2008.

Ten years ago, the M11 link road was completed, connecting the Blackwall Tunnel to the M11 motorway in East London. The road had been first proposed in the 1930s and was finally built following a passionate protest waged by local residents, artists and environmental campaigners over more than twenty years.

Almost 400 houses were demolished alongside the route of the new road during its construction, leaving a legacy today of numerous cul-de-sacs and truncated streets in which residents look out not onto their neighbours as in the past, but onto a brick wall shielding the road behind.