Thames Cycle Path Closed

Due to a fire on the Cutty Sark, the Thames Cycle Path through
Greenwich, and the Greenwich Foot Tunnel, have been closed.

Perhaps keeping wooden ships in dry dock is not such a good idea.

Tom Crispin wrote:

Due to a fire on the Cutty Sark, the Thames Cycle Path through
Greenwich, and the Greenwich Foot Tunnel, have been closed.

The whole of Greenwich was closed, roads and all. Mainly due to the
belief there were gas cylinders involved.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6675381.stm

"Greenwich town centre in south-east London has been closed to traffic
and the Docklands Light Railway shut.

The ship was currently undergoing a £25m renovation and was closed to
visitors.

Eight fire engines were sent to tackle the fire which started shortly
before 0500 BST.

Speaking to BBC News the Chief Executive of the Cutty Sark Trust,
Richard Doughty, said the fire brigade told him they were treating the
fire as suspicious. "

Perhaps keeping wooden ships in dry dock is not such a good idea.

Being made of wood has nothing to do with it, do you remeber the Queen
Elizabeth or the Normadie? Both steel ships that sank in flames whilst
being refurbished afloat.
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

Tom Crispin wrote on 21/05/2007 07:09 +0100:
Due to a fire on the Cutty Sark, the Thames Cycle Path through
Greenwich, and the Greenwich Foot Tunnel, have been closed.

Perhaps keeping wooden ships in dry dock is not such a good idea.

Keeping them in dry dock is fine but as usual, letting workmen on them
to restore them is a very bad idea. Cue footage of Windsor Castle and
numerous other heritage workemen fires (although this may have been
external and deliberate listening to the TV news)

By the way does anyone find it odd that the BBC with their 5-25kW RF
transmitters should be having a go at 100mW WiFi transmitters? Grass
Houses and Thrones?

--
Tony

"The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there
is no good evidence either way."
- Bertrand Russell

In article , Phil Cook
says...
Tom Crispin wrote:

Due to a fire on the Cutty Sark, the Thames Cycle Path through
Greenwich, and the Greenwich Foot Tunnel, have been closed.

The whole of Greenwich was closed, roads and all. Mainly due to the
belief there were gas cylinders involved.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6675381.stm

"Greenwich town centre in south-east London has been closed to traffic
and the Docklands Light Railway shut.

The ship was currently undergoing a £25m renovation and was closed to
visitors.

It's going to need more than that now - souvenir ashes, anyone?

Rob Morley wrote:

In article , Phil Cook
says...
Tom Crispin wrote:

Due to a fire on the Cutty Sark, the Thames Cycle Path through
Greenwich, and the Greenwich Foot Tunnel, have been closed.

The whole of Greenwich was closed, roads and all. Mainly due to the
belief there were gas cylinders involved.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6675381.stm

"Greenwich town centre in south-east London has been closed to traffic
and the Docklands Light Railway shut.

The ship was currently undergoing a £25m renovation and was closed to
visitors.

It's going to need more than that now - souvenir ashes, anyone?

Fortunately Cutty Sark was composite iron-wood construction and the
masts and spars were elsewhere at the time as was 50 percent of the
planking. It's still going to be a Big Job though :-(
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

On May 21, 9:53 am, Phil Cook wrote:
Rob Morley wrote:
In article , Phil Cook
says...
Tom Crispin wrote:

Due to a fire on the Cutty Sark, the Thames Cycle Path through
Greenwich, and the Greenwich Foot Tunnel, have been closed.

The whole of Greenwich was closed, roads and all. Mainly due to the
belief there were gas cylinders involved.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6675381.stm

"Greenwich town centre in south-east London has been closed to traffic
and the Docklands Light Railway shut.

The ship was currently undergoing a £25m renovation and was closed to
visitors.

It's going to need more than that now - souvenir ashes, anyone?

Fortunately Cutty Sark was composite iron-wood construction and the
masts and spars were elsewhere at the time as was 50 percent of the
planking. It's still going to be a Big Job though :-(

At least they don't need to kill off the rot with environmentally
unfriendly chemicals now it has been heat- sterilised.
Every cloud has a silver lining ;-)

...d

Phil Cook wrote:
Rob Morley wrote:

In article , Phil Cook
says...
Tom Crispin wrote:

Due to a fire on the Cutty Sark, the Thames Cycle Path through
Greenwich, and the Greenwich Foot Tunnel, have been closed.
The whole of Greenwich was closed, roads and all. Mainly due to the
belief there were gas cylinders involved.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6675381.stm

"Greenwich town centre in south-east London has been closed to traffic
and the Docklands Light Railway shut.

The ship was currently undergoing a £25m renovation and was closed to
visitors.

It's going to need more than that now - souvenir ashes, anyone?

Fortunately Cutty Sark was composite iron-wood construction and the
masts and spars were elsewhere at the time as was 50 percent of the
planking. It's still going to be a Big Job though :-(

They should probably just build a complete new hull. The wood that's
left will be the stuff thats's too damp and rotten to burn and the iron
parts were already dissolving into rusty sludge. It'd be far more
interesting as a sailable ship than than as a mouldering relic anyway.

Rob Morley wrote:
Due to a fire on the Cutty Sark, the Thames Cycle Path through
Greenwich, and the Greenwich Foot Tunnel, have been closed.

What awful hypocrisy to close the cycle path.

Surely with a little ingenuity and bike carrying, possibly some
climbing, it would be '' possible '' to get across or through the
debris.It might be very dangerous, but any cyclist in the habit of
using such facilities is not the type to be so easily put off.

And now the poor motorists may find their roads used by less important
people.
Should we use the pavement instead?

TerryJ

On May 21, 11:04 am, TerryJ wrote:
Rob Morley wrote:
Due to a fire on the Cutty Sark, the Thames Cycle Path through
Greenwich, and the Greenwich Foot Tunnel, have been closed.

What awful hypocrisy to close the cycle path.

Surely with a little ingenuity and bike carrying, possibly some
climbing, it would be '' possible '' to get across or through the
debris.It might be very dangerous, but any cyclist in the habit of
using such facilities is not the type to be so easily put off.

And now the poor motorists may find their roads used by less important
people.
Should we use the pavement instead?

I asked a nice copper if he minded me returning the wrong way along a
short section of the gyratory. He said "just keep to the left". The
ride down to the woolwich ferry was lovely with no traffic on the main
rode (even managed to catch a fire engine draft for some of the way).
I bumped into a colleague and we had a pleasant pootle through some of
the remaining post inductrial wasteland of north woolwich that I
fondly recall from childhood.

best wishes
james

On May 21, 8:34 am, Tony Raven wrote:
By the way does anyone find it odd that the BBC with their 5-25kW RF
transmitters should be having a go at 100mW WiFi transmitters? Grass
Houses and Thrones?

Not at all *odd*. Hypocritical, yes.

If I had an hour to spare, I'd be interested to see if the inverse
square law is mentioned. I noticed they were comparing terminals to
base stations on the extended trailer on the Jeremy Vine show on the
radio just now.
--
A