Oct 2014 - my london diary

	Deptford to Greenwich Deptford and Greenwich, Thu 9 Oct 2014
	Ahoy Sailing Centre and Deptford Green. There is now a riverside path on what was the power station site Deptford Power Station jetty The estate on the power station site is called Millennium Quay
	On the corner of Deptford Creek is a monument to Peter the Great who spent some time at Deptford drinking and hell-raising when he was supposedly studying shipbuilding here for 3 months in 1698. John Evelyn who he was lodging with at Sayes Court got rather annoyed when his Russian mates pushed the comatose drunk Peter in a wheelbarrow through his holly hedge and ruined it. There are now large numbers of students living in Deptford, but they are much better behaved. The monument in Glaisher St is by Russian sculptor Mikhail Shemyakin The jester with astronomical instruments is perhaps telling us that the visit and study was not too serious but frankly I think it's an incredible bit of kitsch and a failry obsure Russian joke. I think the building work is to make a footbridge across the creek The base for a footbridge across the creek that is being built
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