Thamesmead as a new and better alternative through the eyes of two small children who live in older, dilapidated flats on the other side of the city. The Tavy Bridge area of Thamesmead South, including Southmere Lake, was used as a setting for the Stanley Kubrick film "A Clockwork Orange" and also the play and Channel 4 gay coming-of-age film "Beautiful Thing". British TV Drama "Misfits" was also filmed in Thamesmead. Many scenes take place around Southmere Lake, while Bexley College was once also used as a setting. The estate featured in The Libertines video What Became of the Likely Lads.
Thamesmead railway station from Gallions Reach and an extension of the London Overground to Abbey Wood Gallions Reach is one stop from the terminus Beckton, so it would create a new cut-off branch from Gallions Reach. This idea was first brought on up on 8 December 2015, which had a proposal to extend it to Thamesmead and on to Abbey Wood. The Thamesmead district, which is on the border of the Greenwich and Bexley boroughs, has poor transport links. The estate was built from the 1960s and despite proposals for a train station, including the Jubilee Line Extension proposal in the 1970s, plans