An illustrated walk around the City of London. With a new book of London walks in hand, we retrace the first 24 hours of the 1666 Great Fire, and see what remains of pre-Fire London and the subsequent rebuild. New Book, New Walks I think I’ve been fairly transparent with my readers. I had done […]
In this walk I investigate the history of my own neighbourhood. Wapping has plenty of sights and points of interest, where Georgian docks, maritime history and modern regeneration combine. Welcome To My Neighbourhood! By now, I hope you are familiar with our walks around London’s Docklands, following Gilly Cameron-Cooper’s Walking London’s Waterways. With the help […]
A walk through Spitalfields, exploring the ever-changing nature of this London neighbourhood. Along the way we will see traces of its Jewish, Bangladeshi, Huguenot and weaving populations. Another Walk Courtesy of Tower Hamlets Council Like our recent Black History Walk in Tower Hamlets, the inspiration for today’s post came from this page of local history […]
A walk from Bethnal Green Station to the Limehouse Basin, along the Regent’s Canal. A good way to explore the area, with options to stop off in some city parks. Through Urban East London to a Green Space A lot of the land around East London has long been densely urban. As well as all […]
An illustrated walk along the Thames, taking in many of London’s historic curiosities. Theatres and sewers and docks, oh my! Picking Up Where We Left Off Today’s walk is a continuation of this earlier walk which started in Chelsea and ended in Westminster. The walk comes from John Wittich’s 1973 book Discovering London’s Curiosities. As […]
A circular walking tour around Island Gardens and Mudchute. This end of the Isle of Dogs is much less visited than Greenwich just over the river, but nonetheless offers many interesting sights. Plus a farm! A Forgotten Spot Between Two Bigger Draws The Isle of Dogs is an interesting place. We don’t 100% know where […]
A walking tour through the remaining traces of Roman London. This walk is a companion to the earlier tour of Londinium’s Roman walls. Roman sites are few and far between today, but nonetheless anchor us to history and the city’s origins. We Begin Our Walk – Cleary Gardens and the London Mithraeum A Walking Tour […]
An illustrated walk along the North Greenwich section of The Line. While the full art walk probably can’t be done at once under current guidelines, the section around the North Greenwich peninsula contains plenty of interest for a socially-distanced outing. London’s First Public Art Walk The Line describes itself on its website as London’s first […]
An illustrated walk along the Thames from Chelsea to Westminster, exploring various London curiosities along the way. Exploring Further Along the Thames: Chelsea to Westminster Those of you who regularly read my blog posts will be getting well-acquainted with the Docklands and City of London by now. We have been on walks around Wapping, Rotherhithe, […]
An illustrated walk around the precincts of St Paul’s Cathedral by night, following in the footsteps of a 1940s guidebook. I couldn’t get as close to the cathedral as the book suggested, but noticed a lot of details I had never spotted before. Exploring Post-Blitz London From The 21st Century I bought London for Everyman […]
