A round walk from Hackney to Bermondsey via The St. James of Bermondsey in St James Road SE16, The Draft House in Tower Bridge Road SE1, Tate Modern Members Bar at Bankside SE1, The Jerusalem Tavern in Britton Street EC1, The Bricklayer’s Arms in Charlotte Road EC2, The Birdcage in Columbia Road E2, The Royal Oak in Columbia Road E2 and The Dove in Broadway Market E8 at a total distance of 14.06 miles.

10.10.16

Bless him, my dear friend, who thought to show me the city by walking me from north to south of the great river itself. But as so often happens his head was turned by the most base of establishments and any attempt at cultural diversions and temperance would not be assuaged until he had drunk his fill of the ales found therein those most distracting of places. ‘Tis pity that it remains thus with he for I know him a good man at heart but for that demon that lives inside him and though, yes, I have on occasion been know to imbibe myself, in this instant made do with only a little port wine [taken with restraint] and was so able to ensure a safe return to my lodgings. Alas the same could not be said for he, who troubled himself to fall to sleep on the Metropolitan Railway and completed his evening at the end of the line in Richmond!

Diary of The Reverend Henry Turnbull   October 1868

attrib: Thomas Bell’s ‘The Turnbull’s of Suffolk’ pub 1949 by David Bell