Greenwich Wheel Comes Down

The Greenwich Wheel that gave visitors excellent views across Greenwich over the Summer was yesterday taken down. Simon Starr’s excellent Cutty Sark Webcam was briliantly positioned to capture the Wheel coming down, so here’s a couple of image grabs which he kindly gave permission for me to use that show exactly how it happened.

Image one shows the wheel on Sunday – before work started on bringing it down.

By 09.57 on Tuesday, the pods have been taken off.

A pigeon swoops past the webcam – nice action shot!

It can be seen now that a segment has been removed and it’s starting to look like Pacman munching on those trees.

By 5pm, it’s well over half way down and has been turned around too.

And today, the Greenwich Wheel is gone – will it be back next year?