The Thamesmead model fit for the 21st century by copying how bad it's transport links are.
I found and opened an old #Rediffusionshkspr.mobi/blog/2020/09...
Way back in the mists of time, the UK had a Cable TV service called Rediffusion. It had a long and noble history, but has been defunct for the best part of 40 years. All technology leaves scars on the...
good work - implications for other routes too - I'd suggest it also casts doubt on the plans for the Gallions Reach extension if headways mean you wouldn't be able to run a service with sufficient frequency to terminate at both Beckton and Thamesmead. Unless you made Canning Town - Beckton a shuttle
Nice ride past The Rose of Denmark pub along the Thames from Greenwich to Thamesmead. The return leg via Plumstead and Welling wasn't great.
A London Electricity Board staff magazine cover from February 1967 featuring a representation of the Woolwich-Erith development (later Thamesmead).
Another post on events from the same time: the resistance to a fascist march in Thamesmead, 1991, and some of the background to the Thamesmead estate, racist attacks and anti-racist response wp.me/p74yfw-mM
The Southeast London ‘suburb’ of Thamesmead was built on land once forming about 1,000 acres of the old Royal Arsenal site that extended over Plumstead Marshes and Erith Marshes. Thamesmead was born i...
It's real. It was a lobster called Santa (xmas gift) & after it died I kept it frozen while the ship was built. It was autumn 1999. She was launched at the East end of Thamesmead where the flood wall has a gap. The music was the looped intro to Sanctuary by FFB. After we ate peas - Santa's favourite