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Upcoming Scheduled Walks
Sun 19 Apr
Cutty Sark
Riverside Greenwich has been home home to kings and queens; astronomers and navigators; poets and privateers; and many more.
Tue 05 May
Waterloo Station
Follow a spectacular riverbank route from St Thomas’s Hospital and the Covid Memorial Wall opposite the Houses of Parliament to Lambeth Palace. From here it takes in some of the lesser-known corners of Lambeth.
Tue 19 May
High Street Kensington Station
An introduction to the diversity of the Royal Borough: a walk that moves from a shopping mecca and a royal residence to the fringes of “The Belly” (Portobello Road to you and me).
Tue 09 Jun
All Hallows by Tower Church
2.5hrs: Outlining the main events of Roman rule, which covered nearly 400 years, the walk will take in some of the best-preserved stretches of the Roman city wall before heading for the sites of the Forum and Basilica, the Amphitheatre and the Fort.
Sat 13 Jun
All Hallows by Tower Church
Explore the twists, turns and curious secrets of the City’s hidden byways. The route will introduce, amongst other curiosities: Dick Whittington’s London address, the Livery Companies always at ‘sixes and sevens’, the grave of Mother Goose, the mice that were said to have killed a man.
Thu 02 Jul
Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain
This circular walk goes on to discover: a famous food store founded on the profits from second-hand candles; Sir Christopher Wren’s only West End church; the addresses of three royal mistresses; a great art gallery in a splendid mansion; and a fashionable shopping arcade.
Thu 13 Aug
Children of the Kindertransport
Once an unhealthy fen, the district was for centuries grindingly poor. Its ancient Bone Hill became a burial ground for dissenters, it was the second home of a
madhouse popularly known as Bedlam, and its church was christened “Lousy St Luke’s”.
Sat 19 Sept
St Lawrence Jewry
Although we think of Shakespeare as ‘the man from Stratford’, he spent most of his creative life in London, and the city left its mark on him. This walk leads through the core of Shakespeare’s London to where he worked and where he spent his leisure time with friends and fellow writers.
Sat 17 Oct
St. Paul's Cathedral
This circular walk concentrates on the seamier side of London, and invites walkers to encounter a range of cheats, frauds, thieves, whores and cold-blooded killers.
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