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High Lines 7. Limehouse Curve
This is one in a series of posts about possible High Lines for London. See the full list here including the one with the best potential. The Limehouse Curve lies just east of Limehouse station in east...
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High Lines 8. Barbican Highwalks
This is one in a series of posts about possible High Lines for London. Look out for the next one tomorrow. The Barbican is a huge 1950s/60s housing development in the “raw concrete” Brutalist style...
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High Lines 9. Pedways of the City
This is one in a series of posts about possible High Lines for London. Look out for the next one tomorrow. Complementary to the Highwalks of the Barbican, the concept (originally called Pedways by the...
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High Lines 10. Borough Market Bridge
This is one in a series of posts about possible High Lines for London. Look out for the next one tomorrow. [Update (2016) – the main (southern) bridge featured here is already in use by trains now.]...
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High Lines 11. Garden Bridge
This is one in a series of posts about possible High Lines for London. Look out for the final one – my big idea for a High Line that I think has real potential – tomorrow. Well, this is a...
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The Camden Line
Over the last two weeks I have featured eleven potential London High Lines (see all the previous ones here) – all of them could be interesting place but none of them quite have the potential to be a...
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A Glimpse into Walthamstow Wetlands
I was on a guided tour of the Walthamstow Wetlands today, a huge area of 10 historic reservoirs that has long been the preserve of fishermen, birdwatchers and water company workers, that is about to...
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Promenade Plantée
As part of a brief trip to Paris, I recently walked the western part of the Promenade Plantée raised linear park or “rail trail”, in the southern part of the city. The Promenade Plantée, also known as...
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Reopening of the Painted Hall in Maritime Greenwich
This Saturday, the 300-year-old Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, reopens to the public, after a two-year, £8.5 million restoration. To help preserve the painted walls and...
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The Withey Beds
A short visit to a local nature reserve between Moor Park and Watford, just north-west of London, proved an unexpected atmospheric delight, as can be seen from these photos, taken just before sunset...
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