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The village is on the southern banks of the River Thames, about one mile upstream (west) from the Thames Barrier and adjacent to the purpose-built Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park, cycle paths and recreational areas. The village currently has the Millennium Primary School, a GP surgery, and a few shops. East of the village, at Peartree Wharf ...
In 2003, British Waterways issued a masterplan for a substantial, mixed used redevelopment of the site. The masterplan indicated a potential development size of 330,000 square metres (3,600,000 sq ft) commercial floorspace (offices, retail and restaurants), 120,000 square metres (1,300,000 sq ft) of residential use (approximately 1,500 units) and 10,000 square metres (110,000 sq ft) of hotel ...
Greenwich Powder Magazine (as it appeared in 1738) The peninsula was drained by Dutch engineers in the 16th century, allowing it to be used as pasture land. In the 17th century, Blackwall Point (the northern tip of the peninsula, opposite Blackwall) gained notoriety as a location where pirates' corpses were hung in cages as a deterrent to other would-be pirates.
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Photos from Ground Up (1997–2000) O2MillenniumDome.co.uk – Early website devoted to the Millennium Dome with pictures from ground excavation through the build; Greenwich MM — MEX — The Dome — The O 2 On-going site that documents the run up to the MEX including details of various planning meetings and, now, to the O 2
Numbers 1 to 14 (consecutive): the Paragon, and Paragon Cottage and Paragon Lodge Blackheath: Apartment: Since the war: 19 October 1951: 1211997: Numbers 1 to 14 (consecutive): the Paragon, and Paragon Cottage and Paragon Lodge
The $475-a-month apartment cost Koch far less than the $1,200 a month it was worth at market rate at the time he lived there. (Rent-control laws place a ceiling on how much landlords can charge ...
Radburn design is an offshoot of American designs from the English garden city movement and culminated in the design of the partly-built 1929 Radburn estate. [ 3 ] In the United States, the Radburn idea reached its ultimate expression in Los Angeles , California , with the design and construction of Clarence Stein and Robert Alexander's Baldwin ...