Sunday 11 March 2012

A Deptford Walk

I am in the process of creating some books about London - possibly taking the form of walks though the city - at the moment they are just a jumble of pages.
Areas looked at include:
Southwark
Lambeth
Greenwich
Shoreditch
Bermondsey
City of London
Borough
My most recent one is possibly going to focus on Deptford going up towards the old Surrey Docks - looking at the following things: St Nicholas Church and skulls, site of Payne's wharf - only the old river facade left, Watergate Street down to the river (complete with resident saxophonist), cobbled Borthwick Street (once Butcher's Row), Convoy's Wharf, tree from John Evelyn's Sayes Court, the Princess of Wales pub 1883, the old Storehouses from the King's Royal Dockyard, the steps where Sir Francis Drake was knighted, old cannons along the Thames front, entrance to the Royal Victoria Victualling Yard complete with more scary skulls, old boundary stone, gauge house, hydraulic lock Greenland Lock, lock keeper's office, hydraulic capstans, old crane, gasometer... ETC.

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