Thanks for your comments folks, a few notes.
On the 4th pic down none of those high rise buildings were there when I moved in ten years ago, there has been intense building in Greenwich and Lewisham over the past decade which in my opinion have spoilt the area's character, particularly in Lewisham. And if that seems hypocritical or a little NIMBY on my behalf I'll point out that the flats they demolished to build the ones where I live 6 floors up were the same height as exists now.
What I don't understand is there has been heavy criticism of the way tower blocks were built in the fifties and sixties and people were crowded into them and now it seems they're doing the same thing all over again. In the mid-century at least there was a reason where we needed lots of housing after Hitler flattened a great deal of it but now?
Seems to me it's mostly money driven, the building firms have to make promises that lots of their papier mache blocks will be for social housing and affordable but very little of it actually is, most is sold to foreign investors and the new gentry who are, predictably, gentrifying most of greater London. Only positive thing is at least these new buildings usually look less ugly than their 50's and 60's equivalents. But they're not built to last, rather like Apple products they have built-in obsolescence.
In the 5th pic down there's a crane which is being used to help rebuild a large stretch of Victorian sewer which shows, I suppose, that not all of Thames Water's profits go into the pockets of Directors and shareholders, they're actually investing some of it. Political note: Our water bills have risen 40% since Thames Water was privatised. Thames Water shareholders have had large payouts so it seems to me that's where our extra 40% is going.
When they started renewing the sewer we were often assailed with a most unpleasant pong wafting across on the breeze but that went away after a month or two. Presumably that was the dismantling of the old sewer, I'm trying to imagine all that poo running awash.
And the 3rd pic down is the railway station, mainline SE Railways and Thameslink and the Docklands Light Railway.
I'm sitting on the railway station got a ticket for my destination....
Sometimes when I'm waiting for a train and there's nobody about I will sing that to myself
ing.
