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Quirky London 22: George Inn

Posted on 22 February 20102 April 2021 by Rob Ainsley

Where is it? One of the quirkiest, and best, pubs to cycle to in London is the George Inn in Southwark, just south of London Bridge. What’s quirky about it? The George is just about the city’s only surviving coaching inn, and only one with surviving galleries: the capital’s pubs were virtually all refurbished from…

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Quirky London 21: A bit of Cambridge

Posted on 21 February 20102 April 2021 by Rob Ainsley

Where is it? Ely Place (right), parallel to Hatton Garden off Holborn. What’s quirky about it? This immediate area is an exclave of Cambridgeshire in London, technically part of the Diocese of Ely. Exclaves are fascinating – Gibraltar, that bit of Russia round Kaliningrad, the Old Soke of Peterborough, and this. Down Ely Court, a…

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Quirky London 20: The centre is a horse’s bum

Posted on 20 February 20102 April 2021 by Rob Ainsley

Where is it? Trafalgar Square, at the top of Whitehall, at the statue of Charles I, just under his horse’s bum. What’s quirky about it? It’s London’s very centre: the point to which a ‘distance to London’, notionally, is measured. It’s the origin of the national roadmap; England’s kilometre-zero. The point used to be marked…

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Quirky London 19: Follow a ley line

Posted on 19 February 20102 April 2021 by Rob Ainsley

Where is it? Trafalgar Square, Strand, and ultimately to Arnold Circus. What’s quirky about it? It’s Strand Ley, one of the many lines of mystical forces across London and Britain identified by Alfred Watkins. He noticed that whenever there were two points of great, ancient spiritual significance – Glastonbury Tor, say, or Lord’s – they…

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Quirky London 18: DIY Skyride

Posted on 18 February 20102 April 2021 by Rob Ainsley

Where is it? Constitution Hill and The Mall, by Buckingham Palace. What’s quirky about it? Every Sunday, these two grand thoroughfares are closed to traffic. So, if you enjoyed the London Skyride last year, you can recreate it without the 65,000 pesky people on bikes getting in your way, or the marshals telling you not…

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Quirky London 17: The Old Kent Road tank

Posted on 17 February 20102 April 2021 by Rob Ainsley

Where is it?Between Page’s Walk and Mandela Way, off the northern end of Old Kent Road, on a triangular patch of grass. What’s quirky about it? It’s a real T-34 tank. Part of the fleet used to crush rebellion in Prague in 1968, it was bought and installed by a local property developer in frustration…

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Quirky London 16: The Camberwell Submarine

Posted on 16 February 20102 April 2021 by Rob Ainsley

Where is it? Akerman Rd, between Myatts Fields and Mostyn Gardens, Camberwell. What’s quirky about it? It’s just the protrusion into our universe of a boiler room thing below the road, but it looks just like a submarine. They should paint it seakelp green, and put a periscope on it. Actually, inside it looks pretty…

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Quirky London 15: Cycle inside a canal

Posted on 15 February 20102 April 2021 by Rob Ainsley

Where is it? Running south into Peckham centre. What’s quirky about it? Not just a canal towpath, this is cycling along the canal itself: the old Surrey Canal, which finally evaporated in the 1960s. Why bike there? It’s a neat traffic-free route to Peckham… in the day. Probably best avoided at night, unless you have…

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Quirky London 14: Ride a free ferry

Posted on 14 February 20102 April 2021 by Rob Ainsley

Where is it? Woolwich, out east along the Thames path. What’s quirky about it? That rare thing, a free ride: as the link between the North and South Circular, the ferry shuttling over the Thames between North and South Woolwich has to cost you nothing. So there is, after all, such a thing as a…

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Quirky London 13: Crossing the meridian

Posted on 13 February 20102 April 2021 by Rob Ainsley

Where is it? Greenwich observatory, in the park overlooking the old naval college – but possibly not quite where you think. What’s quirky about it? Your chance to straddle the meridian line. Here, balanced on a knife edge, are the two hemispheres: on one side the mystic east of Woolwich and Dartford and beyond; on…

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