It’s Walk London’s Winter Wanders Weekend on 26 and 27 January. The free guided Lea Valley walk starts at Tottenham Hale Station at 11am on Saturday 26 January. The six mile walk goes south to Three Mills and then down the Limehouse Cut to the Thames. No booking is required. Expect it to take about […]

Brocket Hall, which has the River Lea flowing through the grounds, is offering a ‘Valentine’s Package’ bed and breakfast weekend just after St Valentine’s Day. The Daily Telegraph has a feature with plenty of Brocket history. The mansion is now mainly used as a conference centre with occasional film shoots. The one night with dinner […]

Today, Old Twelfth Night 19 January 2013, there will be wassailing the apple trees in the Old Orchard behind the Ferry Boat Inn in Ferry Lane N17 9N just east of Tottenham Lock. Weather permitting morris dancing is planned from 6pm. The organisers say: “Children very welcome! Wear warm clothing, and bring hooters, pots & pans, drums etc.” This could […]

The Fish & Eels at Dobb’s Weir, downstream of Rye House, has been closed today. The waterside inn is having a refurbishment and will reopen at noon on Thursday 22 November.

King Harold’s Day at Waltham Abbey is on Saturday 13 October. This is the eve of Harold’s death at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066. The last Saxon king is buried at Waltham Abbey where he had prayed between the Battles of Stamford Bridge and Hastings. It has been suggested that the coffin […]

The gate was unlocked for the day My Open House visit choice on Saturday was Cody Dock on the River Lea, downstream of Three Mills. This was my first visit although I had often looked through the locked gate at the dock entrance. It’s at the end of an open riverside path running south from […]

Today Friday 14 September is Holy Cross Day and the weather looks good for this evening’s now traditional procession at Waltham Abbey. The church is said to stand on the site where oxen carrying a marble cross from Somerset in 1035 stopped and refused to move. Tonight the long walk from Montacute will be staged […]

Delighted to have been a guest at Luton Library yesterday during its 50th anniversary celebrations. It was too hot for walking so being in a darkened room was cool. And the the overhead projector worked -just! That was  a relief. Having visited the Olympic Park on Friday it was a good moment to review the […]

I shall be giving a talk about the Lea Valley Walk at Luton Central Library on Saturday 8 September at 2pm. It will be  a chance to discuss the valley’s future following  the Olympic coverage which has made the route so famous. All are welcome.  

There is a chance to look ahead and find out how it will feel to follow the Lea Valley Walk alongside the Olympic Park in 2024. Architects Allies and Morrison, who have been involved in plans for the Olympic Park area since 2003, are displaying drawings, models and photographs illustrating their work on masterplans and […]