HMS Victory
I hadn’t been over HMS Victory for many years.
it is a bit stunted at the moment, as the masts have been taken away for some work, but they now give you free run right into the depths of the ship.
HMS Warrior
HMS Warrior was the first ship I visited.
HMS Warrior was Britain’s first iron-hulled, armoured warship, when she was built in 1960 and she still floats in Portsmouth Harbour.
This site is her official web site.
Around Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
These pictures are a few general ones of Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
Note the cheese and ham toastie. It was a surprise in the Georgian Tea Rooms. They also had jacket potatoes.
You Can’t Miss Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
I went to Portsmouth yesterday to look at the Historic Dockyard and in particular to see the Mary Rose.
I took the train from Waterloo to Portsmouth Harbour station and when you walk out of the station, you can’t exactly miss the dockyard.
You Can’t Miss Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
The ship is HMS Warrior.
I do have a couple of issues with South West Trains though.
I travelled First Glass and on trains like Virgin, East Coast and Greater Anglia, you get complimentary drinks. But not on South West Trains.
The Class 444 trains, seem to have an absence of litter bins in First Class. Perhaps First Class passengers throw everything on the floor.
The station also seems to have a lack of any sort of map. Not that I needed one, as I could see my destination from the station entrance.
London 2018
I saw this sticker at the ViewTube.
London 2018
London 2018 refers to the city’s bid to host the Gay Games in 2018.
To The View Tube For Lunch With Culture
After Pudding Mill Lane it was just a short walk to the top of the Northern Outfall Sewer and the ViewTube.
I went primarily to have a look at the photo exhibition there called What The Gamesmakers Did Next.
What The Gamesmakers Did Next
It was worth seeing and afterwards I decided to have a coffee or a soft drink. In the end, I had this delicious scrambled egg, smoked salmon and salad with some gluten-free bread.
A Delicious Lunch At The ViewTube
It was well worth the trip to this end of the Olympic Park.
My only complaint is that the fact that they can handle gluten-free food is not on this sign.
Delicious Things This Way
But that’s minor and only affects me!
I also find it sad, that there is no notices up, which say you are standing on top of Joseph Bazellete’s great creation that still moves North London’s sewage to Beckton. But then the only smell at this time of year is that of the wild flowers. We should be proud of our engineering heritage!
If you feel you need a walk, this is also a good point to start a walk, across the Olympic Park towards Hackney Wick and Victoria Park.
I also heard on my visit to the View Tube, that when the Olympic Park is fully developed, it will be linked by a pathway to the park.
Pudding Mill Lane Station – 17th July 2013
From Stratford I moved on to the area around Pudding Mill Lane station to see progress on both the new station and Crossrail.
The pictures show that things are moving on quite well.
Note.
1. According to this entry in Wikipedia, the new station should be finished in 2013.
2. The current station will have to be demolished to allow work to proceed on Crossrail.
3. There is no sign of the tunnelling machines at Pudding Mill Lane, which will drive from there to Stepney Green.
Wandering Around Stratford
This morning I went to Stratford and had a look round to see if anything was open yet at the Olympic Park!
There was a lot of activity, but opening is a few days off yet!
i didn’t find any new restaurants that can do gluten-free, although I did find a Holiday Inn, which would be in an ideal place to stay, if you got a good deal.
The bridge mentioned in the captions to the pictures is the one that links Stratford station to Eastfield and the Olympic Park.
De Beauvoir Town’s Cycle Superhighway
De Beauvoir Town is flat and good cycling terrain. I took these pictures this morning in Lawford Road.
I must get back on my bike, as it’s an easy way to get around and we have a couple of roads like this with little vehicular traffic, as they are blocked by iron posts, which are just visible in some of the pictures.
In some ways because the roads are wide and parked cars aren’t a problem, they can use this approach of putting the cyclists down the middle of the road.
Wouldn’t it have been nice if all of London had been built with wide streets like this part of Hackney.
How To Build A Fake House
They were putting this up as I walked past this morning.
I went back last night to take a few more pictures and spoke to the contractor. He told me, it will look like the surrounding houses when it’s finished and that Hackney Council were very co-operative.
We don’t have too many eye-sores around here, but I’ve seen places in London and other cities, where a house in say a terrace is well past its renovate-by-date and surely this technique might be a much more affordable way to create a new house.
It will be interesting to see what it looks like when it’s finished.
