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Back in mid 2007 the old tea clipper boat The Cutty Sark permanently moored at Greenwich, UK, caught fire. Since then it's been going through a restoration process and it's hoped it will be open to the public again in April 2012. I have a feeling it will because next year the UK is hosting the Olympic Games and the Equestrian events will be held in Greenwich Park.
Because of this for the past year or more there has been a lot of feverish activity where the Council have miraculously found some funds to spruce the town centre up a bit. The Cutty Sark boat is part of this of course. All around the Cutty Sark the pedestrianised areas are having a revamp, the foot tunnel dome has been refurbished and the pier, formerly just a bunch of gang planks with railings, is also being rebuilt with a new building on it.
Today was a cold day but also a bright and sunny day so I went walkabout and took some snaps. I was lucky enough to catch the first two renovated masts being put back onto the Cutty Sark. There are also some more pix taken round and about as I had a stroll.
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I've never seen this old tug boat fired up before but today she had her engines running. Lots of building going on round here, seems every available square inch of land being sold to developers. Somebody's getting rich but it ain't me. This latest development partially blocks my view of the river from my home:
A couple of The Shard building as seen from Greenwich:
A few taken of and from the pier, showing partially built new building:
One entrance to the Greenwich Visitor's Centre right by The Cutty Sark:
Lady gives some money to lil ol accordion player busker in Docklands Light Railway mini concourse/mall:
Selling Christmas Trees. The Mitre pub in the background is where James stayed when he visited in '07:
Because of this for the past year or more there has been a lot of feverish activity where the Council have miraculously found some funds to spruce the town centre up a bit. The Cutty Sark boat is part of this of course. All around the Cutty Sark the pedestrianised areas are having a revamp, the foot tunnel dome has been refurbished and the pier, formerly just a bunch of gang planks with railings, is also being rebuilt with a new building on it.
Today was a cold day but also a bright and sunny day so I went walkabout and took some snaps. I was lucky enough to catch the first two renovated masts being put back onto the Cutty Sark. There are also some more pix taken round and about as I had a stroll.
These pix can be enlarged to 1000 pixels wide by clicking on beige coloured bar at top.
I've never seen this old tug boat fired up before but today she had her engines running. Lots of building going on round here, seems every available square inch of land being sold to developers. Somebody's getting rich but it ain't me. This latest development partially blocks my view of the river from my home:
A couple of The Shard building as seen from Greenwich:
A few taken of and from the pier, showing partially built new building:
One entrance to the Greenwich Visitor's Centre right by The Cutty Sark:
Lady gives some money to lil ol accordion player busker in Docklands Light Railway mini concourse/mall:
Selling Christmas Trees. The Mitre pub in the background is where James stayed when he visited in '07:
Great photo's Floppy I love the old tug boat, nice to see the old thing with a head of steam. I remember taking the kids to see the Cutty Sark and that must have been 30/35 years ago, it is good to see the old girl having a face lift after the disastrous fire and not the scrap heap, Great photo's as usual.
I think it was workmen who were doing hot work and left something hot and smouldering and also the fire alarms had been switched off because of the hot work but had not been switched back on, I could be wrong but I believe that was the cause.
