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South River
Jul. 8th, 2014 02:12 pmThe previous Sunday was walk 5 of the Lost Rivers series. We started off at the top of One Tree Hill with its view, its rural feel and its radical past, down to Peckham Rye, which is gorgeous. I never knew that when I lived in Camberwell: I visited the common part of the park, but further south, the Peck free-flows through ornamental gardens, leading to a lake. The rest of Peckham is less nice: grim roads flanked by grimy industrial areas only enlivened by the bright colours of the evangelical church goers.
We picnic in the empty Cossall Park, ignoring the smell of dog shit to play on the see-saw. South London is devoid of people, but full of cars and creepy objects. At Millwall football ground, our route is disrupted by a temporary road closure under the railway line, so we're back out on the traffic-infested main road, past Only Fools and Horses type towerblocks, finally to Surrey Quays, which is dead, apart from on the cockney barge-pub, The Wibbly Wobbley (sic).
We picnic in the empty Cossall Park, ignoring the smell of dog shit to play on the see-saw. South London is devoid of people, but full of cars and creepy objects. At Millwall football ground, our route is disrupted by a temporary road closure under the railway line, so we're back out on the traffic-infested main road, past Only Fools and Horses type towerblocks, finally to Surrey Quays, which is dead, apart from on the cockney barge-pub, The Wibbly Wobbley (sic).
