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I occasionally get people from on here asking about the various walks I
do around London and have to explain that I don't do "public" ones, only ones arranged for private groups. Well, this is British Tourism Week and a whole host of London Blue Badge Guides are providing free walks on various "Great British" Themes around the capital. I - for my sins - am doing "Great British Villains", a walk around Whitechapel and Bethnal Green in the steps of the Kray Twins tomorrow afternoon and - although transport interest is limited to the Bethnal Green Tube Disaster, anyone from utl coming along would be moist welcome and please do say "hello". The walk starts at Whitechapel Underground Station at 2.00pm and ends back there around 4.00pm. I stress again that it's FREE (ie there's nothing in it for me or any of my colleagues, other than to promote London and Britain) and you can read more about it and many other walks (which might interest some of even more) at: http://www.blue-badge-guides.com/ITGD2008-london.html or http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/events...ls/Walk+free+i n+London/article.do -- Ian Jelf, MITG Birmingham, UK Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk |
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Ian Jelf (Ian Jelf ) gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying: anyone from utl coming along would be moist welcome Ewww. |
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In message , Adrian
writes Ian Jelf (Ian Jelf ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: anyone from utl coming along would be moist welcome Ewww. Oops! Mind you, given the weather forecast....... -- Ian Jelf, MITG Birmingham, UK Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk |
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On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:05:43 +0000, Ian Jelf
wrote: I - for my sins - am doing "Great British Villains", a walk around Whitechapel and Bethnal Green in the steps of the Kray Twins tomorrow afternoon and - although transport interest is limited to the Bethnal Green Tube Disaster, anyone from utl coming along would be moist welcome and please do say "hello". Bugger. This would be on the day that I arranged weeks ago I'd be out of London ![]() |
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Adrian typed
Ian Jelf (Ian Jelf ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: anyone from utl coming along would be moist welcome Ewww. It's been a wet weekend... -- Helen D. Vecht: Edgware. |
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![]() Ian Jelf wrote Well, this is British Tourism Week and a whole host of London Blue Badge Guides are providing free walks on various "Great British" Themes around the capital. I - for my sins - am doing "Great British Villains", a walk around Whitechapel and Bethnal Green in the steps of the Kray Twins tomorrow afternoon and - although transport interest is limited to the Bethnal Green Tube Disaster, anyone from utl coming along would be moist welcome and please do say "hello". The walk starts at Whitechapel Underground Station at 2.00pm and ends back there around 4.00pm. I thank you Ian for a very interesting walk as do, I am sure, the 50 others who came. Your reference to the afternoon queues at the municipal baths in the days where everyone worked a half day Saturday reminded me that the timetable of the Waterloo&City may still show this historical influence by closing early on Saturday. In my personal transport diary today was my first ever trip East of Aldgate (except one visit to QMC at Mile End) on the H&C or District. I also observed several persons trying to work out from the posters what "replacement bus" meant in the context of a journey south of the river from Whitechapel. -- Mike D |
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In message 01c886d8$f2b70e00$LocalHost@default, Michael R N Dolbear
writes Ian Jelf wrote Well, this is British Tourism Week and a whole host of London Blue Badge Guides are providing free walks on various "Great British" Themes around the capital. I - for my sins - am doing "Great British Villains", a walk around Whitechapel and Bethnal Green in the steps of the Kray Twins tomorrow afternoon and - although transport interest is limited to the Bethnal Green Tube Disaster, anyone from utl coming along would be moist welcome and please do say "hello". The walk starts at Whitechapel Underground Station at 2.00pm and ends back there around 4.00pm. I thank you Ian for a very interesting walk as do, I am sure, the 50 others who came. You are very welcome and it was good to meet you. We were around the 60 mark, by the way, which was rather more than I'm used to dealing with....... Your reference to the afternoon queues at the municipal baths in the days where everyone worked a half day Saturday reminded me that the timetable of the Waterloo&City may still show this historical influence by closing early on Saturday. Yes, why *does* that persist on the W&C? LU must have noticed relatively few bankers on Saturday mornings by now. And not all of them are wearing Bowlers these days, either. In my personal transport diary today was my first ever trip East of Aldgate Interesting, isn't it??!! (except one visit to QMC at Mile End) on the H&C or District. I also observed several persons trying to work out from the posters what "replacement bus" meant in the context of a journey south of the river from Whitechapel. It was ever so, even when the ELR *was* running, in my experience. Whitechapel seemed always to have more than its fair share of confused people! I've now been asked to do another of these walks for *next* year. Nothing like getting in ahead of schedule, is there? -- Ian Jelf, MITG Birmingham, UK Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk |
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