Mountain Grill

[Jon Jarrett]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Henderson Keith wrote:

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> Does anybody know where the school playground with the jungle gym is? (from
> the photo collage of the band on the insert record sleeve)...I've expected
> to run into it (the playground, not necessarily the jungle gym itself, which
> has probably rusted away to nothing by now) while walking around the LG
> area, but not so far.

        It's almost certainly gone now I fear. The last few years have
seen a fairly wholesale replacement of children's play-areas (where they
haven't just been built over) and their equipment so as to have cushioned
tarmac to prevent (serious) injuries if a child falls. So if it had lasted
this long, it'd most likely have been replaced recently.

> If you take a (surface) train into Victoria station from the south (or vice
> versa), you'll go right past the old Battersea power station (unless it's
> fallen over already), which is famous from the Pink Floyd Animals cover art,
> among other things I imagine.  I remember my first time on this rail line,
> being half asleep and finally waking up to see this oddly familiar thing
> filling the whole window of the train car...I had to blink and rub my eyes
> for a minute to make sure I wasn't still dreaming.

        I go past that so much, it'd never occurred to me it was an
international landmark :-) I knew it from kids' TV years before I saw the
Floyd album. However even that gave me a brief "wow!" moment when I first
saw it for real. Wreck of a place, brings to mind bits of Anglo-Saxon
history about mistaking Roman ruins for buildings of giants... or perhaps
that's just to my mind. Anyway! Yours,
                                        Jon

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