Going for Gold :(

Lovely old sheds to be demolished for the olympics


The observer allotment blog has a piece on the destruction of an allotment in Hackney Wick, which is 'paving the way' for the new olympic thing in London, its a shame.

quoting them

"The Olympics were coming, and a walkway was planned straight through their fertile soil.

The threat seemed reasonably distant; campaigns were planned, and there was fair optimism that the suits would reconsider. The 80 plots had been there for more than 100 years; some growers had tended them for almost half that. The painted huts and greenhouses stand next to wartime shelters, and they all have a weathered elegance about them, a wrecked beauty untouched by artifice or pretence."