It really made me chuckle, especially when I looked down the road and saw....
a different world from the one I taught in.
Abbey Wood, an outlying suburb of London, is an over crowded expanse of houses sitting between Woolwich and the sewage plant for south east London.
It boasts the main route into Thamesmead, which is on the Lesness marshes, and now has a decent rail link to London (it was always good but now its better) and a stones throw from the Docklands light railway.
It has traffic coming out of its ears as its on the only main road along the south side of the river (I suppose you could say it's the equivalent of the A13 without modern intersections) and trucks thunder through all day long.
I looked up the road in Kings Hill; if it gets cars they'll be few a far between and none at the weekend as it leads to a carpark for the companies operating in that area.
From dust to diamond it's quite a comparison