her_welshness
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I promised dellzegg to punt this up
Led by the Legend That Continues...Bermondsey Bill.
The Lost Rivers of London returns in 2012 with The Neckinger and The Walbrook, arguably not rivers at all, perhaps just tidal ditches swept by the Thames, remembered today as they mark the boundary between two boroughs and two City wards.
We follow the route of the Neckinger through the marshy swamps, and having paid homage the Havelock Ellis on our Effra ride, we stop on the site of the School for the Indignant Blind, to remember the freaks of the "show of Bethlehem” and the inmates of the Lock Hospital, while we look at what the Elephants Backside replaced.
We recall how William Blake saw Angels on our Peck expedition, and we visit the home from where he was chased by scaly monsters, imagine how Canute invaded in 1016, remember Chaplin and Faraday, and wonder why Joanna packed a box that requires 24 bishops to open it, and remains sealed to this day. With Broom men and Mumpers we visit a Roman Temple, a medieval abbey, look at the 18th and 19th Century food, car & railway industry and its’ legacy today, question what happened to the siege of Gibraltar. We meet the Thames again at Folly Ditch, where Bill Sykes fell to his death in 1837 while we nibble a Cream Cracker as Pirates hang.
Our Walbrook expedition takes us from Knights, Templar’s and holy grails to first aiders and London’s’ original Theatre land and to where Thomas Hood was taught by the Misses Hogflesh. We pass the site of Broad Street, that forgotten terminus demolished in 1984 and follow the Walbrook through Broadgate circus and onto marshy Moorfields, which was dry ground until the Romans decided to build a wall around London, a second visit to Bedlam, records exist that record the Walbrook flowing under the Bank of England, although we will have to pass around, along Lothbury, perhaps a tributary, and on to Bank where John Stow records the Langbourne joining the Walbrook and we fly beneath The Grocers Hall and St Mildred Poultry.
The Walbrook then takes us through the thriving heart of the medieval trading city, where we revisit those lost trades that provided so much to modern London and its’ livery companies, and wonder at how the river reappeared briefly in June 1999.
Finally we arrive at Dowgate, once a Steel Yard, where Poulson bribed the Railway and end at Walbrook Wharf where we meet the Thames, and perhaps hitch a lift downstream to mucking…………….
Oh, and I should add, plenty more stinkpipes!
Meet Bermondsey Square 10 am.
Led by the Legend That Continues...Bermondsey Bill.
The Lost Rivers of London returns in 2012 with The Neckinger and The Walbrook, arguably not rivers at all, perhaps just tidal ditches swept by the Thames, remembered today as they mark the boundary between two boroughs and two City wards.
We follow the route of the Neckinger through the marshy swamps, and having paid homage the Havelock Ellis on our Effra ride, we stop on the site of the School for the Indignant Blind, to remember the freaks of the "show of Bethlehem” and the inmates of the Lock Hospital, while we look at what the Elephants Backside replaced.
We recall how William Blake saw Angels on our Peck expedition, and we visit the home from where he was chased by scaly monsters, imagine how Canute invaded in 1016, remember Chaplin and Faraday, and wonder why Joanna packed a box that requires 24 bishops to open it, and remains sealed to this day. With Broom men and Mumpers we visit a Roman Temple, a medieval abbey, look at the 18th and 19th Century food, car & railway industry and its’ legacy today, question what happened to the siege of Gibraltar. We meet the Thames again at Folly Ditch, where Bill Sykes fell to his death in 1837 while we nibble a Cream Cracker as Pirates hang.
Our Walbrook expedition takes us from Knights, Templar’s and holy grails to first aiders and London’s’ original Theatre land and to where Thomas Hood was taught by the Misses Hogflesh. We pass the site of Broad Street, that forgotten terminus demolished in 1984 and follow the Walbrook through Broadgate circus and onto marshy Moorfields, which was dry ground until the Romans decided to build a wall around London, a second visit to Bedlam, records exist that record the Walbrook flowing under the Bank of England, although we will have to pass around, along Lothbury, perhaps a tributary, and on to Bank where John Stow records the Langbourne joining the Walbrook and we fly beneath The Grocers Hall and St Mildred Poultry.
The Walbrook then takes us through the thriving heart of the medieval trading city, where we revisit those lost trades that provided so much to modern London and its’ livery companies, and wonder at how the river reappeared briefly in June 1999.
Finally we arrive at Dowgate, once a Steel Yard, where Poulson bribed the Railway and end at Walbrook Wharf where we meet the Thames, and perhaps hitch a lift downstream to mucking…………….
Oh, and I should add, plenty more stinkpipes!
Meet Bermondsey Square 10 am.
