SECRET LONDON: The Greenwich Foot Tunnel - Walking beneath the ThamesSimon O'HaganIndependent on Sunday
The path now leaves the riverside again taking you past The Brunel Museum on your right. The museum has a quirky exterior, it was the former pumphouse, used until 1971 to pump excess water from theThames Tunnel. Now if you really fancy stopping somewhere for a quick libation, make it the...
Overcoming the desire to stick around for longer, we said our goodbyes and passed through Sonning, crossing the bridge over the Thames and walking along the Thames Path, the mud returning with a vengeance. Rob finds a set of car keys which have a phone number on, so he gives them a ca...
Today that latter route is used by Thameslink trains, whilst the line from here to Moorgate is disused, as it was not possible to keep the link when the platforms were lengthened here for 12 car trains. Across the road from the old station building is a new one which services as the ...
Originally I crossed the Thames via the Gravesend to Tilbury ferry (actually I didn’t I just ended on one side and resumed on the other). But with the ferry no longer running and the new England Coast Path (now the King Charles III coast path) now going as far up the Thames as ...
Back in the city, we had just enough time to visit Fells Point, a historic port area full of brick row houses and cobbled streets.We were on a mission for crabs, the seafood Maryland is famous for. Our goal took us to the Thames Street Oyster House where we loaded up on crabcake sa...
Around Brentford, the heavens open. I've been under the weather for a while, but now I find myself harassed by it, as driving rain turns me into a sodden mass. Cue a bleak stretch along the Grand Union Canal and up to the River Brent. Intrepid walkers and homesick Brummies can pursue...
“I am a deep believer in what Carl Jung called synchronicity, the power of connections between things which are linked by forces we don’t understand,” said Geller, who lives with his wife Hanna in a manor house in the Berkshire countryside, beside the Thames. “And there are many ...
At the end of the tunnel-like close, turn right & you’ll now find yourself by the Tyne itself. Continue forward along the twisting turning path until it breaks out into a tad more spacious greenerie.You will soon come across a building on the right. This is the old fire station with...