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A few hours walk on the former Olympic site

5/18/2015

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Leading not leading, facilitating perhaps, a walk with the Living Maps network on the former Olympic Park, Stratford. I only ever saw the games on the tv and the site under construction from the window of the huge shopping centre that got finished first.

Under the tarmac Neolithic rituals, Bronze Age burials and filled in waterways. Workplaces, homes and allotments.


The Essex Sewer plaque seemed like the only acknowledged remnant of what had been there before.  In that huge Victorian sewer London's stink flowed out in a great tubular causeway
over the River Lea. Now kindly renamed the greenway.  The whole site now soviet boulevarded sterile landscaped dug over by archaeologists and stripped clean of its memories. A policed heritage whose year zero was London 2012. No space even for Battle of Britain relics let alone speedway or travellers.
Challenging thoughts from Nick Papadimitriou. The day ended with a screening of the film about him and his walking. Epic.

Here's the social media trail on Viewranger
and here it is on Social Hiking, a bit of random pinging but there's me plus 3 other walkers here...check out the audioboom links!
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