While Hackney Wick is mostly at the scummy end as an area, this is still the very pleasant Cadogan Terrace facing Victoria Park. Below is (or was before it closed) the Morpeth Castle pub.
The grey Georgian House below once was home to the fashion designer Alexander McQueen.
A good use for a redundant chimney - advertising!
Now I ventured onto the Greenway taking one past the Olympic stadium. Several new developments going up around here.
Concrete pill boxes constructed here as anti-tank defences. But now of course covered in graffiti. As is pretty much anything around here. I know some people would have you believe it is street art, but it is just the scrawl of ignorant gits.
The River Lea
The Olympic stadium, currently dressed up in its West Ham garb.
The yellow building is the View Tube, a cafe
Circling back off the Greenway and down to street level you get to what some would say is edgy London, but is really the sort of dystopia that science fiction films of post apocalypse futures are filmed in. Lots of graffiti, buildings covered in iron grates and endless signs warning intruders that the building is bristling with security cameras. You wouldn't want to wander around here in the dark, nor leave a bag unattended for a few seconds.
This plaque should be telling you this is part of the swewr system laid out by Joseph Bazalgette, but inevitably it is covered in graffiti....
This was actually built as multi-storey stables from the days when canal haulage was by shire horse.
And this a spectacles factory. Mahatma Gandhi and John Lennon were patrons
The one striking clean building hereabouts is H Forman & Sons smoked salmon factory - relocated here with some money from its previous site which was bought for the Olympic stadium site.
Stour Place art gallery
The White Building - once a printworks but now another arts centre with pizzeria, craft beer etc
And finally Hackney Wick tube station
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