--- 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








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