I took a rainy ride on my bike back to Stratford from Victoria Park today. I’d put my camera in my pocket with the idea that I might see some interesting Olympic sights on the developing Olympic site. I’ve caught glimpses from the car and the train but cycling through, I thought, would give me a chance to get up close.
I ended up getting pretty lost and confused as the geography of the Stratford/ Hackney Wick borders has changed thanks to the blue fence. I wanted to go this way but I couldn’t.
Turning around, I found myself down by Hackney Wick station and I was glad for the diversion as I snapped this place that I’d seen a while back from the train.
It was good too, to see the spirit of the Olympics celebrated in skip form.
Eventually I made it to the Greenway and got a great view from there of the Stadium works.
There was a lot of security guards up on the Greenway guarding the access to the site. There’s a strange temporary covered bridge (that I didn’t photograph close up as there were too many official looking henchmen around) that gives access to the site and has two guards on the entrance and signs warning that only “Team Stadium” are allowed inside.
I talked to one of the guards a bit further down and asked him if his job was to stop people getting on to the site who are not supposed to be there. He said that it was. I asked him if anyone had ever tried and he said. “No, not yet”. He also told me that his job was very boring unless people came by and talked to him. It was funny to think of him as one of the often quoted gainfully employed locals that the Olympic construction work has provided a job for.
On that note, I took this nostalgic photo too, representative of the industry that the site has displaced. 
Kay
