{"id":5590,"date":"2017-09-09T15:24:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T14:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenedwards.org.uk\/image\/?p=5590"},"modified":"2021-11-09T10:44:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T10:44:21","slug":"thames-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenedwards.org.uk\/image\/2017\/09\/09\/thames-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"thames walk |"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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the thames was beautiful, dark, and swift beneath the billion yellow and white lights of the city\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>

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i remember this day pretty well, only two years ago. i had ended up in greenwich after walking from new cross through deptford after a particularly difficult english class with a private student. the student unfortunately had somewhat unrealistic expectations of successfully passing an examination in order to practice medicine in the uk. it had been a depressing morning. my student struggled with the work i\u2019d given her, and i\u2019d started to feel a bit guilty about taking money for giving classes that ultimately wouldn\u2019t benefit her. after leaving new cross gate<\/em>\u2009\u2014\u2009near goldsmith\u2019s college -<\/em> i decided to walk down through deptford,<\/em> across deptford creek<\/em> and into greenwich<\/em>, past the markets, the royal naval college designed by wren<\/em>, across the zero meridian<\/em> and onto the thames walkway<\/em>. my mood was as dark as the glowering sky, overcast, but never quite threatening rain.<\/p>

everything was drained of colour, and reminiscent of the atmosphere of some of the more sombre passages in dickens. i thought of the character of magwich in great expectations<\/em>, pip\u2019s mysterious benefactor. my walk took me along the side of the thames, some guerilla artwork, and past enderby\u2019s<\/em> and morden<\/em> wharves. across the river, a glimpse of the thames pumping station; a post-modern bit of whimsy looking for all the world like a temple to the river god. on this day i wouldn\u2019t have been surprised to witness human sacrifice.<\/p>

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the thames snakes its way between the temple of commerce which is the isle of dogs<\/em> and canary wharf<\/em> forming a kind of yin-yang<\/em> symbol with the peninsula. my walk ended around the formerly brown-field area of north greenwich<\/em> now occupied by what used to be called \u2018the millenium dome\u2019 and now a concert arena owned by O2, the mobile \u2018phone company, re-named in honour of themselves.<\/p>

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the thames shouldered its way past blackfriars bridge, impatient with the ancient piers, no longer the passive stream that slid past chelsea marina, but a rush of ugly water that had scented the open sea and was ready to make a run for it.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>

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