--- In [email protected], "John and Ann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > By no less an organ than the Daily Telegraph (now you know which paper this > boater reads) today snips:- > > A down at heel and niffy part of London will bear the name of Prescott > forever. BW yesterday announced a £15m lock and flood control structure on > the R Lea , which will be essential to the Olympics, it will be called > Prescott sluices. It's close to where a storm outfall for the East End > sewers enters the river and has been called Prescott channel since the > 1930s. Officials ..revealed by their grins yesterday that the structure > will always be associated with their former boss. (Snips) there will be a > more important function of preventing raw sewage reaching the Olympic Park. > Mark Bensted, BW London director, said `This is the most important waterway > restoration project in the country'. And of course it will perpetuate the > name of Prescott. > > Seems to me there's more than one topic for discussion here!!!! > > John > > >
Indeed, like the allotments! http://www.flickr.com/photos/loopzilla/189959592/ The Prescott Channel is a few hundred yards long. It has houses and further down allotments on the East side and Three Mills Green on the West side. Dr F. Ordo ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/ygtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
