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Connaught Road, LONDON, E16 2AE

Looking towards Camel Road. The bridge carries the Docklands Light Railway.

Looking towards the Silvertown Tunnel which is being redeveloped under the Crossrail scheme ( http://www.crossrail.co.uk/ ). Note the remains of the old bracket railway signal, just right of the big tree near the centre, where the dock lines were about to join the former North Woolwich line.

Viewed from Connaught Road.

The former North Woolwich branch of the North London Line, seen in 2007 shortly after closure. By 2012 the tracks had gone Image and by 2017 it will have reopened as part of Crossrail. See Image for the view in the opposite direction, both taken from the footbridge of the former Silvertown station.

Blocks of flats at Silvertown, in London's docklands.

Housed in the former St. Mark's Church. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_Lane_Music_Hall

St Mark's Church owes its origins to an investigation following a cholera epidemic into the poverty and poor living conditions of the people of the Hallsville neighbourhood (now part of Canning Town). The Rev. H. Douglas appealed in 'The Times' in 1859 and 1860 for funds and as a result St Marks was built during 1861 and 1862 on a site given by the Dock Company. Designed by the Victorian architect S. S. Teulon, it is one of only three London churches built by him. Writing in 1966 in Nairn's London, Ian Nairn had this to say about St Mark's: "A hard punch in the guts. Sombre and compact, brooding over the bizarre landscape of North Woolwich, funnels instead of tree-tops... Imploded, savage inward raids into the heart's essence, an architectural imagination the size of Blake's. The church is locked but still used; it must be kept. It is the nearest thing to a mystic's revelation that London has." The funnels have, of course, long gone and the church was subsequently made redundant after which the roof was burnt. Some photograph after the fire can be seen at http://www.urban75.org/london/silvertown-st-marks.html The church declined rapidly after the 1939-45 war and by 1965 the congregation had shrank to 'four old ladies at evensong'. There were plans to make it a museum of Victorian life but it is now the Brick Lane Music Hall. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_Lane_Music_Hall

Sadly no humps in sight. The viaduct carries the Docklands Light Railway.

St Mark's Church owes its origins to an investigation following a cholera epidemic into the poverty and poor living conditions of the people of the Hallsville neighbourhood (now part of Canning Town). The Rev. H. Douglas appealed in 'The Times' in 1859 and 1860 for funds and as a result St Marks was built during 1861 and 1862 on a site given by the Dock Company. Designed by the Victorian architect S. S. Teulon, it is one of only three London churches built by him. Writing in 1966 in Nairn's London, Ian Nairn had this to say about St Mark's: "A hard punch in the guts. Sombre and compact, brooding over the bizarre landscape of North Woolwich, funnels instead of tree-tops... Imploded, savage inward raids into the heart's essence, an architectural imagination the size of Blake's. The church is locked but still used; it must be kept. It is the nearest thing to a mystic's revelation that London has." The funnels have, of course, long gone and the church was subsequently made redundant after which the roof was burnt. Some photograph after the fire can be seen at http://www.urban75.org/london/silvertown-st-marks.html The church declined rapidly after the 1939-45 war and by 1965 the congregation had shrank to 'four old ladies at evensong'. There were plans to make it a museum of Victorian life but it is now the Brick Lane Music Hall. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_Lane_Music_Hall A photograph of the whole building can be seen at http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4799508