In message <01c886d8$f2b70e00$LocalHost@default>, Michael R N Dolbear
privacy.net> writes>
>Ian Jelf
bluebadge.demon.co.uk> wrote
>>> Well, this is British Tourism Week and a whole host of London Blue
>Badge
>> Guides are providing free walks on various "Great British" Themes
>around
>> the capital.
>>
>> I - for my sins - am doing "Great British Villains", a walk around
>> Whitechapel and Bethnal Green in the steps of the Kray Twins tomorrow
>
>> afternoon and - although transport interest is limited to the Bethnal
>
>> Green Tube Disaster, anyone from utl coming along would be moist
>welcome
>> and please do say "hello".
>>
>> The walk starts at Whitechapel Underground Station at 2.00pm and ends
>
>> back there around 4.00pm.
>
>I thank you Ian for a very interesting walk as do, I am sure, the 50
>others who came.
You are very welcome and it was good to meet you.
We were around the 60 mark, by the way, which was rather more than I'm
used to dealing with.......
>Your reference to the afternoon queues at the municipal baths in the
>days where everyone worked a half day Saturday reminded me that the
>timetable of the Waterloo&City may still show this historical influence
>by closing early on Saturday.
Yes, why *does* that persist on the W&C? LU must have noticed
relatively few bankers on Saturday mornings by now. And not all of
them are wearing Bowlers these days, either.
>In my personal transport diary today was my first ever trip East of
>Aldgate
Interesting, isn't it??!!
> (except one visit to QMC at Mile End) on the H&C or District. I
>also observed several persons trying to work out from the posters what
>"replacement bus" meant in the context of a journey south of the river
>from Whitechapel.
It was ever so, even when the ELR *was* running, in my experience.
Whitechapel seemed always to have more than its fair share of confused
people!
I've now been asked to do another of these walks for *next* year.
Nothing like getting in ahead of schedule, is there?
