The London Daily Newsletter Friday 10 February

Pontoon Dock
Pontoon Dock station opened when, on 2 December 2005, the King George V branch of the DLR (since extended to Woolwich Arsenal) was open to the public.

Pontoon Dock is located in the east of Silvertown in the redevelopment zone known as Silvertown Quays. The station is near to the small eponymous quay, Royal Wharf – a large commercial and residential development on the riverside – and the Barrier Point residential complex. Royal Wharf covers a location previously owned by Brunner Mond, where the Silvertown explosion occurred and where there is a small memorial. During the 2012 London Olympic games, Pontoon Dock was connected by a pathway over the road to the exit of the ExCeL centre.

TUM Book Club: Old Covent Garden
The magic of the old Covent Garden Market is evoked through Clive Boursnell’s photographs, taken over the course of numerous visits to Covent Garden in the 1960s and 1970s.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s Clive Boursnell, then a young photographer, shot thousands of photographs of the old Covent Garden, documenting the end of an era before the markets moved out of central London. Boursnell captured these last days of the market over a period of six years, from 1968 until the market’s closure, in a series of beautiful portraits of the feisty life of a city institution.

Child’s Hill: Harrow in the Distance – (1825) The painting shows the view northwest along what is now Cricklewood Lane, with Harrow on the Hill visible beyond. Collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum.

John Constable

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