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Embankment to Greenwich by Boat

First sights trip on a wet thursday.

Departing embankment pier at 11.15am our vessel proceeded westwards, in contrary to expectations.
On reaching the houses of parliament, the captain announced a change in direction setting us on route eastward to Greenwich.
There were a series of brief stops at waterloo and at another pier which i forget to allow others to board the ship. The second pier bought with it the blessing of a change in compere as the original gentleman seemed to have derived his repetoire from the opinion pages of the daily mail.
Although the the weather did not improve, spirits were enlivened by the informative history lesson granted by the new compere. Most of the area’s (wapping, limehouse etc.) history revolved around prisoners, pubs and drowning pirates.
The area was largely made up of wharfs (warehouses at river front), industrial buildings and newly developed apartments ( on the south side and pubs and residential bulidings on the northern side.

We arrived at Greenwich, ate and caught the tube east to Custom House, we proceeded to visit the Thames Barrier Park, a very interesting space in a somewhat desolate but very interesting environment made up of roads, new housing and run down factories .