Bicycle Tag of bike

It's not just the shitty roads, the history of the area (both this more recent stuff and it's industrial past) is actually really interesting, but when it was redeveloped in the '80s anything of interest was lost and replaced with lots of dullsville '80s new builds and retail parks.

I guess there wasn't the same appreciation of industrial archaeology in those days?

A missed opportunity anyway.

Some good pictures of the gas works including it done up in film set mode on Flickr by the way:
https://www.flickr.com/search?text=beckton%20gas%20works&sort=relevance

Several times when I've looked at this it's seemed to me like a top-down view from a tall building, with the pillars from another tall building opposite it. I think the effect is mainly created by the lamps mounted on the ceiling, because they can look as if they are on a vertical wall, shining down.

#whenyouseeityou'llshitbricks

I recognise the style but not the exact location... Might have a look on my way home if it's still here in an hour.

That's now making me very dizzy. Thanks a bunch!

#vertiginous

That steam tug 'Barking' which you've posted a picture of, still plies the Thames.
Whilst lying in bed one Sunday morning, in the flat of my ex, by the riverside on the Isle of Dogs - what passes for my branes was trying to figure out how come I could smell (the smoke) and hear (the whistle of ) a coal-fired locomotive. I was trying to figure out where the nearest railway lines to be within earshot were. It didn't occur to me that it was a boat!
When you see it in the flesh, it looks so sweet.
I think if you asked a 5 year old to draw a boat with a funnel, that's what you'd end up with.

If you are interested I have a few old photos from the docklans development corp days.

Old: Fancy brickwork at bridge over Carpenters Road, Olympic Park. Could have sworn I spotted @skydancer passing under it yesterday, seemingly oblivious to the fact is was the current tag!

New:

No particular link, just always liked it

I was heading to a job in Thamesmead, spotted you, wondered what you were doing lurking early morning under a bridge in the Olympic park, then it clicked (when I was on the ferry) that you were tagging and I missed the opportunity for a duel-tag.

i knew it was olympic! :)

A tag-duel? Fun!

Good work oat and so the batten passes...

ummmmmm battennnnnn!

Five mini battenbergs for a £1 at sainsbos. My, they went down quickly.

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'Batten' is actually a perfectly normal English spelling of 'baton' (from the French bâton). It just looks odd because the phrase 'pass the baton' tends to have the approximate French spelling.

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Batten, as a noun, can mean a plank or rod but it's used in building, nautical or theatre-scenery terms, not in the sporting or conducting context, and tends to mean something rather bigger than a sprinter could run with. Conductors and runners have batons. And baton may come from bâton but batten does not. It comes from batant (as does bâton)

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I thought it was a clue.

3 hours wasted

How much cake did you eat before you found out?

More useful:

Sponge square?

Carrot cake close.

Sticky toffee pudding fail.

I'm sure there's plenty of overlap between subscribers to this thread and the one in which the current tag was mentioned just two months ago...

The weight loss thread? Oh, sorry, that's where the cake is discussed.