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Deptford - a Bobby's Beat in 1899 Lower your eyebrows O ye of little faith. A walk through Deptford? Surely not, I hear you say. Scoff not - this will prove to be one of the most fascinating walks so far, whether you walk the walk, listen to it, or follow it on Google Streetview as I know lots of you do. So, suspend your unbelief and follow me through Deptford. Or - follow Sergeant Vanstone as he walks his beat on 25th and 26th July in the year 1899. Yes - this is an actual walk and we follow much of the route he took.
Serg ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Abbey Road - from Little Venice to the Beatles and Sherlock HolmesI'm glad I thought of this walk. We start at Warwick Avenue Underground Station (Zone 2 on the Bakerloo Line - just one stop north of Paddington) and finish on the Circle & District Line platform of Baker Street, the worl'd first underground railway opened in 1863. Baker Street is also on the Metropolitan, Bakerloo, Jubilee and Hammersmith & City lines.
The walking is easy. There are lovely houses and interesting places to see. Most of the route is free of the noisiest traffic. Like ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | London on a budget of less than $2 a day
Londoners call the Transport for London Barclays Cycle Hire scheme Boris Bikes after Mayor Boris Johnson.
Started in July 2010, Londoners could rent sturdy bicycles from around 400 docking stations scattered around the central zone. Once registered, you paid £3 for a plastic dongle which would release bicycles from their stands and automatically charge an access fee of £1 for the 24 hour period. Payment could alternatively be for 7 days (£5 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Follow the Roman City Wall Part 2
We pick up the London Wall walk again at the Museum of London.
If you are continuing the route from Part 1 you will be at this point. If you are just doing this part of the walk, then you should start from St Paul's Underground station (Central Line, zone 1) and take Exit 2 then walk up St Martin's Le Grand to the Museum.
This concluding part of the London Wall walk starts with a visit to the Roman Londinium galleries in the museum, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Follow the Roman City Wall - Part 1
From about 120 AD the Romans enclosed the capital city of Roman Britain, Londinium with a wall. No one know why. The wall was not necessarily built for protection at that time. Archaeologists have speculated that the objective might be to restrict access in and out of the city, enabling the Roman rulers and their successors to collect taxes. Another possibility is that the wall might have been constructed to impress, but floating more than a million Kentish ragstones ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Lea Valley Regeneration - London Olympic Games 2012
By popular demand from our Facebook group members, today's walk looks at the development of the Olympic Park being built to house the Olympic Games in 2012.
The name of the games might be London 2012, but the 'name of the game' is regeneration. Regeneration of this brownfield part of East London which has cast eyes in the direction of Canary Wharf to the South and the City to the West, but had not itself benefited from investment despite the death of its tra ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Riverside Walk past London's Historic Docks and Quays
The new London Overground service started on 23 May 2010 in East London. All the trains are smart, new air-conditioned stock with plenty of room. The track looks new and the stations are magnificent. I have been waiting to do a walk through Rotherhithe and all along the river around Surrey Docks and Quays until the new line is open, making it easy to reach the walk using the Jubilee Line and changing onto the Overground at Canada Water. London Overground is fully integrated ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Borough - Secret Southwark Part II
Part I of the walk finished either at London Bridge or at Borough Underground stations. From there, we travel one or two stops to the south. From Borough, take the Northern Line one stop to Elephant & Castle. From London Bridge take the Bakerloo two stops to its destination. Elephant & Castle is in zones 1 and 2.
Elephant & Castle is rarely visited by tourists. Indeed most Londoners are only familiar with the two roundabouts forming a major junct ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Borough - Secret Southwark Part I
This is the start of a two part walk through The Borough - a Londoner's familiar name for Bankside and Southwark on the South Bank of the Thames.
The walk will continue from Elephant & Castle where Part II can be reached from Borough or London Bridge Underground stations. This part starts at Waterloo - a large Underground station in Zone 1 on the Bakerloo, Jubilee, Northern (Charing Cross branch) and Waterloo and City lines. Exit from the station via the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Transport Update and Latest NewsEvery now and then, there are changes in public transport that warrant a news podcast to bring you up to date on ticketing, Oyster cards and how to buy them from abroad, getting to and from London's 5 airports and so on.
There are now more than 60 live walks available for free download. On the show notes page here at londonwalks.org you will find links to some of the web pages I mentioned in the recording.
So far the podcast has achieved over 740,000 downloads covering between 60 and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Transport Update and Latest News
Every now and then, there are changes in public transport that warrant a news podcast to bring you up to date on ticketing, Oyster cards and how to buy them from abroad, getting to and from London's 5 airports and so on.
There are now more than 60 live walks available for free download. On the show notes page here at londonwalks.org you will find links to some of the web pages I mentioned in the recording.
So far the podcast has achieve ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Riverside Walk from Chiswick to Kew Gardens
This walk is in three distinct parts.
We leave Gunnersbury Underground and Overground Station (District Line Zone 3) and walk through the pleasant streets of Chiswick. There are two main barriers to cross. One is the Great West Road, a busy road leading to the M4 and the West. We cross it near the Chiswick Roundabout at a pedestrian underpass. The other barrier is the main railway line which we can cross by footbridge. From here, there are a couple of narrow ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Riverside Walk from Chiswick to Kew GardensThis walk is in three distinct parts.
We leave Gunnersbury Underground and Overground Station (District Line Zone 3) and walk through the pleasant streets of Chiswick. There are two main barriers to cross. One is the Great West Road, a busy road leading to the M4 and the West. We cross it near the Chiswick Roundabout at a pedestrian underpass. The other barrier is the main railway line which we can cross by footbridge. From here, there are a couple of narrow alleyways leading down to the Th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fire and Pestilence - a Pepys Walk through the City of LondonThe famous diary of Samuel Pepys was started 350 years ago this month and continued until May 1669. It was a personal, family diary but as Pepys worked for the King it contained momentous national events such as the restoration of the monarchy, the coronation of Charles II, the plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of London in 1666. Pepys recorded everything - his neighbour's sewage and his ineffectual groping of young women he met in church.
This walk covers the area destroyed by the Great ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fire and Pestilence - a Pepys Walk through the City of London
The famous diary of Samuel Pepys was started 350 years ago this month and continued until May 1669. It was a personal, family diary but as Pepys worked for the King it contained momentous national events such as the restoration of the monarchy, the coronation of Charles II, the plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of London in 1666. Pepys recorded everything - his neighbour's sewage and his ineffectual groping of young women he met in church.
This walk covers t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Trollope WalkAnthony Trollope
Born 1815 at 6 Keppel St, Campden Town near British Museum WC1. IN 1882 when staying at 14 Suffolk St SW1 quarrelled so violently with group of noisy street musicians that he had a stroke and died a few days later in Welbeck St (near Portman Sq). So very much a Londoner.
Became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era.
His first major success came with The Warden (1855) รข the first of six novels set in the fi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Trollope Walk
This walk passes places where the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope lived, and places referred to in his many novels. It starts at Baker St and ends in Trafalgar Square.It is a long walk - about 4.3 miles in all. If you are interested in Victorian literature, you should find the readings fascinating. If not, the walk is a splendid one, passing through fine and varied neighbourhoods, grand and royal buildings, and wonderful shopping of all kinds.If you want to read Trollop ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Lore and the Profits - a stroll through Covent GardenA bonus walk lasting about an hour. It's for when you have time for a stroll and find yourself in the vicinity of Holborn or Covent Garden.
We start at Holborn Underground on the Central and Piccadilly Lines in Zone 1. After acending the long escalator, go straight through the barriers out to Kingsway. Turn right and cross over High Holborn to see the 1950's tram underpass which unaccountably remains in Southampton Row. Then cross over and take a seat in the Sicilian Ave precinct (picture ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Lore and the Profits - a stroll through Covent Garden
A bonus walk lasting about an hour. It's for when you have time for a stroll and find yourself in the vicinity of Holborn or Covent Garden.
We start at Holborn Underground on the Central and Piccadilly Lines in Zone 1. After acending the long escalator, go straight through the barriers out to Kingsway. Turn right and cross over High Holborn to see the 1950's tram underpass which unaccountably remains in Southampton Row. Then cross over and take a seat in the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Tide Race - Hammersmith to Barnes along the ThamesAnother classy riverside walk which covers part of the Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race course but in the reverse direction. The walk starts at Hammersmith Underground (District & Circle Lines) or Hammersmith (Hammersmith & City Line). You can also reach the start point in the Broadway shopping centre on any bus passing through or terminating at Hammersmith Bus Station which is located over the Underground. The start is in Zone 1 but we end our walk at Barnes Bridge in Zone 3 so a Z ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Tide Race - Hammersmith to Barnes along the Thames
Another classy riverside walk which covers part of the Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race course but in the reverse direction. The walk starts at Hammersmith Underground (District & Circle Lines) or Hammersmith (Hammersmith & City Line). You can also reach the start point in the Broadway shopping centre on any bus passing through or terminating at Hammersmith Bus Station which is located over the Underground. The start is in Zone 1 but we end our walk at Barnes Bridge ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The 9 Bridges WalkIs this the last audio London Walk? If so, I have saved one of the very best for last. The starting point is the Tower of London. You can reach it on the District & Circle to Tower Hill (zone 1) or the Docklands Light Railway to Tower Gateway. The walk is about 3.7 miles. The finishing point is by the tower of Big Ben opposite Westminster Underground on the Jubilee Line (zone 1).
What is so good about this walk? Firstly, the views. Spectacular throughout its length. From the Tower of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The 9 Bridges Walk
Is this the last audio London Walk? If so, I have saved one of the very best for last. The starting point is the Tower of London. You can reach it on the District & Circle to Tower Hill (zone 1) or the Docklands Light Railway to Tower Gateway. The walk is about 3.7 miles. The finishing point is by the tower of Big Ben opposite Westminster Underground on the Jubilee Line (zone 1).
What is so good about this walk? Firstly, the views. Spectacular throughout ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | BrixtonThis walk starts near Brixton Underground (Victoria Line Zone 2). It is part of a walk originally suggested to me by Lambeth Council. brixton is at the heart of Lambeth. Here is the famous Brixton Market with its Afro Caribbean flavour, its eating places and food from many parts of the world, and its unique and noisy cosmopolitan atmosphere.
At the start of the walk is the Ritzy Cinema, the Tate Library named after the sugar magnate of Tate & Lyle fame, Lambeth Town Hall, the famous F ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Brixton
This walk starts near Brixton Underground (Victoria Line Zone 2). It is part of a walk originally suggested to me by Lambeth Council. brixton is at the heart of Lambeth. Here is the famous Brixton Market with its Afro Caribbean flavour, its eating places and food from many parts of the world, and its unique and noisy cosmopolitan atmosphere.
At the start of the walk is the Ritzy Cinema, the Tate Library named after the sugar magnate of Tate & Lyle fame, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Aristocratic and Royal SohoThis is the second Soho walk I have done. The first walk proved to be the most popular of all the London Walks in terms of the number of downloads. This walk follows a different route, and focuses on the history of this cosmopolitan area rather than its present day appearance. Surprisingly there is a great deal of history as you will discover, starting with the laying out of the various streets in the 17th and 18th centuries to the events of more modern times.
The starting point is Totten ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Aristocratic and Royal Soho
This is the second Soho walk I have done. The first walk proved to be the most popular of all the London Walks in terms of the number of downloads. This walk follows a different route, and focuses on the history of this cosmopolitan area rather than its present day appearance. Surprisingly there is a great deal of history as you will discover, starting with the laying out of the various streets in the 17th and 18th centuries to the events of more modern times.
... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Westminster and Victoria
This fascinating glimpse of the seat of government and the church starts at the foot of the tower of Big Ben as the clock chimes the hour. To get here, take the Jubilee Line to Westminster (Zone 1) and cross the road as you exit the Underground station.
We start with a history of Westminster Palace and Westminster Hall, and then walk south down Parliament Square with the Houses of Parliament on our left hand side. Opposite is the small church of St Margaret ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Westminster and VictoriaThis fascinating glimpse of the seat of government and the church starts at the foot of the tower of Big Ben as the clock chimes the hour. To get here, take the Jubilee Line to Westminster (Zone 1) and cross the road as you exit the Underground station.
We start with a history of Westminster Palace and Westminster Hall, and then walk south down Parliament Square with the Houses of Parliament on our left hand side. Opposite is the small church of St Margaret's which sits incongruously in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | PiccadillyWalking through London is a delight at any time. Combine a stroll with some of the capital's finest buildings, most fashionable shops, grand facades, processional routes, history, royalty and life and you have a winner every time. This walk should only take about an hour. It starts at Trafalgar Square and finishes at Piccadilly Circus not far away.You can reach Trafalgar Square by taking the Bakerloo or Northern Lines to Charing Cross. Take the exit marked Trafalgar Square and start by Nels ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | PiccadillyWalking through London is a delight at any time. Combine a stroll with some of the capital's finest buildings, most fashionable shops, grand facades, processional routes, history, royalty and life and you have a winner every time. This walk should only take about an hour. It starts at Trafalgar Square and finishes at Piccadilly Circus not far away.You can reach Trafalgar Square by taking the Bakerloo or Northern Lines to Charing Cross. Take the exit marked Trafalgar Square and start by Nels ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | PiccadillyWalking through London is a delight at any time. Combine a stroll with some of the capital's finest buildings, most fashionable shops, grand facades, processional routes, history, royalty and life and you have a winner every time. This walk should only take about an hour. It starts at Trafalgar Square and finishes at Piccadilly Circus not far away.You can reach Trafalgar Square by taking the Bakerloo or Northern Lines to Charing Cross. Take the exit marked Trafalgar Square and start by Nels ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Royal Albert to King George V - a river walk in East London
Walking through Docklands in the East of London might not be everyone's idea of a grand day out. Regeneration is all around, and even some parts that have been redeveloped are not attractive. I am including this walk because it traverses an important part of London. One cannot appreciate the development of the capital without appreciating that London Docks which was the powerhouse of the capital's trade until the 1960's has changed completely. There are flats - many much mo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Prince Regent to King George V - a river walk in East LondonWalking through Docklands in the East of London might not be everyone's idea of a grand day out. Regeneration is all around, and even some parts that have been redeveloped are not attractive. I am including this walk because it traverses an important part of London. One cannot appreciate the development of the capital without appreciating that London Docks which was the powerhouse of the capital's trade until the 1960's has changed completely. There are flats - many much more affordable tha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Royal Albert to King George V - a river walk in East LondonWalking through Docklands in the East of London might not be everyone's idea of a grand day out. Regeneration is all around, and even some parts that have been redeveloped are not attractive. I am including this walk because it traverses an important part of London. One cannot appreciate the development of the capital without appreciating that London Docks which was the powerhouse of the capital's trade until the 1960's has changed completely. There are flats - many much more affordable tha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Brompton
This walk starts only a few minutes from where I live, and should be easy to finish in 1 hour 15 minutes. It starts at Queensway Underground (Central Line Zone 1) and finishes beside Harrods where you can take the Piccadilly Line from Knightsbridge Station.
Queensway was a fashionable shopping district in the Edwardian era. Whiteleys department store was the largest shop. It was built in 1867 and received Queen Victoria's royal warrant in 1896. The present b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | BromptonThis walk starts only a few minutes from where I live, and should be easy to finish in 1 hour 15 minutes. It starts at Queensway Underground (Central Line Zone 1) and finishes beside Harrods where you can take the Piccadilly Line from Knightsbridge Station.
Queensway was a fashionable shopping district in the Edwardian era. Whiteleys department store was the largest shop. It was built in 1867 and received Queen Victoria's royal warrant in 1896. The present building dates from 1911. It cea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | BromptonThis walk starts only a few minutes from where I live, and should be easy to finish in 1 hour 15 minutes. It starts at Queensway Underground (Central Line Zone 1) and finishes beside Harrods where you can take the Piccadilly Line from Knightsbridge Station.
Queensway was a fashionable shopping district in the Edwardian era. Whiteleys department store was the largest shop. It was built in 1867 and received Queen Victoria's royal warrant in 1896. The present building dates from 1911. It cea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | London's Transport
It is almost 2 years now since I recorded two episodes of the London Walks podcast. One episode gave advice on how to get to and from London's airports. The other concerned how to get around London by public transport. These episodes are now out of date, and so the time has come to record them once again. This time I am putting all the information in one place, and in only 40 minutes offering a lot of information in one place, from a local as it were to someone who may be u ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | London's Transport It is almost 2 years now since I recorded two episodes of the London Walks podcast. One episode gave advice on how to get to and from London's airports. The other concerned how to get around London by public transport. These episodes are now out of date, and so the time has come to record them once again. This time I am putting all the information in one place, and in only 40 minutes offering a lot of information in one place, from a local as it were to someone who may be unfamiliar with th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | London's Transport It is almost 2 years now since I recorded two episodes of the London Walks podcast. One episode gave advice on how to get to and from London's airports. The other concerned how to get around London by public transport. These episodes are now out of date, and so the time has come to record them once again. This time I am putting all the information in one place, and in only 40 minutes offering a lot of information in one place, from a local as it were to someone who may be unfamiliar with th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Spitalfields
Spitalfields does not sound an attractive place, but the area East of the City takes its name from, a priory hospital known as St Mary's Spital founded in the late 12 th Century. Most of the area was built after the great fire of London in 1666 after the plague the previous year caused such devastation to the local population who were traders and market stall holders.
Nowadays Brick Lane is a centre of Bangladeshi culture beloved of Londoners for the h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SpitalfieldsSpitalfields does not sound an attractive place, but the area East of the City takes its name from, a priory hospital known as St Mary's Spital founded in the late 12 th Century. Most of the area was built after the great fire of London in 1666 after the plague the previous year caused such devastation to the local population who were traders and market stall holders.
Nowadays Brick Lane is a centre of Bangladeshi culture beloved of Londoners for the hundreds of restaurants that li ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SpitalfieldsSpitalfields does not sound an attractive place, but the area East of the City takes its name from, a priory hospital known as St Mary's Spital founded in the late 12 th Century. Most of the area was built after the great fire of London in 1666 after the plague the previous year caused such devastation to the local population who were traders and market stall holders.
Nowadays Brick Lane is a centre of Bangladeshi culture beloved of Londoners for the hundreds of restaurants that li ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doing the Lambeth Walk
"The Lambeth Walk" is a song from the 1937 musical Me and My Girl (with book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose and music by Noel Gay). The cockney lyrics are simple:
Any time you're Lambeth Way
Any evening, any day
You'll find us all
Doing the Lambeth Walk. Oi!
Every little Lambeth pal
With her little Lambeth pal
You'll find 'em all
... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doing the Lambeth Walk"The Lambeth Walk" is a song from the 1937 musical Me and My Girl (with book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose and music by Noel Gay). The cockney lyrics are simple:
Any time you're Lambeth Way
Any evening, any day
You'll find us all
Doing the Lambeth Walk. Oi!
Every little Lambeth pal
With her little Lambeth pal
You'll find 'em all
Doing the Lambeth Walk. Oi!
Lambeth is the area south of the River Thames around Waterloo Station where we start ou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doing the Lambeth Walk"The Lambeth Walk" is a song from the 1937 musical Me and My Girl (with book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose and music by Noel Gay). The cockney lyrics are simple:
Any time you're Lambeth Way
Any evening, any day
You'll find us all
Doing the Lambeth Walk. Oi!
Every little Lambeth pal
With her little Lambeth pal
You'll find 'em all
Doing the Lambeth Walk. Oi!
Lambeth is the area south of the River Thames around Waterloo Station where we start ou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Notorious London - a walk for adults only
Robbery, murder, prostitution, fraud, bankruptcy - it's all here in this walk. Once again we return to the Fleet River, all but invisible today but an erstwhile open sewer flowing through the most desperate neighbourhoods of London.
The walk starts at Blackfriars Underground (Circle & District and Overground zone 1) and ends at Farringdon (Metropolitan, Circle, Hammersmith & City and Overground zone 1). There is not much left to see of the places des ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Notorious London - a walk for adults onlyRobbery, murder, prostitution, fraud, bankruptcy - it's all here in this walk. Once again we return to the Fleet River, all but invisible today but an erstwhile open sewer flowing through the most desperate neighbourhoods of London.
The walk starts at Blackfriars Underground (Circle & District and Overground zone 1) and ends at Farringdon (Metropolitan, Circle, Hammersmith & City and Overground zone 1). There is not much left to see of the places described, so you will have to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | |