we retraced our route passing most
of the stations we had come through on the train. Please admire the Wallace Sewell moquette –
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We were upstairs and the bus was pretty empty until Ilford where it filled up
and stayed busy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bus, like all Romford
ones, makes its way round to the shopping centre, or at least one of them, and
the market (which for us is always a bit of a unicorn as we’ve never actually
seen it functioning). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are many
multi story car parks, some used, some looking a bit derelict – but that might
just have been the weather which was NOT mythical but biblical. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Brewery complex includes entertainments
(and car parks) and then we were heading out back south to inner London. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There has been much new building in Romford,
noticeable from 10 years ago and visible from the train too – and with improved
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<br />The next landmark seemed to be Romford (now
Coral) Greyhound Stadium (dog racing being a south and east London specialty)
– at least if you are going to bet let it be on something you can see happening
in front of you as opposed to endless web sites. It is no coincidence that the richest woman in
the UK owns a betting site/ shops, and many folk are rendered the poorer through
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<span lang="EN-GB">I had spotted a newish block called St
Edward’s Court and then came the announcement for </span><a href="http://www.stedwardsacademy.co.uk/the-history-of-st-edwards/">St Edwards Academy</a>, so it is
no surprise to find out that the reason St Edward aka Edward the Confessor is a
local hero is down to his having had a country residence at Havering atte Bower
(after which the whole borough is named) By now we were nearly in Chadwell Heath and
as far as we could see (NOT very far) there were school playing fields on one
side and heath on the other.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">There are small clusters of shops along the
way and several closed pubs – the White Horse looking dead, desolate and
vandalised so quite an eyesore. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not so
dead is the <i>Eva Hart</i> pub, named for a local resident who survived the ‘Titanic’
sinking. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nearly next door was Mapson’s,
an old fashioned family jewellers with a ghost sign dating back to an earlier
generation but sadly the weather meant we had no possibility of capturing the
match.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Goodmayes to Seven Kings was a mixture, from
what we could see (and I include several total mystery photos), of smaller
local shops and a huge 24-hour Tesco’s which is cited as one of the main
employers for this area. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The name has no
royal connections but a modern version of something Saxon., which is a deal
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<span lang="EN-GB">Seven Kings once had a huge Gin palace
called <i> </i><a href="http://www.shadyoldlady.com/location.php?loc=581">The Cauliflower</a>
which looked very derelict but seemingly only since 2018 when it was destroyed
by a </span><a href="https://pubwiki.co.uk/EssexPubs/Ilford/cauli.shtml">fire</a>. Anyone who has read VS Naipaul’s <i>‘A House for Mr. Biswas’ </i>will think
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Havelock</i> pub – strange to keep the pub’s name of the general who ordered the
slaughter of so many Indian soldiers at the 1<sup>st</sup> war of Independence in
an area whose population includes Indians? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Calling it <i>the Cauliflower </i>would be more
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through Ilford relatively smoothly, taking on lots of passengers and passing the Library with its excellent museum. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then the slowness began – there were
successive road works but of course with the weather so bad no one working on
them and Jo managed to capture at least two violations of the cycle lanes plus
the fact the bus lane only worked for the early rush hours.</span></div>
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former pub the Pidgeon had escaped dereliction by being converted to a Tescos.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Stratford had begun its transformation just
before we started project 1 (2009) and the building work is still going – we passed
a whole block being demolished presumably to be turned into yet more flats? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The University of East London has some of its campus
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 84 used to go from Barnet to St Albans, and still does, but it is no longer a London bus and so falls outside the parameters of this project. So here we were, on a very nasty wet day, boarding the 85 at </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11.40</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> It leaves from the little warren of streets around Putney Bridge station, and had to wiggle round a huge tow truck before reaching the dripping customers outside the station.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp-fKwUP7OwBdoODKs8KUNgY5_tfjFPCDC1YzH5Eanq8URH2ksPSaMuGfCuARAxg_C5YVTcULLNEG-mlGoPyyF-LEhJnEG8_ru3rlQWwdOBD6EXb2bKkhlDMjJrt8Y0PV7vqvz0qPrR-Y/s1600/IMG_9806.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp-fKwUP7OwBdoODKs8KUNgY5_tfjFPCDC1YzH5Eanq8URH2ksPSaMuGfCuARAxg_C5YVTcULLNEG-mlGoPyyF-LEhJnEG8_ru3rlQWwdOBD6EXb2bKkhlDMjJrt8Y0PV7vqvz0qPrR-Y/s200/IMG_9806.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still, enough of this wingeing, and on with our soggy trip, through Putney and therefore in Wandsworth, and passing Putney Railway Station. There can't be many areas with their names on stations both sides side of the river</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We travelled down through Roehampton, alongside residential areas, and Putney Common. I can only hope that you regard Linda's valiant attempts at photography as 'Turneresque'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We noted that several of the bus shelters had solar panels on their roofs, not that these would have done much good on a day like today, and we also came past the extensive Happy Valley Cemetery. We had been reading about the possibility of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/16/human-composting-could-be-the-future-of-deathcare">composting our bodies</a>, but it's a long way to Seattle, so we have to hope that things have changed before we need the facility.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next event was the little circuit that buses do to serve the enormous A3 Asda, and then we trundled on to cross the <a href="https://www.londonslostrivers.com/beverley-brook.html">Beverley Brook</a> and several of the campuses of Kingston University.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then we reached Kingston Hospital, and for the first time since Putney High Street were slowed by traffic. This gave us time to notice that we were passing the UK HQ of <a href="https://www.vsointernational.org/">VSO</a>, before we swept past the Fairfield Bus Station to wiggle round the High Street, and over the <a href="https://www.londonslostrivers.com/hogsmill-river.html">Hogsmill River</a>. Whatever else might have been wrong with today's trip, one can't deny the pleasure of going over two of London's small rivers, as well as the big one.</span><br />
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The Buses: it is better to travel hopefully...http://www.blogger.com/profile/00890241468975868659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3735748565810982627.post-31484654679169148312020-02-14T09:23:00.000-08:002020-02-14T09:23:24.318-08:00The Number 83 Route<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">14 February 2020</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today was a pleasant two bus trip from Alperton to Golders Green and then on to Edgware, so it took in 3 tube stations. But, as you know, we prefer to be on the road rather than under ground. By the way, there is no 82 route, which is why we were on an 83 at about 9.55. Last time we were in Alperton, it was mainly warehouses and workshops. Now it's mainly apartments.</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNj5GdJOp-iqCyB72GP83PjfD2x9oKQJ5HERDLE2p32sb2mD1-NqahuAjkAfCz1SJRxC67I1mc7oUySSagxLNZSgYDlxrGddWTSiZJgX1CvphLpV46oAynbKpDWUXA9vVtBj1AewLtLb4/s1600/IMG_9746.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNj5GdJOp-iqCyB72GP83PjfD2x9oKQJ5HERDLE2p32sb2mD1-NqahuAjkAfCz1SJRxC67I1mc7oUySSagxLNZSgYDlxrGddWTSiZJgX1CvphLpV46oAynbKpDWUXA9vVtBj1AewLtLb4/s200/IMG_9746.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We immediately came to the beautiful <a href="http://londonmandir.baps.org/">Shri Swaminarayan Mandir</a> and swept past it, through the very Asian shops and roadside banners of this part of London, towards Wembley. So many new blocks of flats are being built here that I have concerns for the utilities that underpin them. I assume 'luxury' in a description of a dwelling means one bathroom per person, which must put quite a strain on water and waste services.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkNqfavIxAnIgG7ggORX2p_5bW6ICAR4UP53FpORM7N9gbNhdQXhhp4vsqBOEHjo6iGQSKGQNVrwL7YHZDz1xvbpOZ63IttrUaG2iIavWHWxI1tqIqVXGWxsE6WSq_z9kZ_UyySjKvW48/s1600/IMG_9756.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkNqfavIxAnIgG7ggORX2p_5bW6ICAR4UP53FpORM7N9gbNhdQXhhp4vsqBOEHjo6iGQSKGQNVrwL7YHZDz1xvbpOZ63IttrUaG2iIavWHWxI1tqIqVXGWxsE6WSq_z9kZ_UyySjKvW48/s200/IMG_9756.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Al Pasha Supermarket was adorned with a picture of a man in a Fez, and I wondered if this was a portrait of Attaturk, the Father of Modern Turkey, but a fez and a moustache are not really sufficient clues for an identification. We glimpsed the Wembley Arch in the distance, but were more surprised by the name 'Fatburger' for an eatery. We were also interested in the banners that advertised Yeh Hai Chahatein, which proves to be a soap series on Star Plus of which you can watch a sample <a href="https://desiserialstv.su/yeh-hai-chahatein-14th-february-2020-episode-update/">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Again, there were those yellow signs, which point to new-build estates, on every lamp post. When we passed a closed business labelled Japarts, I thought that the market for Japanese art had collapsed in t his area: but it proves to have been J A Parts which sold bits for motor cars.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We turned left and uphill to pass the Welsh Harp Boat centre though we did not glimpse the water. The trees had been fiercely pollarded; it always amazes us that they don't seem to mind such draconian haircuts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once we were over the North Circular, we came to Hendon Central Station. The former cinema which had become a Virgin Active Gym has now morphed into a Nuffield Health gym.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were also interested to see a shop front for that remarkable organisation, <i>Jews for Jesus</i>. Remarkable because, as Swami Vivekananda said, 'See Christ and you are a Christian'; but I suppose the social and community ties of the Jewish faith still holds people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The curving 1920s shopping parade brought us to the Clock war memorial roundabout, and to the end of this trip in Golders Green Station yard, after just about an hour.</span><br />
The Buses: it is better to travel hopefully...http://www.blogger.com/profile/00890241468975868659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3735748565810982627.post-20483048352555049552020-02-03T02:11:00.002-08:002020-02-03T02:11:16.658-08:00The Number 81 Route<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">With a historic departure from the EU
lurking later today we tried not to be too depressed on this 3-bus winter’s
day… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had started in White City and
been through Uxbridge to arrive in Hounslow to find the departure bus stop (no
passengers allowed in the horrid Hounslow Bus station ) in the same place by
the lovely fruit and vegetable stall, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>remembered<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>from years ago, which of course at this time of year is mostly full of
exotic imports.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">But I digress. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our route out of Hounslow mirrored our route
in so we had our camera poised to snap not just the rather forbidding Treaty Centre
but the patch of soggy grass hosting a series of fairground attractions
including nicely painted roundabouts – perhaps they are waiting for a sunny day
to offer rides as they looked too well preserved to be abandoned. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also hereabouts was Carpatica Cuisine, which
offers ‘meat-centric traditional Romanian cuisine in a family setting’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.hounslow.gov.uk/info/20158/customer_services/1979/weve_now_moved_to_hounslow_house">Hounslow House</a>
looked very new and shiny and is indeed a bringing together of civic services, leaving
the old council offices for redevelopment and housing , so hopefully Hounslow’s
plans will benefit the community. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The 81, like many other routes, follows the
Bath Road up to West Hounslow station – pausing long enough to take on many
passengers and give time to admire the station façade: a Charles Holden
collaboration in Portland Stone.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The next stretch of the Bath Road is dual
carriageway and bordered first by some shops but then a series of hotels and
accommodation suites – for travellers with early/late or complex flights we
imagine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bright neon of Moxy (though
we read it as Maxy) proves to be low budget Marriott so yet more Heathrow friendly
accommodation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Needless to say the
planes were coming low at a very steady rate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">At one of the major crossroads we noted
that three of the four corners retained the original cupola rooves that the
designer of the shopping parades had added in a stylistic flourish. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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suddenly there was a field of cows, then one of a cereal crop – such contrasts
within 2 bus stops!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We crossed over into Hillingdon Borough and
then left the busy trunk roads behind to become the only TFL bus route through
a series of villages starting with Cranford, then Longford with its village
pump and older cottages. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have included
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they are, and where presumably any proposed third runway would go?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">There were few passengers boarding but
speed was restricted due to the narrow winding village streets, so the driver
could slow for running passengers, which he did more than once. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The route crosses both motorways and small
streams; not far off are the reservoirs which must be more than full after what
seems like non-stop rain since October. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although this is as noted the only<u> TFL</u>
route in these parts, we noticed from a bus stop that Slough has ‘borrowed’ the
Number 10 (discontinued by TFL, though in a very different part of London).</span></div>
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and some on board – perhaps Upton Park Grammar and St Bernard’s finish a t
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residential so I am not sure where the large and famous Slough Industrial
estate might be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Slough of course is
famous, partly as the location of ‘The Office’ and before that for the Betjman
poem invoking – well – bombs to fall. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
seems to me on re-reading </span><a href="http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/intuition/Slough.html">the poem</a> that Betjman was an arch snob: nowadays MANY
people would be grateful for a home for £97 down payment and 2/6 (12½p) a week thereafter,
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the developers haven’t half made their presence felt and there are major town
centre </span><a href="https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/property/3-billion-plan-completely-transform-17505886" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">changes afoot</a><span lang="EN-GB"> to include both residential and retail </span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span> (though who would want to build retail with failing shops and closing
department stores?). The bus did a kind
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station and while Jo was wrangling her passes and I realising I had left my
purse at home the railway official opined we could travel free into London provided
we didn’t take the ‘green train’ (GWR) but the mauve one aka the Elizabeth line
which now seems to run every 15 minutes through to Paddington. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">At this point I will say that I was given a
pair of London Transport Museum gift shop Elizabeth line socks for Christmas
which I vowed I would not wear until I could ride the eponymous line so there
were mutterings of ‘you can get your socks out now’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However
we were in something of a hurry and hungry (never a good combination) and so
boarded the GWR train prepared to pay the difference to West Drayton. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At Hayes & Harlington our train drew
alongside an actual moving, with passengers, Elizabeth Line train and very
pretty it was too, but for now the socks stay in storage…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />London Buses One Bus at a Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837511103033911123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3735748565810982627.post-10062646902119198612020-01-24T10:49:00.000-08:002020-01-24T10:49:34.222-08:00The Number 80 Route<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Friday 24 January 2020</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin4JsbRJKzen2s6QOXovFXx4cAXQL1xA331IGIDgBSLF5tsJMgzxAdVTU3NdIkSTt54T5wSHHhYvtU4tOarrCwu8qXeB739TjVdewSdNP15HNjeGh1Fla1MPdEmnfTjm5Mq3us0uHXMpw/s1600/IMG_9650.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin4JsbRJKzen2s6QOXovFXx4cAXQL1xA331IGIDgBSLF5tsJMgzxAdVTU3NdIkSTt54T5wSHHhYvtU4tOarrCwu8qXeB739TjVdewSdNP15HNjeGh1Fla1MPdEmnfTjm5Mq3us0uHXMpw/s200/IMG_9650.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If I am to be honest, which I am, this was not the most enjoyable trip we have ever done. It started badly with our inability to find Reynolds Close, which was where the 80 departs, to make its way to the clutch of prisons at Belmont and High Down. Indeed, had it not been for the friendly people mending motorcycles at <a href="https://www.stoppiesmotorcycles.co.uk/workshop-services/">Stoppies</a>, we might still be wandering vainly around Hackbridge. But we arrived eventually at the bus stop in the dank weather, to discover that our bus was a single decker. Salt was later rubbed into our wounds as we saw double decker 80s heading in the opposite direction. Still, we were on board by 11.00 am, and travelling straight through residential areas, mostly with hardened front gardens.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGcFu8dxYq1s26QP0SXvBZaRTpRvoIFotPs_JHeTYsaIKn9z4nPlHaxV2QeXC9FlOY8eEWHOcI7MKTa1xOih9nwn3JsYmiXItXTpKiREjnJ_R_-eHFuM9tLfJjtdl4Xmh-xjZYlcBmEew/s1600/IMG_9654.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGcFu8dxYq1s26QP0SXvBZaRTpRvoIFotPs_JHeTYsaIKn9z4nPlHaxV2QeXC9FlOY8eEWHOcI7MKTa1xOih9nwn3JsYmiXItXTpKiREjnJ_R_-eHFuM9tLfJjtdl4Xmh-xjZYlcBmEew/s200/IMG_9654.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The houses were of varying sizes and periods, though mostly, we thought, 20th century rather than earlier or later. We did see one repossessed house (boarded up and 'for sale by auction') but otherwise it all looked fairly prosperous. Though we did agree that the bus would be essential for even minimal shopping. The first shops we came to were in Green Wryther, where we noted a barbers called 'a Clip round the Ear'. Otherwise, there was little to look at till we reached the shops and station of Morden. The borough of Merton has a lot of (formerly?) social housing, known as the St Helier Estate.</span><br />
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Sutton Bus Garage was a reminder of the previous project, though this is our first visit here this time. Then we came into Sutton itself, with amazing amounts of newly built blocks of flats. And there are due to be more: Helena House, a former office block, is due for demolition once the planning us sorted out.<br />
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We saw that the borough still has its Christmas decorations up, though not lit up. Perhaps they will be left all year as an economy measure.<br />
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Now the route takes you through the bit of Sutton where the bus stops are all lay-bys, past the old Court House. We also spotted the Cock and Bull Pub, and Eagle House School, a branch of the autism specialists we have noted near Clapham.<br />
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As we came out of town, we passed Sutton Hospital, which looked pretty unloved to us and not nearly as smart as St Helier Hospital, but is clearly at the heart of some quite <a href="https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/18121516.sutton-preferred-choice-new-hospital-following-500million-pledge/">controversial plans</a>.<br />
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The Buses: it is better to travel hopefully...http://www.blogger.com/profile/00890241468975868659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3735748565810982627.post-3714512082360290532020-01-21T01:14:00.000-08:002020-01-21T01:16:30.893-08:00The Number 79 Route<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thursday 11 April 2019</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Passing St Laurence's Church, the parish church of Little Stanmore, we came to Canon's park, and then to Canon's Park Station and then turned left along Honeypot Lane, crossing the Edgware Brook, which flows into the Silk Stream I had seen earlier, if 'flow' is the right word for this little brook.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We came to the Queensbury Circle, with many DIY and tile outlets, and did a circuit to get us near to Queensbury Station before heading on towards the Queensbury Morrisons, which proved to be the destination of my acquaintance in the wheel chair. He told me that on one occasion a woman with a buggy had said 'well, disabled people bring it on themselves', I suppose implying (a) that he had amputated his left leg himself for fun and (b) that children in buggies were some sort of random event.</span><br />
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back street route from Nunhead station this Journey started a whole hour later
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waiting to board the 78 bus. This route does not pass the excellent,</span><a href="https://www.themodernhouse.com/past-sales/pioneer-centre/">now restored</a> Pioneer Centre but those and other flats are doubtless the reason a bus route penetrates to
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almshouses remain and at the other </span><a href="https://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/property-news/buying/new-homes/new-zone-2-homes-alongside-nunhead-green-set-to-launch-later-this-year-a122541.html">the redevelopment</a> seems to have been
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Rye quite smartly and then runs into what is a 14 months massive road closure –
not only is there deep digging and I hope both gas and water mains replacement
but also some of the older buildings are taking the opportunity to have a face
lift. There is no access so all the buses go round the back of the High Street
– in some ways this is quicker as less risk of random shoppers toppling into
the road with their overloaded trolleys, especially towards the weekend . Not
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which the Mountview Theatre is almost complete, having moved down from the
lofty heights of Highgate. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So good that
Peckham will have access to a purpose built theatre space, offering teaching
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clone it heads right in order to serve the many differently aged blocks of
social housing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There have been
improvements here since we </span><a href="http://londonbusesonebusatatime.blogspot.com/2010/06/number-78-route.html">last</a> came round </div>
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decker it often keeps to lesser roads so after a few metres along the Old Kent
Road it turns right at the big Tesco’s and heads down Dunton Road where they
seemed to be building a hotel.</span></div>
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was quite slow, possibly as the streets are narrow but still well used – we
passed <a href="http://www.exploringsouthwark.co.uk/bermondsey-spa-gardens/4591465490">Bermondsey Spa Gardens</a>
which do indeed commemorate a once nearby Spa, developed to rival the more
famous (and ultimately more accessible) Vauxhall Gardens. The current Spa
Gardens prosaically date from bomb clearance in 1954 but have been revamped,
along with much of Bermondsey, which we could see as we passed yet more Sales
Suites .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(At one point before
re-starting the Bus project we had thought we might try our hand at visiting the
various show flats to view in London but sadly many require more serious
punters than a couple of ‘day trippers’.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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how scary it was walking across the glass platforms up on the </span><a href="http://londonbusesonebusatatime.blogspot.com/2017/01/tower-bridge-experience.html">Bridge Experience</a>.</div>
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deck by a young couple who got justifiably excited as we crossed the bridge and
just as delighted as we went alongside the full length of the Tower of London,
with a good view into the moat . The gutters were replaced in Victoria’s time
said Jo, spotting her insignia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our
‘Museum’ visit had coincided with the Poppy Display and ever since the moat has
looked strangely empty. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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there in its time and its now lots of shiny flats…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After some lesser known corners of the City
/Tower Hamlets borders we were back along Broadgate, bustling with folk this lunchtime,
and then round some more wriggles to the left into Shoreditch and the final
resting place in Curtain Road.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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heart of the City in 55 minutes, rather less time than you might expect. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Waterloo so we cut through the station, using the free facilities on the way,
and located the T Bus stop (which I would have called slip road to South Bank
rather than Waterloo Station. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was
a very muddy dusty bus waiting and when a much cleaner looking one drew up
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clear Waterloo, passing the Imax with the creepers gaining ever more of a hold
on the circular cinema. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More venerable
buildings look over the circulating traffic: the once Royal Waterloo Hospital
for Children & Women, and St John’s Church . <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More building on central plots is evident when
you pass the Park Plaza hotel after scooting along York Road, where the Belvedere
Gardens development may offer stunning views to the front (balconies overlooking
the Thames and the Eye) but from the back have a rather oppressive impact on
the road. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Some of this development was previously the
UK headquarters of Shell, while the hotel next door was once County Hall – as
the bus stop is still known. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Opposite is
another <a href="https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/generallyingin.html">former hospital </a>
whose history is well documented here and which is now also a hotel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hospitals and have not been turned into hospitality centres. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>St Thomas’s has a long history in London and the </span><a href="http://londonbusesonebusatatime.blogspot.com/2015/01/florence-nightingale-museum.html">Florence Nightingale Museum</a> is worth visiting. </div>
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building slowed the traffic somewhat so we coasted slowly round Lambeth Palace
and the adjacent Garden Museum, <a href="http://londonbusesonebusatatime.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-garden-museum.html">Garden Museum </a>
which I believe has had a makeover since we visited. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We believe the pineapples atop the supports
for Vauxhall Bridge are there to remember MR Tradescant who imported many new
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afoot for the listed building which was the former HQ of the London Fire
Brigade but it all looked deserted today?</span></div>
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‘Above the Stag’ for which she had been filing programmes but before we could
take any photos the bus had started its tour of Vauxhall – in order to enter and
exit the bus station in the correct direction the 77 does a complete circuit of
the unlovely (and difficult to navigate) Vauxhall one-way system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even there we gained few additional
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here for about 43 years is part of a huge regeneration project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rehousing of Flower Market, down the road
from the vegetables, the relocation of the American Embassy (hence housing
called Embassy Gardens) and finally the transformation of Battersea Power
Station have all made Nine Elms an extensive building site but today’s excitement
was to spot Nine Elms (tube) station, now nearly complete. '<i>What line is that
one?' said Jo –' the extended Northern'</i>, I answered, which looks to be a deal more
ready to go than the Elizabeth Line, although of course only it consists of two
stops – this and Battersea Power Station, though there could be plans to link
into Clapham Junction.</span></div>
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social housing: Lansdowne Green and the even larger Springfield Estate, both
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<span lang="EN-GB">examples of the grand scale and aspirational ideals of the then
London County Council building homes for families. There are a few shops at
this point but the numbers increase as we approach Clapham Junction; the
Battersea Arts centre continues in the pretty former Town Hall and was showing
‘Goldilocks and the Three Musketeers’ a novel mash-up? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clustered around are<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>more community facilities from chapels to police, and a generous sprinkling of pubs up to including the Falcon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to get off before the 77 turns left down St John’s Road briefly – we wondered
how long this branch of Debenhams on the corner was going to survive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wandsworth workers were up on their mini
cherry pickers removing the Christmas decorations so we squeezed past and right
up Battersea Rise, always a slow ride as a narrow stretch of road that is both
the A3 and the South Circular – ouch. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the only route parallel to the railway, which is at first visible but then less
so, for a long stretch past the more open area of Wandsworth Common . A stop
named for Windmill Road led me to find out whether a mill remains – it was
built as a pump for the railway which runs in quite a deep cutting and
presumably was prone to flooding,</span> which must still be a risk for this busy
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Earlsfield Road which is bordered by sizeable Edwardian homes with never a
handy shop for the residents. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A couple
of ‘ghost sings’ provided evidence of previous small newsagents but the locals
will now have to head to Earlsfield or further away for their milk etc. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 77 joins long Garratt Lane about halfway
down and in time for other passengers to catch a train at Earlsfield Station,
which forms the hub of local shops and pubs of all kinds. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We noted that the <i>Sailor Prince</i> pub had been
reborn as <i>the Wandle</i>, after the river which runs nearby. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a theatre too, the home of Tara Arts
which for more than forty years has been promoting the varied culture of South Asia and
now has a permanent home here. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
nearby and strangely named <i>Hallowed Belly</i> proves to be a pub with food, and
then the shopping and eating opportunities peter out somewhat as Garratt Lane
continues to wind its way down to Tooting passing through <a href="https://hidden-london.com/gazetteer/summerstown/">Summerstown</a> struggling to maintain a separate identity between Earlsfield and Tooting.</span></div>
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to go and for once I was able to observe the street numbers which go up to 1085
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irritated by a back seat passenger who was planning his weekend with a friend
on the phone (though the friend did not get much of a look in) starting with
going to bed later today, waking up at 10PM, going out then getting in at 3-4
AM, and starting again Saturday after a modest lie-in... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 77 will be tucked up in its garage so he
will have to take a N44 or the tube to keep those hours, but definitely not
our problem. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like most of the other
passengers, he got off at the Broadway (where there is also a college) while we
carried on down Tooting past Amen Corner to the altogether shabbier and less
used Tooting Station. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had been
hopeful about a promised regular Thameslink service but hit a 19 minute wait on
one of London’s more derelict seeming stations – not withstanding the mural. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our journey had taken 10 minutes over the hour
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<br />London Buses One Bus at a Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837511103033911123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3735748565810982627.post-52974688649327341752020-01-10T10:43:00.000-08:002020-01-10T10:43:32.454-08:00The Number 76 Route<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday 10 January 2020</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Linda and I met at about 10.00, at Tottenham Hale, which is undergoing serious alterations, with new buildings going up all round, and of course, demolition going on as well.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's being provided with a much better bus space than Euston or Kings Cross, though it's not quite sorted yet. There are no 'facilities' at the tube or bus stations, but you can find what you might need on Platform 4 of the Rail Station.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We headed out and left, and were very soon at Tottenham Town Hall and Holy Trinity Church. This was built in the 1820s and, according it its website, was modelled by the architect, Savage, on King's College Chapel in Cambridge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We also passed the handsome entry to <a href="https://abneypark.org/">Abney Park Cemetery</a>, which is part of the Capital Ring and a pleasantly green place to walk through. By the way, the word cemetery, which seems a long way from Graveyard, or Friedhof, has its roots in Greek and Latin words about lying down to sleep, which seems appropriate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We next headed through the De Beauvoir area to reach and run alongside the Regent's Canal before turning left to cross it. Here we paused for two minutes 'to regulate the service', which confirmed our view that we had had a very smooth journey so far. It gave us time to note the huge amount of new accommodation being built here as everywhere.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiglNSEJ3LMaFuUsbe284i5CNCpEnUK-vhcZEJL1Pl8IrTOwA1Zn2ydPTnyTT2MxWXCFiNFhSh_Xdcq1BJCwCqGmXVFocgBCZN1lqs-jYNKQ-ATNhB6IkTsMKN4q1Lx2CRh8AwTSdfN0Q/s1600/IMG_9633.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiglNSEJ3LMaFuUsbe284i5CNCpEnUK-vhcZEJL1Pl8IrTOwA1Zn2ydPTnyTT2MxWXCFiNFhSh_Xdcq1BJCwCqGmXVFocgBCZN1lqs-jYNKQ-ATNhB6IkTsMKN4q1Lx2CRh8AwTSdfN0Q/s200/IMG_9633.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we came along Fleet Street towards the Strand, we noticed a small bust outside numbers 72-78. Thanks to the modern miracle that is the web, I can tell you that this is of <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/electionsvoting/womenvote/parliamentary-collections/speakers-conference/t-p-oconnor/">T P O'Connor MP</a>, an Irish Nationalist. I suppose he's along here because he was a journalist as well. We also passed the International Arbitration Centre, which proves to be a place where people can hire a room for mediation, or maybe just discussion.</span><br />
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<br />The Buses: it is better to travel hopefully...http://www.blogger.com/profile/00890241468975868659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3735748565810982627.post-13682751748630582602020-01-04T06:55:00.001-08:002020-01-04T10:23:59.735-08:00The Number 75 Route<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Friday 3 January 2020</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our fellow passenger in the seat behind distracted us a bit as he was talking on his phone about how he was proposing to go to bed for four or five hours when he got home. Had he just come off shift, we wondered; or from a party?</span></div>
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Lewisham has the 19th century <a href="http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/lewisham/assets/galleries/lewisham/thackerays-almshouses">Thackeray Almshouses</a> on its High Street, as well as a Muslim centre, busy with people for Friday Prayers; then we came past the large brick buildings of Lewisham Hospital. The former public library has been absorbed into the hospital.<br />
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The traffic was again slow as we passed various landmarks: Place Ladywell, the accommodation for street dwellers; the Watch House Pub. The pub is named for Watch House Green, once a public green space in the middle of the village, where the lock-up was situated: now built over, of course.<br />
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The Buses: it is better to travel hopefully...http://www.blogger.com/profile/00890241468975868659noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3735748565810982627.post-87855482674326846582019-12-28T03:53:00.001-08:002019-12-28T03:53:39.987-08:00The NUMBER 74 Route<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-GB">For once a flawless rendez-vous (we have
played hide and seek at Baker Street before now) and short wait for our 74
which I had been referring to as a 73 but this bus knew where it was going: south
west to Putney passing the plentiful plaques of Baker Street – HG Wells and
Pitt the Younger among others. Most of Baker Street is well established and
there are fewer changes along here in the last 10 years than in many parts of
London – the exception being this office? entrance some way along. This blog
entry has suffered from intermittent note taking and too many hospital visits
so timely labelling of photos did not happen, so there may well be
inaccuracies.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">After Hyde Park Corner we had a swift run
down Park Lane and I noticed for the first time there was actually a date on
the Dorchester – 1932. I had hoped its
website might give me something of its history but it would rather help me
arrange an expensive stay. Doubtless its
architecture was seen as cutting edge at the time and it is holding up well. At the other end of Park Lane the Hilton looks
more ‘ordinary’ – it will be interesting to see what impact the ‘new kid on the
block’ (what is currently called the Peninsula, today boasting four cranes)
will have. By Hyde Park Corner we seemed
to be following a <a href="https://www.laduree.co.uk/macarons/">Laduree</a> </span>Van - the
same pretty green as their packaging. This was no bad thing as it inspired Jo
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good view of the frontage precariously supported by scaffolding while a new
building is put up behind. Often when
traffic (and the buses) is delayed in town it is not so much road works as
building works spilling over into the road while building materials are
delivered. Apart from the damage to the
road surfaces from heavy lorries we hope the developers compensate generously
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South Kensington station as the latter now has a wide and pleasant pedestrian
area surrounding it. This means that
effectively there is a 15 minute gap between the stops for the Victoria and
Albert Museum and the Natural History Museum when you know they are actually
next door to one another…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cromwell Road there seemed to be an unending stream of hotels: Marriott,
Mercure et al. I suppose this westerly location makes them handy for both
Heathrow Airport and posh shops. There
is a Blue Plaque for Benjamin Britten which surprised us somewhat as we
associate him so strongly with Suffolk.</span></div>
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nobleman, largely German with multiple titles
but no real funds, who married into Victoria’s family and went on to live off handouts; his daughter
married even better, eventually becoming grandmother to the current monarch. Why you might wish to name a pub after him is
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Kensington, less smart and what used to be ‘bed-sitter land’ but now probably eye
watering expensive flat shares or tenancies. Of course the Earls Court
Exhibition Centre is <a href="https://www.myearlscourt.com/area-today/earls_court_exhibition_centre">no more</a>
as the bulldozers moved in to demolish the building, arguably more interesting
than Olympia, in 2014. So this has been a major change since we last came this
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the 74 passes through Fulham, which has always retained its character, which
was originally that of a working class area with accommodation for potters and
other craftsmen, merchants to service the skilled trades, and local shops. Of
course the shops have changed and the area much gentrified but its essential
elements remain, giving it an attraction that West Kensington could never
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who laid out this and the adjacent streets but the Lily Langtry pub is serendipitous
– it is thought the actress and socialite ‘received’ the Prince of Wales Edward
VIII near here. I skimmed through her
Wikipedia entry but to be honest she was linked to so many famous men that I
lost interest, though it certainly means her name remains known and popular
till today.</span></div>
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alongside Fulham Cemetery, the borough’s oldest. The gravestones seemed very widely spaced by
today’s standards when space is at a premium. Quite quickly we turned into
Fulham Palace Road and past the Bishop’s Palace (not really visible from the
bus) and his park which is now a pleasant space next to the river. Good to see a working public clock too. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">London was very muted this early morning of
Friday 13 – in a sort of post-Election hangover of disbelief and trepidation
about the future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Boris was after all London’s
Mayor for eight years, a period marked by grandiose projects of limited value
and legacy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jo and I agreed not to
mention the results, but at times our frustrations got the better of us – I
shall spare you’re the anguish and post mortems and return to our route ‘de
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<span lang="EN-GB">We had seen at least three Number 73s
whirling out of Brooke Road so it was good to find them waiting to depart on
Stoke Newington Common – this route has changed from our </span><a href="http://londonbusesonebusatatime.blogspot.com/2010/05/number-73-route.html">last trip</a>, when it went
from Victoria to Seven Sisters (a trip more easily accomplished on the Victoria
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in at the end where there had clearly been some bomb damage. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bus was really busy from the outset as in
spite of railway lines crossing the common there is no very handy station
nearby. Stoke Newington is however wearily
trendy –who knew the Mint Gun Club was a reference to ‘Fear & Loathing in
Las Vegas’? (it’s a bar) – and then there are artisan bread shops with slightly
obscure names: finally on the High Street ‘Olive Loves Alfie’ a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Creative family Lifestyle Shop</i>???<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever happened to a name that ‘does what
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time of year, advertising its Christmas fair, and as it was not a name that
rang any bells I looked her up: a true local stalwart who was a school governor
for many years , from humble origins but working tirelessly for her community until
she met a rather </span><a href="https://www.locallocalhistory.co.uk/schools/BL/name/index-m.htm">unnecessary death</a>.</div>
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while we arrived at Newington Green, where yet more folk boarded, and before
long we were passing the Mildmay stretches of Hackney where Mary
Wollstonecraft had clearly once been a resident, and founded a school for girls
– this pioneer now has a statue on the Green for which this slightly incoherent </span></span><span style="color: windowtext;"> </span><br />
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successful enterprises.</span></span></div>
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Argentine Grill next to the thriving (but out of shot) Hummus Grill – single
dish restaurants are always a bit of a gamble but I detect a (healthy ) trend
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on (open three days a week) but the colourful cinema has closed, even in its
re-incarnation as a church as this </span></span><a href="https://londonist.com/london/history/london-s-lost-cinemas">website</a><span style="color: windowtext;"> lovingly records.</span></div>
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as by now we had joined the main streams of traffic at Islington Green we might
say you could float away with the angels, except that this bit of London is
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swift and by now with fewer passengers the 73 turns right along the Pentonville
Road – having saluted Sir Hugh Myddleton, the founder of the New River we
passed by its reservoir along here: prime real estate land, but as yet not for
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of the Hilton Group which offers franchises, and this is certainly fairly
recent to London. A longer term </span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/grimaldi-s-grave">resident </a> of the Pentonville Road is the very dead and buried Joseph Grimaldi upon whose grave
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from this direction, involved a certain amount of one way-ing round the two big
stations, past the British Library and along the notoriously slow Euston Road –
actually moving slightly today. In fact we even managed to call into Euston
station with its modest (Jo has other terms of endearment for it) bus station,
and out again in a reasonable time-scale. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other noteworthy landmarks of the Euston Road (apart
from the station) include Friends’ House, built in 1926 and very much of that
era. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the main meeting place for
the Society of Friends, generally known as Quakers, though the website seems
keener for the browsing public to book it as a venue than worship. We were slightly bemused by the ornate 'fascia' over the lintels such a close up being the benefit of stationary traffic. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nearby is the very shiny University College
Hospital – Jo pointed out the decorative ‘pebble’ on the threshold though there
are </span><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4184104.stm">some</a> who thought the money for public art could be better spent </div>
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73 would head south via Gower Street and more University College but no , the
roadworks are complete and the 73 set forth bravely where only it and some
bicycles are allowed, namely in the opposite direction to most traffic - this
felt both daring and liberating and, for once, quick so the familiar sights of
Tottenham Court Road sped past: the Underground stations, the furniture stores
re-asserting themselves after the computer outlets took over including the
wonderful concave windows of Heal’s who have been on site for <a href="https://www.heals.com/blog/heals-200-tottenham-court-road/">200 years</a>.</span></div>
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from Crossrailitis – a lingering disease which affects infrastructure and all
the streets above ground as the developers move in and mess up the roads... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is also its first anniversary of not
opening. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once past the road blocks we
made it to our final stop, just short of Oxford Circus, 11 days before
Christmas and where we barely noticed some very uninspiring lights before
leaping, well stepping off. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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notwithstanding we did enjoy this route which takes you from the less well
connected bits of Hackney to the heart of the West End and Oxford Circus. As
for once it was not raining we threaded our way through Soho and down to
Trafalgar square for a not too distant route.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlqASCgwnZ3BxPm7ytJA_PdOcoAQHL6VR6tPuNYPWs0Q1cBSosUMemqU0TarotLGYtbfSEyzIq2TDf-T_7Yf6obPLin5RDVu8w7HOiBdP-alP2w6o-6zd0ciuxt3tPs9ZGx8SE7pKRClc/s1600/IMG_6281.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlqASCgwnZ3BxPm7ytJA_PdOcoAQHL6VR6tPuNYPWs0Q1cBSosUMemqU0TarotLGYtbfSEyzIq2TDf-T_7Yf6obPLin5RDVu8w7HOiBdP-alP2w6o-6zd0ciuxt3tPs9ZGx8SE7pKRClc/s200/IMG_6281.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We were soon into Rosslyn Park, famous for Rugby, and almost immediately at Barnes Station. I think we have said before that we like to discover (or rediscover) how all these nominally separate bits of our city slot together. Some green spaces had their cricket wickets covered, though we thought it unlikely that there would be much play for a few months. Actually, it's raining in Sri Lanka too so there has been some <a href="https://www.icc-cricket.com/about/cricket/rules-and-regulations/duckworth-lewis-stern">Duckworth-Lewis</a>-ing going on there. (I've only put this in to tease Linda, who does not care for cricket)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The we came across Hammersmith Bridge, remembering (me) how nice it was during the long period when it was closed to motorised vehicles, and turned into and out of Hammersmith Bus Station. Here our bus emptied, for pretty well the first time, though the personnel had changed as we went along.</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvN-6JemndQaAr_H9vKWKvHKGXqeX32-Ph1W04TM-DYGMHch_L1dp9ZBFMNqaUMFTis93fJG1GJtNH5NSApGg8dyD-n4V3gpGm6pr0RQ3BZhqg0j6WxiF-Fuvx7Xzizj1qzm0_liYkidA/s1600/IMG_6291.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvN-6JemndQaAr_H9vKWKvHKGXqeX32-Ph1W04TM-DYGMHch_L1dp9ZBFMNqaUMFTis93fJG1GJtNH5NSApGg8dyD-n4V3gpGm6pr0RQ3BZhqg0j6WxiF-Fuvx7Xzizj1qzm0_liYkidA/s200/IMG_6291.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We could just make out The Fishmonger's Kitchen through the blur of the windows. A glance at their </span><a href="http://www.fishmongerskitchen.co.uk/FMK/shopmade.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">website</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> made us regret we live about as far away as it is possible to be and still be in London.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Brook Green has a lot of big houses and mansion blocks, which we glimpsed as we paused for a driver change, and then we reached Shepherds Bush Green and of course Westfield Shopping Centre.</span><br />
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with just three minutes to spare (Jo had been half an hour early) and
Chessington South is the end of the line – we took a 71 to get us to the start
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35 minutes which seemed a bit optimistic, but the pleasant and chatty driver
said it would probably take about 40 given the road disruptions in Kingston –
as Jo had guessed correctly, these are down to creating newer safer cycle
tracks and triggered a discussion as to whether cyclists actually use them:
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clean-looking industrial units that line this part of the route and then turned
right to serve first the station and then a large and tidy-looking estate,
which is where the first passengers got on, with buggies or shoppers. As we approached Chessington North ( Do NOT
alight here for World of Adventure) there were clusters of shops round St
Mary’s Church and clear signs these used to be more scattered villages ‘filled
in with 19<sup>th</sup>- 21<sup>st</sup> century homes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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about make out some fine autumn colour, though the Chessington Oak pub seemed
to lack one – perhaps ‘sizzled away’ as one of the chain of pubs that promises
to ‘sizzle’ all their food. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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also in its time a village but now blighted by the Hook interchange, where we
crossed the A3. Hook Parade advertised
itself with one of those boosting and bracing banners exhorting the locals to,
well, shop locally and seemingly much loved by local authorities trying to
boost forgotten corners of their areas, but the shops were mainly of the tyre
and battery variety. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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of both a pub and a bus stop – always slightly risky as the pubs can re-name or
disappear quite suddenly , but this one seemed to be safe for the time being. Also between Hook and Surbiton was another stop
named Lovelace Gardens (there was a school too) leading us to speculate as to
whether Richard Lovelace, the poet ever lived round here but even the very
detailed Wikipedia entry seems unclear as to where he was born, offering me
Holland, Woolwich or Kent but in his colourful 40 year old life he does not
seem to have passed or dwelt here.
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which, in its steady way, has remained largely unchanged since we last passed hereabouts;
we see it as a ‘gateway to Kingston’. Passing
the back of Sainsbury’s is unedifying but we were cheered to see a trio of
workers putting up Surbiton’s Christmas tree and though they had a small crane
on the back of their lorry they were insisting on hurling the light garland at
the tree, in a rather dissolute way… As
someone who has enough OCD to make sure the tree lights are well distributed I
found this casual approach a bit unnerving, but I expect the end result will be
good enough. Surbiton is one of those
centres that went in for a town clock - this one is free standing and still
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London Buses One Bus at a Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837511103033911123noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3735748565810982627.post-14941999014239436142019-12-07T07:39:00.002-08:002019-12-07T07:39:54.004-08:00The Number 70 Route<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday 6 December 2019 </span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRztI4AmZzAtH_9ztwCqj7EqLF9IYG6mLbtKfdzTpxhyphenhyphen_vcJRnIF9VhUE2jSoXbWJMmxXFb2cN_9VwhJ577Se_6VZHUO5BlVbzAR5e0WZul1XzkN8EItDFHjUBOJ9B9xfvIRV55MUsX-E/s1600/IMG_9411.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRztI4AmZzAtH_9ztwCqj7EqLF9IYG6mLbtKfdzTpxhyphenhyphen_vcJRnIF9VhUE2jSoXbWJMmxXFb2cN_9VwhJ577Se_6VZHUO5BlVbzAR5e0WZul1XzkN8EItDFHjUBOJ9B9xfvIRV55MUsX-E/s200/IMG_9411.jpg" width="150" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A single decked bus and a dreary grey day did not seem to offer much in the way of pleasure; but we were cheered at the bus stop by the poster offering a free, volunteer run ride from Roehampton to South Kensington on Christmas Day, the only day of the year when there is no public transport.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our 70 left South Kensington on its no less lengthy journey to Chiswick Business Park at 11.15, and headed out along Harrington Road, to pass the Ampersand Hotel, its strange name unexplained on its website. (I could have researched it on my phone, as the bus</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kensington Church Street is also the home of Joseph Yates the timber merchant, which seems to have closed since we were last here. Passing the Old Swan pub, we enjoyed its pretty sign before turning East (aargh) to head along the Bayswater Road, past the imposing entrance to Palace Gardens Terrace, home of several ambassadors and embassies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Westbourne Grove, where we turned west again, was equally congested; our driver then told us that we were on diversion till Ladbroke Grove Station. Nobody seemed to mind. Along Westbourne Grove we spotted a blue plaque to A J Cronin, though it proved to be one put up by the Royal College of General Practitioners, rather than EH. A novelist so committed to the NHS would be very nervous as the service becomes a bargaining chip for politicians whose words can never be trusted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then we saw signs welcoming us to Acton Town Centre. What had presumably once been a cinema, is now the New Arch Climbing Wall. We passed the modest Oaks Shopping Mall, and a mammoth Morrisons, claiming to have existed 'since 1899'. We thought it probable that back them Mr Morrison was operating on a smaller scale. Against that kind of commercial muscle, we thought the hoarding asking people to support their local small shops stood little chance.</span><br />
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The Buses: it is better to travel hopefully...http://www.blogger.com/profile/00890241468975868659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3735748565810982627.post-75708518812371714882019-11-30T08:19:00.000-08:002019-11-30T08:19:03.497-08:00The Number 69 Route<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday 29 November 2019</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We headed out under the A13 to travel along the Barking Road towards Plaistow. We passed the <a href="https://www.celiahammond.org/index.php/about-us/about-celia">Celia Hammond</a> Animal Trust, which helpfully neuters feral cats. Celia was a model in the 1960s; interestingly, Brigitte Bardot also turned to animal welfare in her later life.</span></span><br />
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</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ3xyhU62aQibZBlIqwElIyffjotNf-OL4io341pnx6WPP390imptdcWaZiJQFu6y5mTXTQz1XKlkF3hqYpH3fSeppK8bkwsb5XmfEhLaE_sgI03jAR1ajARfuI3I_y0clat7c46tC0-k/s1600/IMG_9356.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ3xyhU62aQibZBlIqwElIyffjotNf-OL4io341pnx6WPP390imptdcWaZiJQFu6y5mTXTQz1XKlkF3hqYpH3fSeppK8bkwsb5XmfEhLaE_sgI03jAR1ajARfuI3I_y0clat7c46tC0-k/s200/IMG_9356.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Turning left along Hermit Road brought us past some little patches of green, where we admired the bright foliage of autumn, and then to the extensive East London cemetery. The 69 is the only bus along these mostly residential streets, and there were many people boarding, presumably for shopping in Stratford.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We came over the <a href="https://londonist.com/2016/06/weekend-walks-the-greenway-beckton-to-hackney">Green Way</a> which, as Londonist says in his walk notes, is an excellent walk, and a good use of the embankment over the great sewer.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So now we were in Stratford. Am I the only person </span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the scole of Stratford-atte-Bowe, </span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For Frenssh of Parys was to hir unknowe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">though not of course in more recent visits. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of the rest of post-Olympic Stratford.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We passed the bus station without waiting any time at all: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">surely the clouds used to be all silvery grey? </span><br />
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On our way north, after passing Maryland Station, we spotted the Cart and Horses Pub, which identifies itself as the birthplace of Iron Maiden, You can get a taste (of the group, not the beer) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEjGuDcDJjU">here</a> if you want, But we were clearly not out out of Stratford yet, as a block of newly built flats declared itself to be 'stylish apartments set in fashionable Stratford'.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Among the pubs we noted was the Pepper's Ghost. This is not the ancient name: it's been The Shoe Laces recently. The William IV, on the other hand, is an older name: a good King to name a drinking place after since he was the monarch who ordained that people in the Royal Navy could drink the 'loyal toast' sitting down. (He had been in the navy himself while his father and brother were on the throne, and was tired of cracking his head on the deck above when standing to drink their health)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But that was it, really. We reached Walthamstow's excellent and well designed bus station at 11.05 and ended our journey, sighing for the poor buses at Euston and King's Cross which have no such simple and clear layout.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is, I think, the only pair of routes which I travelled alone in 2009, so Linda and I did them the other way round this time: from Euston to West Norwood first, and then back to Marylebone as you may already have seen.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We came out of the inadequate bus area of Euston, past the scrap of green called Euston Gardens, at 10.05. I can see no sign on the plans for HS2 of an improved facility for bus users, though of course by the time you read this it may all be perfect. <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/528986/C220-ARP-CV-DPP-01A-580103-AP03-P03.pdf">This</a> is what it seems to say now, with the words 'bus station' applied to a tiny sliver of land.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All this area is pleasingly familiar to us as we trundled past the coal obelisk at St George's Circus, and reached Elephant and Castle, where building work continues, and strap lines and logos abound. Linda says that some of the attractive planting started life as guerrilla gardening, but it seems that the local council has adopted much of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As we came to Champion Hill, we waited for a while opposite Ruskin Park, 'to regulate the service'. I can only assume that the timetable takes into account the amazingly slow traffic north of the river, as I would have guessed we were running slow rather than fast. My granny trained as a teacher in Champion Hill (she qualified in 1902, I think) It is now part of King's College.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This area of road has those signs that light up if you are breaking the speed laws, and they did seem to be slowing down some drivers. It also has a large sign saying 'welcome to Herne Hill' as we passed Herne Hill Station and Brockwell Park. We also went past the South London Botanical Institute, which we visited a while ago and much enjoyed.</span><br />
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at Dalston Junction – very handy for both of us – and a staff member was kind
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the 67 starts from a quiet little space at the ‘other’ exit of the station, of
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bit of the Overground from the other is bordered by food outlets so you could
eat yourself silly just changing lines... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Signs POINT to Gillet Square which has a ten
year long history of public consultation and building but this public space now
seems well integrated into this increasingly populated part of Hackney, with
the nearby Ridley Road market still operating , but as this </span><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/ridley-road-slow-death-east-london-street-market-190113084053903.html">article </a>.explains
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its old Victorian buildings. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It too has
an enterprise side-line with regular car boot sales at the weekends. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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traffic-free roads (we’re talking Inner London here) we made good progress.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">More commerce is available at '<a href="https://www.beyondretro.com/pages/store-locator-dalston">Beyond Retro</a>'
a several-storey emporium with outlets round the UK and Sweden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever happened to rootling around in charity
shops and coming up with a ‘find’ – this, complete with mail order, surely removes
the fun and challenge?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However I confess
to sneaking a peek in case what I had still in my wardrobe might feature. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The </span><a href="https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/society/2019/6/12/the-aziziye-mosque-londons-most-decadent-mosque">Azizye Mosque</a> was a cheering sight on
a dull rainy day with its wealth of Iznik style tiles; apparently used mainly
by the Turkish community which is long established in this part of London , its
interior looks equally spectacular and saved a former cinema from demolition </div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Just before we reached Stamford Hill, the home
of another religious group, the Haredi Jews, we passed the old Police station
now converted into flats and something blander and newer calling itself SAFER
STREETS. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stamford Hill expanded rapidly
in Victorian times and there are several handsome blocks of flats. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike the Peabody Trust, the Guinness Trust
who have dwellings here, maintain their heritage and a very nice <a href="http://history.guinnesspartnership.com/map/">website</a>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">After a long stretch going due north the 67
takes a sharp left at a huge church onto St Ann’s Road – is the church St Ann’s?
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well no actually it is St Ignatius. The
buildings seem to spread down the road, and this is accounted for as it was
originally a Jesuit Foundation so needed nearby accommodation too. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The church is still active and we noted a
banner pointing to a knife box in memory of two presumably parishioners who were
stabbed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">This whole stretch, where the 67 appears to
be the only route, is known as St Ann’s and has a mixture of mainly post-war
housing and a range of community facilities both council, religious and
voluntary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like the rest of the route
the exchange of passengers was steady.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">As we passed Plevna Crescent, Jo thought
this might commemorate a battle though siege might be more accurate – it was a
decisive 1877 action in the Russian/Romanian allies’ fight against the Ottomans
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">According to
British diplomatic historian </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._J._P._Taylor" title="A. J. P. Taylor"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; text-decoration: none;">A J P Taylor</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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confirm the way that things are going already; Plevna is one of the few
engagements which changed the course of history. It is difficult to see how the
Ottoman Empire could have survived in Europe ... if the Russians had reached
Constantinople in July; probably it would have collapsed in Asia as well.
Plevna ... gave the Ottoman Empire another forty years of life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The bus has to drive round a small park,
the Chestnuts. where the autumn colours continued to be strong but probably for
the last week. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By contrast Jo spotted a
very robust Nespole tree in some-one’s front garden – this has become something
of a family joke. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is very (too?) easy
to grow from the fruit stones and Linda distributed a number of little rooted plants
to friends and family who are now complaining of overly excitable trees
dominating their London patches – the one thing these ex-seedlings fail to
produce is the lovely fruit of course. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The large building site next to a very run
down St Ann’s Hospital indicated a ‘sell off ‘ but this link indicates that
within two years there will be </span><a href="http://www.beh-mht.nhs.uk/the-new-st-anns.htm">replacements</a> and additions to the outdated
facilities.</div>
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hospital.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Very soon we have rejoined Route 41 down
Blackboy Lane heading towards Ducketts Green and Turnpike Lane , with our
latest load of passengers, replacing those who got off for the Piccadilly Line,
boarding for the bus to deliver us up a short stretch of High Street and to the
bus and train hub that is Wood Green. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We emerged into drizzle which fortunately
did not last long and after trying to take the next route on the wrong side of
the road located the head stop for the 243, which proved to be one of the
longer (in time) routes overall. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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minutes of NW trajectory mainly through the heart of Hackney and Harringay and
their very diverse and both settled and more recently arrived communities. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />London Buses One Bus at a Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837511103033911123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3735748565810982627.post-15555032540538052002019-11-21T08:34:00.000-08:002019-11-21T12:57:12.275-08:00The Number 66 Route<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thursday 18 October 2018</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTlilBQe2K1Dbo8SCqx-nVFQqji5wvW1DalPo_LmsSJygC-n_HAsL506ZwzFdg6HfZEmPT5SCio8DXiJK2iLL2LdUMAy2HV_czQyz71DoXs5uVzhcpTIHmgWVvvgeoWHXxBo2B7FeIXTo/s1600/IMG_6147.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTlilBQe2K1Dbo8SCqx-nVFQqji5wvW1DalPo_LmsSJygC-n_HAsL506ZwzFdg6HfZEmPT5SCio8DXiJK2iLL2LdUMAy2HV_czQyz71DoXs5uVzhcpTIHmgWVvvgeoWHXxBo2B7FeIXTo/s200/IMG_6147.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The rules of the project prevented us from catching the 5 <b>from </b>Canning Town (so convenient!) <b>to</b> Romford, so we needed the 66 to convey us towards the start of today's key bus. And that meant Leytonstone Bus Station</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We had hardly any time to wait, and set off at 10.45, slightly puzzled by a building called Seascape House. It made me think that it might be possible <a href="https://monologues.co.uk/musichall/Songs-I/If-It-Wasnt-For-The-Houses.htm">if it wasn't for the houses in between</a>, but it wouldn't.... Though we were to cross and recross the A12 and other big roads which might lead to the sea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Some parts of Leytonstone were single track for cars, with wide pavements and cycle lanes, but this did not last, and we were soon along wider and scarier roads as we headed into Wanstead, already advertising its Pumpkin Fest. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> As we came to Gants Hill, we saw as much 'new build' as we have in the other corners we have visited, and we also passed the Immaculate Health Care Services Offices, a name we thought with rather a religious tinge to it.</span><br />
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</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikMTiM_ks8r9xAMJ6PnYXXpiZHMq_38HH5CmYIdn2E18Bki8ewDKsyiLJaXBGcPoFA7sKBc-OCIxHOJqsfbOwdqlbVOdb4dhtKliYGp2OTh8NpZLuDpHnODXuC1LW0guKhti-pIEHrupw/s1600/IMG_9214.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikMTiM_ks8r9xAMJ6PnYXXpiZHMq_38HH5CmYIdn2E18Bki8ewDKsyiLJaXBGcPoFA7sKBc-OCIxHOJqsfbOwdqlbVOdb4dhtKliYGp2OTh8NpZLuDpHnODXuC1LW0guKhti-pIEHrupw/s200/IMG_9214.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was the middle leg of a three bus day. Having arrived at the Cromwell Road Bus Station in Kingston, we had been set to walk to Brook Street, whence the 65 departs, but the bus driver we consulted assured us that he could take us the two stop required on his way out of town, which he duly did. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Huge numbers of new-build apartments are going up north of the river, where presumably there is more space than in the protected areas of Kew and Richmond.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Linda and I share a very limited knowledge of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Assyrians">Assyrians</a> (according to Byron, they came down like a wolf on the fold, their cohorts gleaming in purple and gold); but in fact they are a people who have suffered from being in that bit of the Middle East where Iraq and Iran and Turkey and the Kurds all meet, and so many of them are now British; we passed the home of the Assyrian Society of the United Kingdom.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUz4hffO-3j6-OISb3tVN8uUA-QaxotX9c31I0As0IqGp8CB8XxMMQVc1Ox0e2wTrGf1pqOuyZFxcwa6RQak0ooREo41aCJqx5InceJKbOrSw5SBta7LCzSlL-I3hbnR4vdTrB59MpfG4/s1600/IMG_9253.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUz4hffO-3j6-OISb3tVN8uUA-QaxotX9c31I0As0IqGp8CB8XxMMQVc1Ox0e2wTrGf1pqOuyZFxcwa6RQak0ooREo41aCJqx5InceJKbOrSw5SBta7LCzSlL-I3hbnR4vdTrB59MpfG4/s200/IMG_9253.jpg" width="150" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">St Mary's Church is huge, and not entirely beautiful, but its dour outlines were softened by trees just beginning to turn. We came past the University of West London. According to their street banners, 98% of their students are in employment or further study within 6 months of graduating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We admired an art work outside the fine church, suggesting that we 'make life go with a swing and a smile', and loved the bright colours of some of the trees, particularly a splendid maple.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We reached Ealing Broadway Station at 12.40, a slightly longer journey time than that advertised, but after all, we had come a long way, and been slowed by several contraflow traffic lights at road works. It had all been very enjoyable, anyway: a route I would recommend!</span>The Buses: it is better to travel hopefully...http://www.blogger.com/profile/00890241468975868659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3735748565810982627.post-29579819213404717432019-11-10T12:56:00.003-08:002019-11-10T12:56:29.453-08:00The NUMBER 64 Route<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">Well the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://londonbusesonebusatatime.blogspot.com/2010/03/number-64-route.html#comment-form">last time</a> </span>we rode this I may have been closer in age to
the route number than I am now but we and the Number 64 just keep going… This time (we have been trying to reverse the
direction we journey in case anyone cares) we met at Thornton Heath
Station and rode down Brigstock Road to the disappointing Thornton Heath Pond –
I have lived in South London for 40 years and I still peer hopefully at the
dismal roundabout hoping for a patch of water… Of course there was one here once and even an
earlier heath but the post-war building boom that characterised Croydon meant
the roads got wider and the pond area smaller until the water dried up so in
1955 it was covered over. We tracked our
64 turning round and missed it at the bus stop but this is a very frequent
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<span lang="EN-GB">We were interested to see the number of
hotels along this stretch and not just small B&Bs – do they expect
relatives of long term patients to stay? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems a bit distant to be a tourist hotel,
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since our original project when we were travelling during and after the 2011
riots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Certainly there are quite a few
new builds along the London Road including the Harris Invictus Academy which
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therefore the buses must choose a different route through – for us it involved
several sharp turns to get from West Croydon to East Croydon stations tracking
off past Jury’s Inn and into a hinterland full of new and not quite </span><a href="https://www.lqgroup.org.uk/about/media-centre/news/details/155">completed blocks</a> – mainly residential we thought. Croydon
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heads up Park Hill which (for once) is an accurate description as there is both
greenery and an incline, bordered by mainly older houses. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Croydon’s leaf blowers were in full spate
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running through it) proves to be scenic on a fine-ish autumn day – an older
part of Croydon rich (in all its senses) in private schools and care homes
whose owners often take over properties now too large for any one family to
maintain. </span><span style="color: windowtext;"> </span><span style="color: windowtext;">One of these – </span><b style="color: windowtext;"><i>Old Palace</i></b><span style="color: windowtext;">
– is a private girls’ school but part of it was once the Archbishop of
Canterbury’s summer residence, though Canterbury never struck me as that urban.
Perhaps they wanted to be somewhere where you did not run into other keen eyed
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pleasing and a clump of bright Nerines caught our eyes – shame about the name
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Selsdon village, all ready for Christmas with its decorations, and on past yet
more golf courses and schools it was clear we were approaching the Addingtons
old and newer. To the left <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was the
original village complete with pretty parish church <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and as we went up the hill New Addington to
the right, but first we had to divert slightly to the Tram Interchange, that
form of transport being the quickest way in and out of the huge housing estate
that is new Addington.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were
different phases of building ng with some homes going up just before the war but
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sections of New Addington enabling you to see that what is remarkable is what
is missing – there are a few parades of shops, one or two community centres
looking like afterthoughts but nowhere you can earn a living or do a job; even
the trams which get you to East & West Croydon stations arrived quite late.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Jo said, Milton Keynes did it better.
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which proves to be a rather desolate strip of industrial units including the
ultimate, a vehicle pound to where untaxed or badly parked cars are towed. This
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immediately board the little 130 as our getaway vehicle….</span></div>
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have some regeneration funding but perhaps it’s so vast that what was on offer
had perforce been spread rather thinly – but we saw little change in the New
Addington we had first visited nearly ten years ago, except possible enhanced
public transport. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still we had a stress
free journey entirely within the borough of Croydon and had been able to enjoy
some fine autumn colours. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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