Very quick post about the London to Brighton cycle that I participated in with others a couple of weeks ago. There were four of us in our team from work and the story as to why we were doing it is long but essentially we were taking part to show our support for our work …
Olymble
Well the day finally came on Saturday when along with 4,999 others I got the opportunity to run 5 miles around the London 2012 Olympic Park and finish inside the Olympic Stadium down the home straight in front of thousands of applauding spectators. A day that will be long remembered. Regular readers will know that …
Sadlers Farm Junction Improvements
Stopped by and took some photographs of the ongoing works at Sadlers Farm this afternoon. Was a bit grey and only had my small camera but they came out okay. Included below are some of the new Church Road bridge and the highway either side plus some taken from the new London Road bridge looking …
Crossrail Whitechapel Progress
The other day - whilst passing through London in the daylight - I continued on my District Line tube train and stopped off in Whitechapel to see if I could see anything of the construction work going on in the area for the new Whitechapel Crossrail Station which will ultimately link the underground, overground and Crossrail in …
Southend Connexions 2012
ICE Essex recently supported a careers fair for Southend 13-19 students held at the Southend Connexions centre in Shoeburyness. It was a full day affair with students bussed in from the many schools in the area. I was there for the day and was ably assisted by Laing O'Rourke graduate engineer Matthew (Matt) Fitch. We …
London Prepares – International Mountain Biking
In glorious sunshine I and my two kids spent the afternoon at the Hadleigh Olympic Mountain Biking Venue today to watch the London Prepares event. We were not able to get there in the morning and so missed the women's event. We got there at around 1pm having caught the shuttle bus from Leigh-on-Sea station …
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2012 Mountain Biking Venue, Hadleigh, Essex.
This afternoon I took a quick trip out to see what I could see of the newly created mountain biking course for the 2012 Olympics in Hadleigh, Essex. I have to say that I was actually quite impressed. There is plenty of info out there on the course if you search for it and far …
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