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Canning Town - North Woolwich
Mizter T wrote: I've explored that area by bike a bit, and travelled the NLL to North Woolwich last summer. It is indeed peculiar. However whilst some bits might feel like their forgotten, travel a short distance and you'll find that regeneration is in full swing. The massive Excel conference centre & exhibition hall complex, the ever more popular London City Airport, the DLR extension, the large retail park off the North Circular on part of the site of the old Beckton gas works (as used in Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket), the Docklands campus of the University of East London and various other completed and in progress housing and office developments around the Royal Docks. Apart from Excel, much of this isn't apparent from the window of an NLL train! Whether or not the said regeneration benefits locals, however, would be to delve into a classic thorny question of the rebirth of the Docklands. Fair enough but, as I've sometimes wondered, when someone moves into a nieghbourhood how long is it before they can consider themselves a 'local' person? |
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