Barking - A modern folly
Introduction
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Barking - A modern folly
Image: © Geographer Taken: 17 Mar 2009
Although this looks like it may be part of the Barking Abbey ruins, it was actually built at the same time as the shopping centre, in 2007-8. It was designed by the architects muf who intend it to be a fragment of an imaginary lost past of Barking. http://www.muf.co.uk/southwrk.htm
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Image Location
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51.536564
Longitude
0.07875