#Silvertown

[londonedge]

The predominantly blue and yellow coloured Tate and Lyle Sugar refinery in Silvertown, London

This is actually a different site to the white coloured Tate and Lyle Golden Syrup factory which is also in Silvertown.

This photo was originally posted by me as Day 2099 on An Every Day Thing.

[leftoverlondoner]

I came across this spectacular painting of the Tate & Lyle factory and its surroundings in Silvertown, east London, this mornng. It is by artist Liam O’Donnell and is remarkably good.

[aneverydaything]

Day 2099, 22 March 2024

[haxanbroker]

Thames Barrier Park, East London, August 2023.

[spyroskaprinis]

“Millennium Mills Workshop” _ 03.02.2023 _ SK

“The Millennium Mills is a derelict turn of the 20th century flour mill in West Silvertown on the south side of the Royal Victoria Dock, between the Thames Barrier and the ExCeL London exhibition centre alongside the newly built Britannia village, in Newham, London, England. The Mills are currently undergoing a major renovation as part of a £3.5billion redevelopment of Silvertown.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Mills

https://www.avialogs.com/aircraft-v/vought/item/56318-vought-xf5u-1-illustrated-assembly-breakdown

[d00mbandit]

Millenium Mills in Silvertown, London.

[meganutriland]

I remember my first experience with Cable Car in Royal Docks. It was 2013 and it was not that popular and cheap. The next one took place in 2016 with my niece and parents- great opportunity to my little girl to be distracted from world she used to live that time. The price still satisfied my budget. 2023 - prices are much more higher but still affordable, very busy. This time with my two daughters: my niece and 4 years old plus very important teenagers and their extremely brave survivor. Time flies, people are getting older and I know that will have more beautiful memories to remember. Even if you won’t be remember you can always count on albums you made. xx #cablecarlondon #cablecarlondon🚠 #greenwitch #royaldockslondon #trip #kids #royaldocks #london #newham #e #royalwharf #eastlondon #docklands #canningtown #royaldockslondon #canarywharf #beckton #royalvictoriadock #shoplocal #silvertown #boundlesscraft #westsilvertown #shopsmall #northwoolwich #londonlife #pontoondock #canarywharflondon #plaistow #handmade #docklandslondon https://www.instagram.com/p/Co0X_vto_79/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[cocteautwinslyrics]

fucking HELL the royal docks are awful for pedestrian traffic. idk ive taken it for granted that major thoroughfares mostly have good pedestrian amenities in london but here you just have a footpath along 4 lane roads

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

Custom 1953 Muntz Jet Convertible

This 1953 Muntz Jet convertible underwent a three-year custom build under previous ownership, and it was purchased by the seller in 2021. The car is powered by a fuel-injected 5.7-liter LT1 V8 engine paired with a four-speed automatic transmission and a Ford 9″ rear end, and it is finished in Apple Pearl with a white Carson-style removable top over gray snakeskin-style Naugahyde upholstery. Features include custom bodywork, an Art Morrison frame, power-assisted steering, four-wheel disc brakes, airbag suspension, Painless Performance wiring, and more modified and fabricated details. This custom-built Muntz is now offered with a copy of Rodder’s Journal magazine featuring a story on the build and a clean California title in the name of the seller’s business.

Custom 1953 Muntz Jet Convertible

The steel, aluminum, and fiberglass body is mounted on an Art Morrison ladder frame that was boxed and finished in semi-gloss black, and the floor was raised 3″. The exterior was repainted in a Sherwin Williams two-stage Apple Pearl mixed by the late Stan Betz. Features include a chopped Duvall-style windshield, 1950 Chevrolet headlights, dual Appleton spotlights, 1951 Ford Victoria side windows, and a white removable Carson-style top fabricated to match the height of the chopped windshield. Additional equipment includes color-matched rear fender skirts and chrome bumpers. Wear from fitting the top is noted on the rear deck.

Custom 1953 Muntz Jet Convertible

Steel wheels sourced from a 1976 Dodge measure 15″ and are mounted with Cadillac Sombrero-style covers and whitewall tires. A matching spare fitted with a BFGoodrich Silvertown tire is mounted within a rear-mounted Continental-style chrome carrier. A Mustang II front end accommodates power rack-and-pinion steering , and the car rides on an electronically-adjustable Air Ride Technologies airbag suspension system along with 2” lowered front spindles, Strange Engineering tube shocks, a rear Panhard bar, and front and rear sway bars. The seller reports that the front control arm bushings were recently replaced.

Custom 1953 Muntz Jet Convertible

Custom 1953 Muntz Jet Convertible

Braking is handled by GM G-body-sourced calipers matched with Ford Granada discs up front and Ford SVO-specification calipers and discs at the rear.

Custom 1953 Muntz Jet Convertible

The cabin was customized by Jim’s Auto Trim of San Diego, California, and features Glide bucket seats and a rear bench trimmed in gray snakeskin-style Naugahyde upholstery, along with matching treatments for the dash trim, headliner, and door panels. Additional equipment includes a 1952 Lincoln steering wheel mounted to a shortened Lincoln steering column, gray cut-pile carpet, and a Pioneer stereo housed within a custom center cubby.

The engine-turned “Hollywood” instrument cluster houses Stewart Warner gauges consisting of an 8k-rpm tachometer, a 160-mph speedometer, and auxiliary readings for fuel level, battery charge, oil pressure, and water temperature. The five-digit odometer displays 25k miles, though total chassis mileage is unknown. A Lokar pedal assembly was fitted during the build.

Custom 1953 Muntz Jet Convertible

The Corvette-sourced 5.7-liter LT1 V8 features a polished fuel intake manifold along with billet aluminum valve covers, and additional features include an Opti-Spark distributor, a Griffin aluminum radiator, and a wiring loom sourced from Painless Performance Wiring. A set of long-tube headers are connected to a 2.5″ exhaust system equipped with dual Dynaflow mufflers. The seller reports that the oil was recently changed.

Custom 1953 Muntz Jet Convertible

Power is routed to the rear wheels via a four-speed 4L60E automatic transmission and a Ford 9″ rear end with with 3.55:1 gears and Strange Engineering 31-spline axles. Additional photos of the underside, drivetrain, and suspension components are presented in the gallery below.

Custom 1953 Muntz Jet Convertible

The car was featured in issue #36 of Rodders Journal magazine

[oliversrarebooks]

Augusnippets Day 25: Forced to Watch (alt prompt)

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tw: brainwashing, captivity, drugging, drug addiction

Jesse woke up slowly, his vision blurred and his head groggy. His surroundings were utterly unfamiliar -- soft cushions on sleek metal. He was lying against something very warm and comfortable, and it would've made him go back to sleep if there weren't an alarm blaring inside his head. There was a very important reason why he couldn't go back to sleep. Did he have something he needed to be doing?

The mission!

His eyes shot open as his bleary memories returned. He'd been on a dangerous mission with Zach. They'd made it to Silvertown Mall, found a whole cache of canned food, and then…

Oh fuck, he'd been captured.

The soft and warm thing supporting him was no longer comforting, now that he realized it must be his captor. His arms were behind him, and there was something wrapped loosely around his wrists. Maybe if the aliens didn't realize he had woken up, he could pull himself free… without…

Jesse's eyelids drooped as his thoughts clouded, his arms feeling so weak. He tried to blink away the creeping exhaustion so he could try to pull himself free again, but he couldn't budge his arms an inch.

He needed to comply.

The word echoed through his mind, and his breath hitched as he realized how far under the aliens' control he already was. How had he even been caught? It was all so hazy. And where was he now?

There was a sound of amusement inside his head, and Jesse realized the alien must be laughing at him. He slowly lifted his head to look around. He was in a small sort of pod with his captor behind him and another alien on the cushions across from him. Nestled comfortably in that alien's tentacles, eyelids half-closed with a placid expression on his face, was Zach.

"Shit! They got you too?"

Zach's gaze struggled to focus on Jesse. "We're… going home…"

"Snap out of it!" The reality of what had happened was starting to sink in. Because he hadn't dissuaded Zach from his stupid suicide mission, because he'd encouraged him instead, he'd been recaptured, and it was all his fault. "Wake up! We have to get out of here!" This only prompted more amusement from both aliens.

A little more light came back to Zach's eyes. "Jesse, where… Oh, fuck." He stirred, sitting up a bit more. "They got us. They're going to take us back. They're going to erase my mind again and make me a stupid pet. Oh, fuck…" His placidity was replaced by panic, which Jesse considered an improvement.

"Yeah. We have to get free." He tentatively tried to pull against the tentacles binding his wrists, and even though they were loose, he just didn't have the strength. Comply, comply, comply echoed through his head, fogging his mind and robbing him of his agency. What the fuck had they done to his head?

"You can't escape that way," said Zach, understanding what Jesse was trying to do. "It's the first thing they take away from you, when they put you under."

"I guess you'd know."

Memories flashed through Jesse's head of Zach in the lab, restrained to a bed, crying out for his alien kidnappers. That was going to be him, now, too. They were going to take his mind and turn him into a stupid fucking pet, and the absolute best case scenario he could hope for would be a rescue, followed by an excruciatingly painful reprogramming. And the worst case scenario…

Why couldn't he fucking move? Why couldn't he get free? Why couldn't he be stronger than the whammy they'd put on his brain?

Across from him, Zach was breathing heavily, starting to hyperventilate and thrash against his captor. Before his capture, Zach had always managed to be so calm and reasonable even in the face of terrifying odds -- seeing him react this way fueled the cold fear in Jesse's gut. They were actually done for this time, weren't they?

That's enough talk of escape. It's time to calm down.

The alien holding Zach raised one of its tentacles, which unfurled into a stinger. Zach's eyes went wide as he began to squirm and flinch away from it.

"No, no, please!" he begged. "No, I was done with your fucking drugs! I can't go through it again, I don't want that!"

Quiet, little human. This will not harm you. It will make you feel calm and sleepy.

"No, no, no!" Zach screamed, as a tentacle pulled out his arm and the stinger got him in the crook of his elbow. He went limp immediately, mumbling incoherent protests as he sagged back into the alien's arms.

The alien waved one of its eyes before Zach, who stared up into it without hesitation, lost. That's a good human. Calm and docile. Such a good, obedient human.

"No, I'm not…"

Yes, you are. So calm and docile and sleepy. You remember being ours.

The light was fading from Zach's eyes. "I… remember…"

Jesse realized that he was going to be forced to watch his best friend's mind reduced into pudding. "Zach, no! Don't listen!"

You remember being ours. You are ours again. You are going home.

"Home…" Zach didn't even glance over at Jesse, hypnotic lights reflected in his glassy eyes. "I need… to report to my superior…"

Yes, that's right, little human. Very good.

"Zach, fight it! I know you can," yelled an increasingly desperate Jesse. "Remember how you beat it once? Remember all the treatments?"

And you'll never have to do that again, human. No more cruel lab treatments, no more restraints, no more withholding of the medication you need.

Zach nodded, a dim smile growing on his face. "No more…"

"Zach, listen to me! You can't give up like this. You can't become their pet again. You can't!"

"….going home…" Zach murmured, sinking into a stupor, regressing before Jesse's eyes.

Before Jesse could say anything more, tentacles gripped him more firmly. It's your turn, little human. It's time to give up.

"No, let me go!" A stinger unfurled before Jesse's eyes. He was going to get the same treatment as Zach. Of course he was. That would be him regressing into a pathetic, mindless alien pet. He had only moments to resist.

But no amount of willpower could break him free of those strong tentacles, and he felt the sting of the venom rushing into his arm, the drug the aliens used to help keep humans in line, the one that Zach had fought so hard to recover from. It felt cold. Numb. Heavy. And then his mind clouded over.

He was looking into one of the alien's beautiful hypnotic eyes, his head too heavy to look away. You will be calm and docile. Your mind will sleep. You will relax. You will comply.

Jesse's eyelids drooped. He knew it was important to resist, but all of the thoughts seemed to slip from him before he could grasp onto them.

It feels better to be calm and docile and sleepy.

He did feel good. So much better than he had a minute ago. He slowly nodded.

That's right, little human. Very good. Soon you'll be ours, just like your friend.

Just like Zach. He'd always admired Zach. Always wanted to be just like him.

Just like your friend. A charming, docile, and obedient pet just like your friend.

Just like Zach…

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[londonedge]

The Tate and Lyle sugar refinery and its jetty in Silvertown as seen from the other side of the River Thames.

Apparently approximately 25% of the UK's sugar is offloaded and refined here. Inside there is a huge secret sugar mountain.

[sourcreammachine]

AMY’S BRIDGES

how are you supposed to cross the river in east london?

tower bridge is the last bridge over the thames until the big ol’ suspension bridge way further out. everything else here is tunnels (mostly)

for road tunnels, there’s the rotherhithe tunnel - the tenth most dangerous tunnel in europe due to lax safety features, where large vehicles including busses are banned, and “a rare example of a road tunnel where traffic, pedestrians and cyclists all share the same bore”. for the love of sin, don’t go in that hole. then there’s the blackwall tunnel for road traffic only, which only one bus route uses, and it’s under-construction neighbour the silvertown tunnel, the road traffic-only worst tunnel ever that’ll increase congestion in the docklands, won’t benefit drivers with an easier route, and won’t ease congestion out of blackwall due to not offering alternative modes bar busses

so, then there’s the tunnel of the windrush line, crossing from rotherhithe to wapping and connecting to the DLR and the jubilee. but this line serves central-south london, not south east, where it doesn’t connect to anything. its utility as a crossing in-and-of-itself is really only for the people very close to it anyway. but there’s the jubilee - when approaching from waterloo way on this is a good connection to canary wharf and the dlr. but its last station before the tunnel is at canada water, over a kilometre before the river. it’s worthless as a crossing. out of north greenwich (aka Dome) it’s got two tunnels to canary wharf and canning town - but the only reason you’ll have to cross the river there is if you happen to find yourself on the peninsula. which is why it’s fucking ridiculous that mayor disgraced journalist racist cunt built his zip line there - basically fucking mirroring a route between two tube stations. there is the elizabeth at the end of the docklands, but i don’t know if anyone would use it for the only purpose of crossing the river there, because it’s served by the only ray of hope, the DLR, which plugs greenwich into canary wharf and woolwich into the royal docks. and that’s yer lot

SO

with such awful crossings, the two halves are totally blown apart. road traffic needs to happen, yes, but in a dense cityscape people need to be on the transit systems to reduce the burden. what can we do?

the pool of london is dead. big ships do not need to go up there. london bridge has a clearance of ~9m for river boats, so any bridge we build further out doesn’t need any more clearance. this does mean the Belfast will have to move, unless we’re okay with trapping her in. the top of rotherhithe to limehouse is the best place for a mass transit-only bridge, it may be narrower than tower bridge, and connect two areas that are totally splayed open. there should be some sort of transit mode going vertically from limehouse (for the dlr), up mile end and forking to either hackney or stratford, and down to surrey quays, and then forking to greenwich for the dlr there and west laterally, either north-ish up to elephant & castle or south-ish to brixton, or better yet, both. i say mode because a lot of things could work here, but the best would be a mix of things. here’s my idea

amy fuck presents the Limehouse Bridge

with a length-over-water of 250m, this carfree bridge connects a major transit avenue to an area prime to host connections for the people of southeast london. from the centre of limehouse, exactly where the rotherhithe tunnel’s bendy route emerges, the road south intersects with Cycle Superhighway 3. from CS3, we’ll bulldoze the tired-looking building blocking the view, and fly over to rotherhithe, bulldozing some gentrified townhouses to cut past a playing field to have plugged in to both rotherhithe street and salter road

i propose two primary pubtrans modes using the bridge: the dlr, and trams. expanding the heavy tram network, often more akin to light rail, will be vital to making the transit of central-south london as good as the north, and connecting up the dlr will cement its use in the southeast as well as the northeast

i’ll cover my dlr proposals first, though, perhaps the name docklands would have to be dropped at this point. with possibly a light rail route up north, from the limehouse bridge the light rail network can return round surrey quays to connect into greenwich, creating a vital and necessary corridor. in addition, from greenwich the route can continue to woolwich and the thamesmead extension, creating a lateral backbone to ensure usage of the dlr’s tunnels rather than the road tunnels. in addition, the lateral routes can provide vital transport for the greater southwark area with two branches, one forming a new corridor to elephant & castle, through an area with appalling connections relative to its centrality, maybe even continuing onwards to waterloo or vauxhall, or even to parliament itself. the second is to serve as an area backbone for communities, through bermondsey, peckham, camberwell and brixton, perhaps continuing to battersea or closing the loop at vauxhall. the limehouse bridge will be the linchpin of this new system, its connectivity bringing rotherhithe and the surrey quays to life, becoming a counterweight of humanity against the looming towers of canary wharf

the heavy tram systems i propose, however, i will not illustrate. because i believe they should spread out from their start in wimbledon, croydon and beckenham to form a much larger network for south london, replicating, surpassing the north’s tube, much larger than i can draw today. from limehouse bridge, the heavy tram network can integrate the areas south of the brixton spoke: crystal palace, dulwich, norwood, streatham, clapham, tooting, bromley, lewisham

all of which leaves limehouse bridge: pedestrians, cycle superhighway, light rail, heavy tram, no motor vehicles. a triumph of modern planning, the aorta of the east

so with the dlr from this bridge serving the greenwich and deptford regions, no more crossings will be needed here due to the dlr’s tunnel at the end of the isle of dogs. it’s all plugged in - and the dome has the jubilee tunnels, which could be co-opted by any new over-ground “underground” lines to serve the area if they are needed. destroy the fucking cable car. fell it. yell timber

prioritising those heavy trams now, we can connect charlton through silvertown and eastenders with a new tunnel. with the unnecessary silvertown road tunnel opening 2025, more road connections aren’t needed. so - pubtrans from charlton to newham - then heavy trams in the tunnel like it’s a miniature channel tunnel. also feature pedestrian and cycle access, obviously

there had been suggestions that the suffragette line (formerly the goblin) after barking riverside might cross the river to thamesmead, where that dlr extension might go. do it. this has to be commuter rail now, as we’re threading suburbs together. after that, we’re probably well served enough until the dartford suspension bridge

but… cars and road traffic are an unfortunate reality. with ground broken (or water broken?) on the silvertown tunnel, unholy amounts of heavy traffic are going to be funnelled through greenwich and poplar. removing passengers who can be removed can only help us so much. the unfortunate truth is a woolwich road bridge, replacing the ferry, is a good idea. toll it to high hell obviously, but it should help ease congestion that has now been caused by the silvertown. with plentiful other passenger connections, and ensuring anti-car policies are kept up to make sure only people with a damn good reason are driving through the area, this bridge could be helpful. but of course, without any of that, it would be a polluting, congesting disaster. but we were on a spending spree anyway

anyway. bridges

[one-winged-angels-world]

Fun fact in return to moon:

Clover is Sephiroth's daughter who sent was The Black Materia, while ruby is just stupid blonde girl, as well Luna and her friend back of return to the moon.

Apparently, the two Titan rise again to the silvertown, the location about the moon rise again to the sun.

In the end of chapter 1, send Clover is evil person about it now but Sephiroth is a giant. In chapter 2, ruby explained that the two Titan was purely to the sun and the moon. Was she is now known as "solar eclipse". About them wasn't medical to Clover is, for example, Clover has been rising to Sephiroth. And sent out to The Black Materia.

Soon enough, in the first chapter 5, Clover has a new boyfriend named Shadow the hedgehog. He liked her to look like Maria, but Clover is really version of himself, Maria. In a first episode of sonic X. Who exactly was clover holding with The Black Materia

[haxanbroker]

West Silvertown station, East London, August 2023.

[konstskvaller]

The worst of the London Blitz was centred on the East End, and this painting shows a street in the Silvertown area, close to the docks. The area was devastated and Sutherland found it ‘tremendously moving... mysterious and sad’. Though the houses were mostly abandoned, a few people continued to shelter in the wreckage during a period of social unrest.

Gallery label, May 2007

[joshquagmire]

Welcome to Silvertown, located at Corriganville (in the Simi Valley, a bit north of Los Angeles) where many a TV an' Movie bad hombre bit the dust,  it's Bank was robbed more times than can be remembered... Even John Ford's US Cavalry rode out of Fort Apache at Corriganville and through movie magic, reappeared in Monument Valley...  In the Saloon you might've rubbed elbows with the great and near great,  Randolph Scott, Gene Autry, John Wayne, The Cisco Kid,  Hopalong Cassidy (drinking Sarsaparilla), Edgar Buchanan, Audie Murphy,  Gene Kelly, Robert Mitchum, Max Baer, Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom, Rin-Tin-Tin, Roy Rogers, Clayton Moore & Jay Silverheels (The Lone Ranger & Tonto),  Captain Midnight, Marshal Matt Dillon, Hoss Cartwright an' all his clan to  Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone or Claude Rains from "The Adventures of Robin Hood",  Richard Boone as Paladin, Steve McQueen the bounty hunter, Nick Adams as Johnny Yuma, or Harvey Lembeck as Eric von Zipper... even Ray (crash) Corrigan hisself...

Today it seems its Bronco Bunny and Kalamity Kitty's turn ta shoot it out... But after emptying Kalamity's Navy Colt an' Bronco's rusty 44 without hittin' anything important, they wrestled around in the dust for a bit, till the Director called time... Then they headed for the Silvertown Hotel for a long soak in the bath an' arguing over who got to use the hair conditioner first... It's all gone now, burned to the ground in the 60s by wildfires, but the memories still linger, on celluloid and video tape...