Given that it has been in the (especially local) news quite a bit recently, today I thought I would just take a trundle to Thamesmead. You might have heard that the area is now going to get it’s own DLR station, and is up for a colossal amount of redevelopment. It’s not difficult for me to get to: a short bus ride down to Woolwich, then a twenty minute or so roll eastwards along the Thames. I have a strange way of getting rather excited about such things, and I’m looking forward to watching what is currently a quiet corner of London evolve.

The thing is, for now, I don’t have that much to report. Thamesmead is just a quiet suburb, with a lot of relatively new houses around it. It’s obviously yet another of those areas of east London which is being gentrified into oblivion. That does seem to raise a couple of questions though: might Thamesmead just become more-or-less the same as Stratford, with it’s colossal shopping mall and glittering new skyscrapers? And are places outside of London receiving the same sort of investment?