Evening London Walk - 10 Stories
Wed 29th Sep 2021
Walk Details:
An urban walk in London stopping for 10 Stories covering London's military history. Finish at the george pub (listed coaching inn) and home from London Bridge
Entry Details:
Walk Report
10 Stories, Wednesday 29th September 20219 walkers, 8 miles - leader Adam Pode
Seven people assembled at Bank station for a walk whose titular stories were all connected with London in the Second World War. No sooner had we set off from the Central Line ticket hall when we had the first, a remembrance plaque at the station for 56 who died in a German raid, and for the next two hours we were treated to further tales of death and destruction at various points in the city, taking in a number of plaques, memorials and structures still showing the effects of the Luftwaffe 80 years on. But on a fine evening this was far from being as grim a walk as it might sound, with two more joining en route as we meandered our way from Bank to London Bridge seeing things we've often passed in the streets in a new light, and safely getting through the gloom in Vauxhall's estates to the final wartime story at Christ Church Southwark, before a night-time stroll along the Thames passing a cannon captured at Trafalgar to the end at the historic George Inn.
Report by Gavin Fuller; Photographs by Gavin Fuller and Elizabeth Moore
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