Where is happiness to be found?

Where is happiness to be found? (1)

Stratford, recognised as one of London’s most deprived areas, has had a huge amount of money pumped into it, but will this money actually benefit local people? Or, will the inevitable price rises lock them out?

Where is happiness to be found? (2)

A security guard is dwarfed by a god-like figure at Westfield shopping centre, Stratford.

One heartbeat away

Estimates for the cost of the Games, a two-week sporting event, are as high as £10 billion. How will this affect people’s lives in a recession?

Way to Salvation

With their bags of shopping people leave Stratford, the new consumer paradise.

Wanderings in an Olympic Wonderland (Part 2)

This is a good question to ask,

and one that people often ask themselves.

On our wanders around Stratford we also asked this question.

Specifically in relation to the people who live in the borough.

How will the Olympics affect the people in the area?

Will it be positive? Beneficial?

Or, will it be negative?

Will the new construction of flats and a shopping centre make the area better for locals?

Or, with a rise in the cost of living,

will it force people out

and split the community?