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I've been lumbered with the responsibility of planning a family East End walk this summer.
The participants will be a mixed group, consisting of people I've known all my life and others I've only recently become acquainted with online. Some of them are reasonably familiar with east London, others, coming from as far afield as L. A., are less so.
The theme of the walk is ostensibly family history, and that pretty much determines the general route, but I'd like to broaden it to include the history of the East End more widely (know what I mean?).
The family in question have links to:
Bethnal Green,
Spitalfields,
Whitechapel,
St George in the East,
Shadwell
and Wapping.
More specifically, the following streets are of significance to the family's history:
Angel Alley
Backchurch Lane
Berner Street (school)
Blue Anchor Yard
Bluegate Fields (Dellow Street)
Breezers Hill, Pennington Street
Brick Lane
Brook Street, Ratcliff
Commercial Road (East End Maternity Hospital)
Commercial Street (Christchurch)
Cornwall Street
Flower and Dean Street
George Yard (Buildings)
Hanbury Street
Half Nichol Street
Lavender Place, Pennington Street
Little Collingwood Street
London Street, Ratcliff
Mary Ann Street
Mayfield's Buildings (Shovel Alley)
Old Gravel Lane
Pinchin Street
Raine Street
Swedenborg Street
Thrawl Street
Wentworth Street
I'd like to start the walk at Liverpool Street Station and end up on the Wapping foreshore for a bit of mudlarking, thereafter retiring to The Town of Ramsgate for a noggin or two.
It's the specifics of the route that are bothering me. If it were entirely up to me, I'd somehow cover the whole lot, not giving a bugger about how long it took, how much doubling back was involved or how many times the boring modern day Highway had to be crossed, but I suspect that even the Brits in the group will be expecting something a bit more 'interesting'.
Suggestions for 'unmissable' (and photogenic) tourist highlights along the route would be greatly appreciated. (The JTR museum is an obvious shoo-in.)
The participants will be a mixed group, consisting of people I've known all my life and others I've only recently become acquainted with online. Some of them are reasonably familiar with east London, others, coming from as far afield as L. A., are less so.
The theme of the walk is ostensibly family history, and that pretty much determines the general route, but I'd like to broaden it to include the history of the East End more widely (know what I mean?).
The family in question have links to:
Bethnal Green,
Spitalfields,
Whitechapel,
St George in the East,
Shadwell
and Wapping.
More specifically, the following streets are of significance to the family's history:
Angel Alley
Backchurch Lane
Berner Street (school)
Blue Anchor Yard
Bluegate Fields (Dellow Street)
Breezers Hill, Pennington Street
Brick Lane
Brook Street, Ratcliff
Commercial Road (East End Maternity Hospital)
Commercial Street (Christchurch)
Cornwall Street
Flower and Dean Street
George Yard (Buildings)
Hanbury Street
Half Nichol Street
Lavender Place, Pennington Street
Little Collingwood Street
London Street, Ratcliff
Mary Ann Street
Mayfield's Buildings (Shovel Alley)
Old Gravel Lane
Pinchin Street
Raine Street
Swedenborg Street
Thrawl Street
Wentworth Street
I'd like to start the walk at Liverpool Street Station and end up on the Wapping foreshore for a bit of mudlarking, thereafter retiring to The Town of Ramsgate for a noggin or two.
It's the specifics of the route that are bothering me. If it were entirely up to me, I'd somehow cover the whole lot, not giving a bugger about how long it took, how much doubling back was involved or how many times the boring modern day Highway had to be crossed, but I suspect that even the Brits in the group will be expecting something a bit more 'interesting'.
Suggestions for 'unmissable' (and photogenic) tourist highlights along the route would be greatly appreciated. (The JTR museum is an obvious shoo-in.)
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