PUBLISHED: 15:05 28 April 2018 Gallows Corner is now 48 years old. Picture: Ken Mears Archant As the landmark closes in on its half century, Prof Ged Martin looks at the history of Gallows Corner We’re just two years away from the fiftieth birthday of Havering’s least popular landmark, Gallows Corner’s “temporary” flyover. It’s time to plan the party! Gallows Corner was a wayside junction where Straight Road met the ancient London-Colchester highway. Havering once hanged its criminals here. When the new A12 Eastern Avenue – A127 Southend Arterial Road was built in the 1920s, it became a five-way roundabout. The quiet byway Straight Road became the main traffic outlet for Harold Hill, built between 1948 and 1958. Two-mile tailbacks followed. The solution, in 1957, a bigger roundabout, was a temporary fix. In 1968, the government promised a “temporary flyover” for Gallows Corner. In January 1970, Parliament was told that the … [Read more...] about Heritage: Gallows Corner ‘temporary’ flyover nears 50th birthday
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AT&T’s Earnings Through Two Different Lenses
AT&T Inc. earnings hit after the close of trading today, and investors need to keep two possible scenarios in mind as they look at the numbers: 1) that the company’s Time Warner Inc. takeover gets done and allows the wireless giant to morph into a powerful media conglomerate a la Comcast Corp., or 2) that none of that happens, and what you get is what you see.Without the deal, AT&T’s weaknesses will be more pronounced and its next chapter will be left open-ended—not to mention that nearly two years of planning, negotiations, adviser fees and legals costs will have been for nothing. If the deal does get done, the wireless-service and pay-TV provider’s bundling opportunities and bargaining power will be greatly enhanced, though it will also have to contend with an unprecedented level of debt that must be balanced against a dividend-hungry investor crowd and a costly but crucial 5G-network build. … [Read more...] about AT&T’s Earnings Through Two Different Lenses