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1 April 2013

Walk on Beckton Beach

One of the few places in London where the waters are clear enough to swim when the temperatures are right, Beckton Beach was formed using sand brought to the site for use in the old gasworks and waters softly cleansed by Sizdah Bedar Reeds.


When the weather fails to raise the temperatures high enough for swimming and buckets and spades, nature-lovers can still be found on Beckton Beach, and reports of whale sightings and also otters and the rare poisson d’avril continue to attract many in the winter months, whilst in the evenings drinkers come to enjoy a sunset tipple in the champagne bar at Gallions Point Marina.

For more, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beckton_Beach

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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous1 April 2013 at 10:16

    Love it! :-D

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  2. this is lemonade1 April 2013 at 23:17

    Haha you got me! I skim-read through because I was thinking, no, Beckton doesn't have a beach, especially not one that looks like that, must be some other Beckton. But I caught the reference to "Gallions Point Marina" and gasworks so was intrigued enough to click through on the link... Lol, although if I'd read it properly and seen the whales and otters and "poisson d'avril", you'd have been rumbled...serves me right :D

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  3. Michelle2 April 2013 at 11:54

    Gutted, I actually wanted to go :(

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  4. Anonymous3 April 2013 at 10:59

    Ha ha ha! I wish!!!!

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