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Posts Tagged ‘trafalgar’

Walking from Trafalgar Square to Margate – without crossing a road

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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The history of 5 square metres in Trafalgar Square

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 […]

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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

What happened when Mr Tate didn’t meet Mr Lyle

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 […]

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