An ancient MRCT trailer in a field
A Team Outing at Namco Funscape, South Bank, London - 27th March 2019
Nosher's team at work has one of its occasional "away days", and this time it's a return to Namco Funscape, near the London Eye on the South Bank of the Thames in that London. On the way down, as it's not a working commute, there's more of a chance to catch up with trackside dereliction such as the 1860s Fison's North Warehouse, currently the subject of attempts to get it restored or at least preserved. It's a building that's hard to catch as the train is normally running past at around 80mph, and many previous attempts have been a bust, but this time a lucky well-timed shot gets it almost perfectly. Then, on the way back, instead of getting the tube all the way back from Waterloo to Liverpool Street, there's an exit at Bank and a chance to wander more slowly along the roads, which reveals interesting details normally missed when cycling frantically to the station.
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previous album: Devon In A Day, Exeter, Devon - 14th March 2019
The Fison's North warehouse in Bramford
The listed Fison's warehouse on Papermill Lane
The whole of the Fison's warehouse, and graffiti
Signalling runs over graffiti on a wall
More signal wiring boxes over graffiti
Huge piles of crushed concrete
A derelict building is demolished
A wall is left hanging
Some concrete block structure is partially demolished
Graffiti down by the Regents Canal
The curious 'Lego' room by the tracks
A London scrapyard
Moarain House near Bethnal Green
A T8C! tag
The train snakes into Liverpool Street
The entrance to Liverpool Street is full of trains
Back at Waterloo Station
The fancy new buildings on York Road are complete
The original 1960s buildings on York Road
The Elizabeth Clock Tower is covered in scaffolding
Ken wanders past a rank of claw machines
John lines up a tricky shot
Sumaiya plays table tennis
Hanging out on the bowling lanes
There's some bowling action
Tehmur pretends he can't bowl
Hak and Dongyi play table tennis
Tehmur takes a shot
David cues up
Dongyi and Abdelhak are a blur
A long exposure in the games room
We try out an escape room
Praveen puzzles it out
We head off into the games area
Praveen and Tehmur 'help' out on a VR thing
Ben in a dodgem
Red lights on the dodgems
Ben and Matt do some shooting
Praveen on a VR motorbike
Praveen does some VR
Tehmur is assisted on a VR game
Dominic on the air hockey table
Painting with the lights of the dodgems
More air hockey
There are big crowds milling around the Eye
The remaining 1960s buildings on York Road
York Road
Cast-iron railway bridge, and 10Foot graffiti
A grim passage to Waterloo station
The back of the York Road buildings
The rare sight of an empty tube station
The infinite tunnels
The steps out of Bank tube station
Looking up Lombard Street to the Lloyds Building
Looking into the sun over Bank Junction
This looks like a scene out of Inception
Tower 42 - formerly known as the NatWest Tower
A building teeters over a footbridge on Wormwood Street
Behind an office block is a Victorian public baths
An indoor arcade called, er, The Arcade
Liverpool Street Station
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An ancient MRCT trailer in a field
An ancient MRCT trailer in a field
The Fison's North warehouse in Bramford
The listed Fison's warehouse on Papermill Lane
The whole of the Fison's warehouse, and graffiti
Signalling runs over graffiti on a wall
More signal wiring boxes over graffiti
Huge piles of crushed concrete
A derelict building is demolished
A wall is left hanging
Some concrete block structure is partially demolished
Graffiti down by the Regents Canal
The curious 'Lego' room by the tracks
A London scrapyard
Moarain House near Bethnal Green
A T8C! tag
The train snakes into Liverpool Street
The entrance to Liverpool Street is full of trains
Back at Waterloo Station
The fancy new buildings on York Road are complete
The original 1960s buildings on York Road
The Elizabeth Clock Tower is covered in scaffolding
Ken wanders past a rank of claw machines
John lines up a tricky shot
Sumaiya plays table tennis
Hanging out on the bowling lanes
There's some bowling action
Tehmur pretends he can't bowl
Hak and Dongyi play table tennis
Tehmur takes a shot
David cues up
Dongyi and Abdelhak are a blur
A long exposure in the games room
We try out an escape room
Praveen puzzles it out
We head off into the games area
Praveen and Tehmur 'help' out on a VR thing
Ben in a dodgem
Red lights on the dodgems
Ben and Matt do some shooting
Praveen on a VR motorbike
Praveen does some VR
Tehmur is assisted on a VR game
Dominic on the air hockey table
Painting with the lights of the dodgems
More air hockey
There are big crowds milling around the Eye
The remaining 1960s buildings on York Road
York Road
Cast-iron railway bridge, and 10Foot graffiti
A grim passage to Waterloo station
The back of the York Road buildings
The rare sight of an empty tube station
The infinite tunnels
The steps out of Bank tube station
Looking up Lombard Street to the Lloyds Building
Looking into the sun over Bank Junction
This looks like a scene out of Inception
Tower 42 - formerly known as the NatWest Tower
A building teeters over a footbridge on Wormwood Street
Behind an office block is a Victorian public baths
An indoor arcade called, er, The Arcade
Liverpool Street Station