[Leica] Coaling pier

[leica at web-options.com (Bob W)]

Thanks.

Yes, the Isle of Dogs has certainly changed. I first came to Greenwich in
about 1980 when Island Gardens was a wasteland. As I recall it was hard to
find the entrance to the tunnel because everything was so overgrown. It had
a lovely secret air to it. I moved here in 1994 and really enjoy it.

Greenwich still retains some of that secret feeling, especially on a weekday
in winter, like today. It's a very enjoyable place to live.

I don't think I know Campbell Road, but I'm reasonably familiar with that
part of the East End. In the 80s my girlfriend lived near Victoria Park, on
the side near Campbell Road, so I got to know the area. Even now I cycle
that way along the canal from Limehouse Cut quite often.

Bob 


> A very nice shot indeed.
> 
> In the early 1970's I lived a couple of years in Campbell 
> Road E3 (Tower 
> Hamlets aka East End) while working in London and often took 
> a saturday 
> or sunday walk through Bow to Poplar and to Isle of Dogs tunnel, and 
> then walked under the Thames to Greenwich for a walk in the somewhat 
> fresher air.
> 
> I was back there a couple of years ago and hardly recognised 
> anything of 
> the East End and the Docklands, there were still some real 
> people there 
> in the seventies.
> 
> Thanks for posting
> 
> Douglas