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A  gang of four walk  from  Angel Tube to Farringdon on  14th July 2025. A warm, sunny t day

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Route of the walk

Angel Tube Station

The Co-Op bank

The Old Red Lion Theatre

A posh Starbucks!

Looking for Scottish  eaters

Funeral Parlour

The Harlequin

Quicker and cheaper than drinks in the interval at  Sadlers Wells

Shakespeare's Head pub

Actors busts in the unmanned Sadlers Wells Cafe. i.e. Disserted

Who?

St Johns Street

Dame Alice Owen pub

City St Georges, University of London

The Islington Museum, local dresses

Milk Cart

1950's Kitchen

Grimaldi the famous local clown

Art work

Sadlers Wells and the New River

 

Interactive Artwork

Local Industry?

"Cactus" for a coffee

Attack! Spiky fruit from a Plane tree

Yellow Psiduck???

Rowan Berries

A School trying for the Chateau Look

Off Skinner Street

Play Ground

A tough climb

Palm Fronds

Spinning Bowl ride

B&H

B&H Theatre  Stage Door

Finsbury Old Town Hall rear

Paused for a tale in front of the London Archives, a vast centre for research into the City Archives

 

Up several floors

Spitfire over St Pauls

War time bomb damage mapped

War Time posters. The displays on the day were London Tramways, Wartime London and Shakespeare's London

Bomb Damage

Part of Shakespeare's  London map

Various attempts at drawing the Bard

A "First Folio" behind glass

London tramways poster

Propaganda

Community photos

The Seal of the LCC (RIP)

"Exmouth Market"

 

Exmouth Arms for Lunch

The bar

Table Decoration

The "Waterman"  The architect designed the east elevation more like curtain walling than traditional load-bearing masonry.

Leafy Garden

Candles

"Great"

Marion Anderson - A legendary African-American singer of operatic and concert repertoire, contralto who opened doors for subsequent generations of Black American singers.

  • Orpheus H. Fisher (m. 1943-1985)

  • 1923

 

Marion Anderson pub

Herself

That School again

Leading in

The Horse Shoe pub

Three Kings pub

To the Crypt

St James Clerkenwell

East Window

Towards the Organ

Lights

Up to the Gallery

Who's Royal Arms?

On Clerkenwell Green

Elizabeth Line Entrance to Farringdon Station

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