...A.E.J Collins scored 628 not out over four afternoons, the highest ever recorded score in a game of cricket, he was just 13 years old. Seeing as all this occurred in Clifton in Bristol you could be forgiven for wondering what it has to do with residential development in London. The connection is this, a few years after the famous match Collins joined the army as a trainee engineer, specifically he enrolled at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, the same site which Durkan are currently developing into 328 residential flats, cunningly renamed The Academy. Predominantly the scheme is new build with some private elements to be housed in the refurbished Academy itself. Works on the new build element look largely complete:
The refurbishment however doesn't look like it's started:
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