London Walking Tour 7

This walk starts at Lambeth Bridge and finishes at Blackfriars Bridge. The seventh in a series of free video guides to help tourists enjoy London.

The address of the map for this walking tour is https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lC_I5EbEooxWXuBewxtJQ8miT1f-rdXN&usp=sharing

Clicking the markers along the route gives access to more detailed information.

Transcript:

This seventh stage of this walking tour of London starts at Lambeth Bridge following the River Thames via the South Bank to Blackfriars Bridge. There is link to a map of the route below this video.

Cross Lambeth Bridge towards the Tudor bricked entrance of Lambeth Palace, official residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Church of England.

William Bligh, captain of The Bounty until his crew mutinied, is buried next door at St Mary at Lambeth Church which has been converted into a garden museum. The restaurant there is said to be popular with people who work and live nearby.

A detour to the Imperial War Museum involves a 10 minute stroll along the road running past the church away from the river.

This walk continues along the riverside path to Westminster Bridge passing St Thomas's Hospital, provider of health care since the twelfth century and home to a museum dedicated to Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing.

Over the water it's impossible to miss the Houses of Parliament rebuilt in the Gothic style after a fire in 1834.

The lion on Westminster Bridge comes from the Lion Brewery demolished in 1949 and subsequently replaced by the Royal Festival Hall.

First building along the South Bank is County Hall. Once headquarters of the Greater London Council, much of it has now been given over to entertainment where crowds flock to visits the London Sea Life Aquarium and London Dungeon.

Riverside, London Eye, formerly the city's highest viewing point, rotates about once every thirty minutes.

At ground level, the Ministry of Defence and Whitehall Court buildings dominate the far bank.

After Hungerford Bridge, which carries trains into nearby Charing Cross Station, entertainment becomes arguably more sophisticated in the form of the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room. Their Brutalist architectural style was often preferred by governmental bodies because of lower construction costs.

Opposite, Cleopatra's Needle fronts Shell Mex House and The Savoy, the first hotel to install electric lifts.

Detour onto Waterloo Bridge, where views of the city are reckoned to be the best from ground level, before continuing past the National Theatre and London Television Centre, where many of the company's programs are produced.

Just round the corner food outlets and shops line Gabriel's Wharf, the most significant for owners of tired feet being the London Bicycle Tour Company which has an impressively large selection of bikes for hire.

A little further on the Oxo Tower was designed with windows forming the logo of a company product to circumvent local laws forbidding illuminated sky line advertising.

After thoughtfully named Sea Containers House take the steps by the Doggetts Coat and Badge pub, named after the world's oldest rowing race, onto Blackfriars Bridge.

Running parallel, Blackfriars station also spans the river.

The next stage of this walking tour of London returns along the Victoria Embankment before turning inland at the Houses of Parliament towards Buckingham Palace. Click the link to see the video.

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