The once derelict site which is now London’s Olympic Park has revealed everything from cobbled streets from the Roman days to old cars, refrigerators and now four prehistoric skeletons have been found under the Aquatic Centre.

Archaeologists at the Museum of London are now examining the find while the billion dollar regeneration of the park in the east end suburb of Stratford continues at pace.

 London Olympic Park is the biggest construction zone in Europe with 6,000 people building the competition venues for the Games in 2012 and another 3,000 working on the Olympic Village.

The Games are still a little under two years away but already the main stadium construction is almost finished. The seats which will hold 80,000 spectators are going in.

London has promised a green Games. The trees and plants are in place and they are creating a wetland for birds in the middle of the Park.

The Park is very compact. It will be a public transport Games. Spectators will come by bus or train and leave the car at home with the nearest parking 30 kilometres away. A new tube train called the Javelin will move 25,000 people an hour from Kings Cross Station to Stratford.

Frank Lowy’s Westfield Group is building the front door to the Park, a shopping centre which will be the biggest in Europe. Seventy per cent of visitors will walk through the shopping centre to access the Olympic Park.

Although the Park is only 2.5 kilometres long, organisers expect as many as 250,000 people a day during the Games. Not everyone will have a ticket but events will be shown live on huge screens.

Mike Tancred
AOC