Mick Hartley

Down the Lea Valley, below the Olympic site, is Twelve Trees, currently an industrial estate but destined for greater things as part of the Lea Valley Park:

This huge site, currently used by National Grid for gas storage, will become a major new visitor destination for London incorporating activities and facilities within the frames of the listed gasholders and connecting Bromley-by-Bow with West Ham.

For the moment, though, it's the gas storage which dominates:

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By the river (tidal here) you can walk downstream for a half-mile or so on what's eventually to become part of the Fatwalk, linking the Thames at East India Dock Basin to the Olympic Park (pdf map).

For the moment it's pleasantly unused, with a view of the backside of Docklands from a different angle:

That's Balfron Tower in the foreground there: the Poplar twin to the more famous Trellick Tower in North Kensington.

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