Woolwich wander
Falconwood to North Woolwich, London. Mon 28 May 2018
People wait to board the Woolwich Ferry Ernest Bevin
Bevin, minister of Labour during WW2 was a trade unionist and Labour
MP for Wandsworth Central and, in his final
year until his death in 1950, for Woolwich East.
We walk along the gangway to get on board
and down the steps on the boat
The Ernest Bevin was built in 1963 and is to be retired later this
year along with its two sister ships
New buildings on the Woolwich Arsenal site
The ferry is a useful river crossing, but also somewhere people go
to enjoy. I brought my two boys here when
they were small - and we walked back under the river in the foot tunnel
after a visit to the railway museum (now closed)
We approach the north pier
The Thames Barrier is upstream
the roadway is lowered slowly
and cars and lorries get ready to leave
and we walk off too
Some of London's rubbish goes past
Canary Wharf from the north pier
By the time we reach the bank the Ernest Bevin is across the river
We walk a short distance along the riverside path
to where the old ferry used to run
opposite North Woolwich station, now closed. For some time it was
a railway museum.
and we walk up Pier Road
across Albert Rd
and on the short distance to King George V DLR station
Student Housing for East London University across the docks from the station
footbridge. In the middle is the
runway of London CIty Airport. I didn't have time to wait for a plane
to take off before the train came.
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