Category: Walk reports
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Saturday 2nd Limehouse to Greenwich (Linear)
North Thames Path followed by circular walk exploring Greenwich and Greenwich Park. Leader will meet walkers at 10am at Limehouse station (zone 2) on DLR from Bank. Walk concludes at Greenwich stn.(zone 2/3). Stunning views of London from the Observatory and Pointer Hill. Suggested lunch at the Trafalgar Tavern, Greenwich. Distance 8 miles, EX 162.…
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5th January London Water & Steam Museum. Walk to Hammersmith
Ten Polyramblers spent a very informative morning looking at the history of our water supplies and marvelling at the huge pump engines which were used to distribute water throughout London.Two of our ramblers also went to the musical museum next door for a guided tour!By the time we started the afternoon walk our numbers had…
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Postal Museum and Mail Rail visit
On the Saturday after Christmas twenty Poly Ramblers were booked in for a ride on Mail Rail, the 6.5 mile underground railway which carried post between Paddington and Liverpool Street from 1927 to 2003. Thirteen of the group turned out early for a stroll around historic Clerkenwell. This took us past a house that once…
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Sunday 23 December 2018: London Cathedrals Walk and Carol Service
On a grey Sunday before Christmas, 13 Polyramblers met at Victoria tube station for a walk passing four cathedrals and attending a carol service at a fifth. The first was Westminster Cathedral, or the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the largest Catholic church building in England and Wales and the…
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SUNDAY 16th: CLUB XMAS LUNCH: FREEMASONS ARMS, COVENT GARDEN
It snowed the day before the Christmas lunch but, thankfully, this bad weather was in Scotland and the north of England and it did not reach the South East. Around 20 Polyramblers met at Hyde Park Corner tube station for a pre-prandial walk. We passed under Wellington Arch to go into Green Park, went to the Bomber…