Monthly Archives: October 2019

332. LONDON ON FOOT. Royal Borough of Greenwich.

331. LONDON ON FOOT. Croydon. I’ve an odd history with this small town in south London, but I can’t shake how its visual character reminds of Kubrick’s film, A Clockwork Orange.

330. LONDON ON FOOT. Spitalfields, Royal Borough of Tower Hamlets. Spitalfields takes its name from St. Mary’s Spittal, founded in 1197. A spittal is a place of refuge for the sick or the site of a hospital, but the word also refers to a shelter built along roads in 16th century Scotland to protect people from wolf attacks.

329. LONDON ON FOOT. Royal Borough of Greenwich. Canary Wharf in the BG. “Canary Wharf is the secondary central business district of London, and is a wider electoral ward of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, encompassing part of the neighbouring Isle of Dogs.