Three times a year Walk London arrange a weekend of guided walks along various parts of the seven Strategic Routes in the Capital. Winter Wanders took place on the last weekend on January and I opted for a guided walk from Tower Bridge to Mile End, led by the chairman of the River Thames Society. You will see from the photos it was a brilliant sunny day, what you can't see if the wind chill factor, it was very, very cold.
We followed the northern bank of the Thames, via St Katherine's Dock, Wapping to Limehouse Basin, where we paused for a break. Then along the Regent's Canal to Mile End.
Interesting things I learned; berths in St Katherine's Dock were shaped to fit the sterns of ships; there is a church somewhere in East London with a very large red Madonna on top; the canal isn't very deep and there are ramps build along it so that horses could get out if they fell in.
Tower Bridge
St John's Wapping
View to Canary Wharf
Prospect of Whitby
Large Red Madonna
Limehouse Basin
Regent's Canal
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