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Quantum Cloud and Slice of Reality (1999) The Quantum Cloud is a sculpture located in the River Thames next to the Millennium Dome. It is 30 metres high and designed by Antony Gormley. It is constructed from a collection of tetrahedral units made from 1.5 m long sections of steel. In designing Quantum Cloud, Antony Gormley was influenced by Basil Hiley, quantum physicist. The idea for Quantum Cloud came from Hiley’s thoughts on pre-space as a mathematical structure underlying space-time and matter. The nearby ’Slice of Reality’ by Richard Wilson comprises of a sliced vertical section of an ocean going sand dredger. The original ship was reduced in length by 85%, leaving a vertical portion housing the ships habitable sections: bridge, poop, accommodation and engine room. The slicing of the vessel opened the structure, leaving it exposed to the effects of weather and tide.
Credit: Andy Roberts
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The Greenwich Peninsula and points east (1870) We are returning to the beauty of the 1870 series from the Ordnance Survey. Poplar - in the top left of the map - was as built up then as now. The Thames flows the same course. Everything else, 150 or so years ago, is rather different. In most recent memory, were the thriving docks on the Isle of Dogs. A rather poor population - men, boys and some women - in Poplar, Cubitt Town and Millwall were employed in the various jobs associated with the trade which made the British Empire rich. On the south bank of the river, Greenwich Marshes dominate all the way east to the built-up area of Woolwich. The Woolwich Dockyard was an important facility but you’d never know it from this map. It’s a secret - a blank space as far as the Ordnance Survey was concerned. It was well into the 1900s before maps were allowed to show it. Opposite the Greenwich peninsula, on the other bank from the O2, is a sugar refinery. Remarkably, Tate & Lyle are still in the area even after all this time. Behind the factory is the Victoria Dock, the first of the Royal Docks-to-be, and a notable addition to an area which was largely marshland before this. Custom House to the north of the dock administers the show. It has its own station on the North Woolwich branch line which heads to Silvertown. Back on the Greenwich Marsh, a chemical works has arrived amidst the meadows. This was the first of much toxic industry to arrive here. This polluted the soil so much that heavy metals had to be removed for years before the development of the inevitable box-shaped apartment blocks of North Greenwich
Credit: Ordnance Survey
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East Greenwich gasometer, Blackwall Lane The 19th century gasometer frame in Blackwall Lane, just south of the tunnel entrance and the Millennium Dome (still to be built when this was taken). The framework made intriguing geometric patterns as we sailed down the river aboard the Thames barge ’Pudge’.
Credit: Stephen Williams
Licence: CC BY 2.0


Towers of the Emirates Air Line gondola lift cable car, from the north bank of the River Thames.
Credit: Nick Cooper
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Quantum Cloud and Slice of Reality (1999) The Quantum Cloud is a sculpture located in the River Thames next to the Millennium Dome. It is 30 metres high and designed by Antony Gormley. It is constructed from a collection of tetrahedral units made from 1.5 m long sections of steel. In designing Quantum Cloud, Antony Gormley was influenced by Basil Hiley, quantum physicist. The idea for Quantum Cloud came from Hiley’s thoughts on pre-space as a mathematical structure underlying space-time and matter. The nearby ’Slice of Reality’ by Richard Wilson comprises of a sliced vertical section of an ocean going sand dredger. The original ship was reduced in length by 85%, leaving a vertical portion housing the ships habitable sections: bridge, poop, accommodation and engine room. The slicing of the vessel opened the structure, leaving it exposed to the effects of weather and tide.
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Celebrations in River Way, date unknown
Credit: Unknown
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Ceylon Place, SE10
Credit: London Metropolitan Archives
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The Greenwich Peninsula and points east (1870) We are returning to the beauty of the 1870 series from the Ordnance Survey. Poplar - in the top left of the map - was as built up then as now. The Thames flows the same course. Everything else, 150 or so years ago, is rather different. In most recent memory, were the thriving docks on the Isle of Dogs. A rather poor population - men, boys and some women - in Poplar, Cubitt Town and Millwall were employed in the various jobs associated with the trade which made the British Empire rich. On the south bank of the river, Greenwich Marshes dominate all the way east to the built-up area of Woolwich. The Woolwich Dockyard was an important facility but you’d never know it from this map. It’s a secret - a blank space as far as the Ordnance Survey was concerned. It was well into the 1900s before maps were allowed to show it. Opposite the Greenwich peninsula, on the other bank from the O2, is a sugar refinery. Remarkably, Tate & Lyle are still in the area even after all this time. Behind the factory is the Victoria Dock, the first of the Royal Docks-to-be, and a notable addition to an area which was largely marshland before this. Custom House to the north of the dock administers the show. It has its own station on the North Woolwich branch line which heads to Silvertown. Back on the Greenwich Marsh, a chemical works has arrived amidst the meadows. This was the first of much toxic industry to arrive here. This polluted the soil so much that heavy metals had to be removed for years before the development of the inevitable box-shaped apartment blocks of North Greenwich
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Emirates Air Line in London
Credit: Flickr/snappyhopper
Licence: CC BY 2.0