Sunday afternoon, starting at the embankment, underneath the Blackfriars bridge and tracing the Fleet River's course north through Clerkenwell, Kings Cross, Camden, and maybe even as far as Hampstead depending on our stamina.
We will be taking pub breaks for refreshment, but it primarily a walk, rather than a pub crawl, so please wear sensible shoes and warm clothes. Feel free, in fact, you are *encouraged* to bring any kind of literary or historical references which you may care to share.
If you are interested, please note your interest here. I will email my mobile to anyone who wishes to join us, but obviously do not wish to post it here.
― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)
http://www.smokelondon.co.uk
― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)
it sounds a nice idea
our fap wz just three ppl, no? (as daveb insisted he was "not at it")
i prefer the word "select"
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)
Is Smoke worth getting, Kate?
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)
this fleet street walk gets mentioned v favourably in Underground London by Stephen Smith, a quite good book on tunnels.
if i wasn't on holiday, i would go.
― Pete W (peterw), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)
― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)
― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)
― aimurchie (aimurchie), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)
― Deerninja B4rim4, Plus-Tech Whizz Kid (Barima), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)
It's funny the sudden interest in rivers... some of my walker friends have taken to scum-walking - following Dublin's rivers from the sea to their sources.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)
If this goes well, I plan to follow up with an Effra Walk (we can conjoin with South London FAP) and a River Lee or Lea walk (obviously!) and when the weather is good, a Regents Canal walk! There will be more advance warning for those, I hope.
Sorry, I should have given more advance warning for this. (And made it not on Mother's Day which is what everyone is complaining.) But I was too busy looking for lost rivers in Paris.
Oh yes, and Smoke - well worth the price of admission!
― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)
Please please please let the weather hold...
― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Sunday, 6 March 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)
thanks kate for the tour.
i have a bunch of pics.. will load them when i get home!
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 7 March 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)
Thanks to everybody that came along! It was indeed fun! More irreverant and irrelevant architectural walking tours are needed... play the Sacred Geometry of Spider Maps. (Ha ha! The 109 and the 118 follow the 19/38 archetype.) Simon ventured the "Pi" Bus Route - it never repeats!
What do you fancy next? The Effra (50 yards of which is actually above ground!) or the River Lee or Lea (all of which is above ground)?
― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Monday, 7 March 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)
― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 7 March 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)
We did get quite far - from Blackfriars up to Camden, so I don't think that Hackney Marshes would be over-ambitious.
― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Monday, 7 March 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 7 March 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)
we must keep a look out for skinned bears obv (ie i am in providing i am in london)
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 March 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 7 March 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)
― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)