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Silver Surfers' Day 2007 (SSD 07) at Manor Gardens Allotments.

by LoopZilla | May 27, 2007 at 01:43 am

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Manor Gardens Allotments in East London took part in Silver Surfers' Day 2007 on Friday 25th May 2007 by linking the allotments to the Internet by wireless link to premises in Clays Lane, about 400 metres distant.

A mast was set up at the allotments, 12 volt car and boat batteries used to provide power, along with some solar panels.

The local network had half a dozen laptop computers, with map making and scanning on the day, for remenisence and archival.

Both Manor Gardens Allotments and Clays Lane estate are being cleared in July 2007 to prepare the way for the construction of the London 2012 Olympics site.

Many other sites face change as part of the developments that will deliver the London 2012 Olympics, and dramatic changes will affect the waterways (the Bow Back Rivers). These waterways are the responsibility of British Waterways: Manor Gardens remains an oasis of calm, over a bridge of the River Lea, tucked behind a trading estate.

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dowdinsk

at 05:18 on May 27th, 2007

nptech: Linux-flashed WRTs enabled the link to Clays Lane. In addition to laptops runing OS X, XP and Ubuntu, there were scanners as participants had been requested to bring along old photos and memories of the historic site for archiving. The battery set up wasn't sufficient to run everthing at once though and so the inverter started to beep when the demand overloaded it, and there wasn't time to build the lightweight mast structure rigid enough to support the windcharger500.

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British Waterways' impoundment of the Lee inland delta is to alter the ecology of this tideway running through the proposed Olympic Park and north through Hackney Marshes to Lea Bridge, more at Games Monitor

Jordan Yerman

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at 08:44 on May 27th, 2007

LoopZilla, fantastic work: true citizen journalism in action. Good stuff.

liamssoft

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at 02:28 on May 28th, 2007

LoopZilla, it's authentic. fight for your rights, Good stuff.

dowdinsk

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at 11:13 on May 28th, 2007

LoopZilla, I like this story. For another view of the Prescott Barrage and the Lee impoundment there's West Ham Allotments of course. It's good stuff.