June 7th, 2015 
Vic Keegan CYCLING gets enormous publicity in London. Walking is hardly mentioned at all yet London is arguably the most walkable capital city in the world as I have discovered doing my – only slightly barmy – walks from the centre of Trafalgar Square without crossing a road. Among destinations so far I have got as far […]
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Comments Off on Walking from Trafalgar Square to Margate – without crossing a road September 23rd, 2014 Vic Keegan Is there any other part of London that packs so much history into so small a space? The few square metres on which the statue of Charles 1 stands in Trafalgar Square is chiefly known today as the central point of London from which all distances are measured. It is also the oldest surviving reminder […]
Posted in City, hidden, London, My London Tags: charing, Charing Cross, Charles 1, Charles 11, square, trafalgar, Westminster, Whitehall, Wrenn Comments Off on The history of 5 square metres in Trafalgar Square April 2nd, 2014 Vic Keegan The Tate and Lyle refinery at Silvertown It started as one of my walks from Trafalgar Square without crossing a road. Taking up where I left off last time at the Millennium Dome I headed past Antony Gormley’s beautiful Quantum Cloud sculpture with its spasmodically visible man (himself) which provides an unintended counter point to the […]
Posted in City, gems, London, My London Tags: ecology, foot, Lyle, park, Path, Silvertown, square, sugar, Tate, tate gallery, Thames, Thames Barrier, trafalgar, tunnel, without crossing a road, Woolwich Comments Off on What happened when Mr Tate didn’t meet Mr Lyle
