The Snapping Bishop

It’s an odd spot North Woolwich…

With my back to the Thames and old pier I’ll try and describe it too you: on my far left there’s the Thames ferry terminal pier curving around into the Thames and deeper water, Its car park on my immediate left, at the moment, off peak, just empty rows divided by miscellaneous cones. Within that oval area you’ll find the fine Victorian domed entrance to one of the Thames foot tunnels, standing oddly alone amongst the swathes of lanes and bus stops. Then there’s the North Woolwich museum across the road in front of me, with its own bit of short rail track and working steam train going off to the left behind the car park. To my right and in front of me the footings and remains of a public house and an attached club bar place which overlooks the river, all lays in ruins, graffiti covers the walls everywhere you look, and although great efforts have been made by the local council to keep the place inaccessible, over the years, nothing has stopped the local youth from doing their thing… Behind this boarded monument to free speech, disposable barbecues and spray paint you’ll find a small and pretty park, sitting very low measured against my position it travels eastwards alongside a grass covered hill which is actually the river banks huge buttressed walls.

Ive dug these shots out but in fact I’m yet to find the clear shots that I have showing the whole Pier. I remember standing on the ferry shooting them so the’re here somewhere…. so for now just the first set. I’ll stick a link here to a new blog when I find and/or publish a newer set on a fresh blog.