The Anonymous Widower

Towards the Match

I was mainly gpoing to London to see Ipswich play at Millwall.

I didn’t take a direct route, as I had time to spare and wanted to do one or two things before the match.

So from Tottenham Hale, I took a couple of stops on the Victoria Line to Highbury and Islington, where I took the North London Line to Canonbury.

A house I am interested in, lies betwwen there and Dalston Junction and I wanted to see which was the nearest station.  The first leg took eleven minutes and the second ten, so Dalston Junction is closer and will be a couple of minutes so, when they complete the station. It’s also downhill from Canonbury and flat to Dalston Junction, which means that it is an easy walk to Dalston to travel away and another easy one to get home from Canonbury.  In some ways it won’t matter too much, as from May 2011, the two stations will just be two stops apart on the East London Line.

FRom Dalston Junction, I took the East London Line south to Rotherhithe, with the aim of seeing the Brunel Museum; which is one of the many museums on the line. I took this photo of the brickwork on the entrance to the station.

Brickwork at Rotherhithe Station

I’ve always liked good brickwork and in my life, I’ve designed and had built several important brick features including a traditional crinkle-crankle wall at Debach and my round office here. Are we training bricklayers to be able to do the difficult stuff? Ralph who did the wall, used to work in rubber gloves to save his hands and spent his holidays looking at buildig techniques all over the world. His colleagues used to laugh at him, but he certainly knew how to lay bricks.

September 22, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Architecture, Building, East London Line, Ipswich Town, London, Millwall FC, North London Line, Trains