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The Secret London Village of Primrose Hill
Joined 2023
Primrose Hill is one of London's most desirable areas but it was born with the noisy grimy railway in the early 19th century. The streets show industrial solutions by brilliant Victorian engineers and the hard labour of tough 'navvies' who built them. On this walk you'll see railway-industry landmarks and pastel-painted streets that came later, in one of which lives Paddington Bear. Also a beautiful stretch of the Regent's Canal, and from the top of the hill itself great views over London.
Itinerary
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Meeting Point
Chalk Farm Station or your hotel
Chalk Farm Station on the Northern Line
Meeting point
Bridge over railroad tracks
View of Camden Goods Yard/Railway history
Primrose Hill path to top
View south over London
Regent's Canal t
The towpath from Prince Albert Road
Cumberland Turn Basin
Ironwork bridge, floating restaurant, houseboats
Towpath to Gloucester Road
Leaving the canal
The Engineer pub and railway history landmarks
Stationary Winding Engine Vaults, Horse Tunnel
Railway workers' cottages and Artists' studios
Old piano factory
Chalcot Square and Chalcot Crescent, where Paddington Bear lives
Pastel-painted houses including the one where Paddington Bear lives
Home of Friederich Engels
Former Chalk Farm Tavern and the High Street
End of the walk
Ending Point
Regent's Park Road - the High Street of Primrose Hill
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Inclusions & Exclusions
Guide fee
Anything else but the guide fee
Tour Important Information
This is a walking tour, wear shoes with good soles to walk on grass and possible mud as well as streets.
Wear good walking shoes
Important message from the supplier
I'm a guide for walking tours; I don't have a car.
Cancellation Policy
- Free cancellation - 8 days prior to meeting time
- 50% Refund - 3 to 7 days prior to meeting time
- No Refund - Within 2 day(s) prior to meeting time
Joined 2023
About Tour Guide Laura A.
I'm a qualified London guide now offering History Walks with Gender, Sex and Class. Walks focus on the lives of poorer working people rarely described in historical accounts except as criminals or objects of charity. When there’s an opportunity to talk about women I’ll take it, and social class is always on the table. I've been a writer, researcher and critical historian all my life, and I've been a Londoner since the 1960s, although I've left to live in other towns and countries. Author of Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry, for many years I've focused on getting the stories out of women and others marginalised because of being poor, foreign, ‘different’ or doing jobs some folks think are Wrong, in the present and in the past. I'm known as The Naked Anthropologist.
$450/ per group
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