Event Details

City Walk

Time: November 27, 2011 from 10:30am to 4pm
Location: Central London / City
Website or Map: http://www.bowespark.org.uk/g…
Phone: 020 8881 5195
Event Type: walk
Event Added By: Catharine Perry
Latest Activity: Nov 24, 2011

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Event Description

A walk from Holborn to the City, going off the beaten track to see some well known and not so well known features of this area of London. "Holborn to the City"      (meet at Bounds Green station at 10.30am)

Dave Flett will lead us "off the beaten track" to show us some well known and not so well known features of this area of London, including, amongst other things......

A long abandoned tunnel.
A walk through the British Museum (and out the back door).
In the footsteps of Virginia Woolfe and the Bloomsbury Set.
Some Georgian shops
A secret graveyard.
A park which adults can only enter if accompanied by a child
The last refuge of Marxism in London
A city gate
Postman's Park with its memorials to 'ordinary' heroes and heroines
A relic of the Blitz
A bit of city wall 

Various opportunities for food and drink (and toilets) en route

Estimated duration, including a lunch stop, approx 4 hours.  (Being a city walk there will be plenty of transport options for those who do not wish to do the entire walk.)

Meet at Bounds Green station at 10.30am to take the Piccadilly Line to Holborn.

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