Sights alongside Route.

 

You can find a detailed itinerary on this map:

 

LAMBETH

Imperial War Museum

Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park

Captain Blight house

Morley College

 

SOUTHBANK

The Africa Centre

Neo-Bankside

Tate Modern

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

Site of the Rose Theatre

Original site of the Globe

Southwark Bridge

 

CITY OF LONDON

Vintners Hall. Ancient guild.

St.James Garlickhythe Church

St.Michael Paternoster-Royal Church

Sweetings. A classic Fish restaurant. 

Guidhall. City of London local authority offices. Museums and Roman rests open to the public

St.Lawrence Jewry Church

Glass Fountain. By Allen Davis. First Modern Street artwork in the City of London.

St.Mary Aldermanbury Churchyard. The church is not here anymore but...

William Shakespeare's Bust, on the Heminges and Condell Memorial.

Wood Street Station. Of architectural interest.

St.Alban's Church Tower. Another long time gone church.

St.Mary Staining Churchyard. 

Pewterers Hall. Ancient guild. 

(Brewers Hall)

(Site of the Cooper's Hall)

Noble Street: Ruins of the Roman Wall  and Fort & Shakespeare lived in a house on this site

Museum of London

Site of the Roman Fort

St.Alphage Church ruins

The Minutaur. Artwork by Michael Ayrton

Salters Hall. Ancient guild headquarters

The Barbican. Arts Centre and residential

St.Giles Cripplegate Church

Site of Whitbread Brewery

Golden Lane: Banksy street-art works. Protected!

Site of Library

Fortune St: Site of the Fortune Theatre, Elizabethan playhouse, contemporary of Shakespeare's Globe

Site of Bullion dealer: beautiful frieze

 

CLERKENWELL

Hercule Poirot residence

The Charterhous

Smithfield market

Museum of the Order of St.John, at the Old Gate of the Priory

(Jerusalem Tavern, old style tavern)

(originally designed dwelling,

former address of Janet Street-Porter)

(Goldsmiths Craft School)

Priory's Church site

The Dovetail PH (Belgian beers)

The Crown Tavern

Marx Memorial Library

The Old Sessions Court building

"The" Well that gives the name to the district

St. James Church

Controversial contemporary building designed by  architect Amin Taha

Site of the House Of Detention

Health Centre designed in the 1930s (Modern style) by Berthold Lubetkin

Michael Palin Foundation

Exmouth Market. Street food market. Cafes, restaurants, shops.

The church of the Holly Redemeer

Joe Grimaldi birthplace

Wilmington Square: Georgian

Merlin Street Housing. Site of the Merlin's Cave

St.Helena Gardens.Little Community garden

Lloyd Baker Estate. Beautiful Regency architecture.

Myddelton Passage: view of the site of the

New River Company HQ

Claremont Square: Georgian architecture & a Harry Potter Location!

 

ISLINGTON

South-African ANC offices in London

during apartheid years

Chapel Market. Street market during the week. Farmers market on Sunday.

Culpepper Community Garden

Royal Agricutural Hall

Upper Street Islington: shops, restaturants, cafes...

Islington High Street & Camden Passage:

charming village setting

Site where the New River meets the Regent's Canal

St.Mary's Church
Little Angel Puppet Theatre

Cross Street

Gibson, Milner, Cloudesley: Islington Garden Squares

The Regent's Canal

 

SOMERSTOWN

Kings Cross Central & Coal Drops Yard: Residential, Offices and Shopping Centre

St.Pancras International Station

St.Pancras Old Church, and churchyard

Francis Crick Institute of Bio-medicine

The British Library

Chalton Street Market. Regular street market on Fridays.

LCC 1920s social housing

 

BLOOMSBURY

Cartwright Gardens. Beautiful Georgian crescent

St.Georges's Gardens. Churchyard.

The Foundling Museum. Site Thomas Coram's orphans shelter

The Brunswick Centre, shopping and residential development

Tavistock Square & Gordon Square. Georgian. Members of the Bloomsbury Group resided here

University of London headquarters.

Russell Square gardens

British Museum

 

COVENT GARDEN

Freemasons Hall

Royal Opera House

 

Waterloo Bridge. The Thames

 

SOUTHBANK

The Southbank Centre. Arts and performing centre.

County Hall. Former base of Greater London's government

Jubilee Gardens

The London Eye

"Banksy Tunnel"